EXCLUSIVE: The Wiz was a wow — that’s what you read on every bus and Broadway poster back in the mid-1970s (the ubiquitous pitch line came from Marilyn Stasio’s review in the long-gone Cue magazine). An urbane R&B reinterpretation of L. Frank Baum’s tale of Dorothy’s tornado’ed trip to the Land of Oz, her companions the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tinman; her benefactress Glinda and her nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the West, not to mention old flim-flam himself…![]()
