Shows · The Wiz · Majestic Theatre, 1975
The Wiz, 1975
Opened January 5, 1975
Closed January 28, 1979
1,672 performances
Original
Broadway
1 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 11th longest run.
Other stagings of The Wiz 2 more
Who was in it79 named
Phylicia Ayers Allen
Lettie Battle
Danny Beard
Phillip Bond
Leslie Butler
Pi Douglass
Ronald Dunham
Wendy Edmead
Frank Floyd
Rodney Green
Sam Harkness
Eugene Little
Eleanor Mccoy
Frances Morgan
Nancy
Joni Palmer
John Parks
Howard Porter
Jozella Reed
Kenneth Scott
Evelyn Thomas
Andy Torres
Carl Weaver
Ralph Wilcox
Thea Barnes
Shirley Brown
Edye Byrde
Albert Fann
Keith Harris
Irene Reid
Siri Sat Nam Singh
Toney Watkins
James Wigfall
Charles Lavont Williams
Ruth Brisbane
Pat Estwick
L Michael Gray
Demarest Grey
Carl Hall as The Wiz
Dyane Harvey
Lois Hayes
Paul Hoskins
Kevin Jeff
Kwame Johnson
Michael Leslie
Claudia Lewis
Esther Marrow
Alvin Mcduffie
Ella Mitchell as Evillene
Alma Robinson
Renee Rose
Janyse M Singleton
Alwin Taylor
Bruce Taylor
Chuck Thorpe
Toto
Gayle Turner
Westy
Victor Willis
Renn Woods as Dorothy Gale
Gregg Baker as The Lion
Ann Duquesnay as Glinda
Vivian Bonnell as Addaperle
Creative team
- Director
- Geoffrey Holder, Gilbert Moses
- Choreographer
- George Faison
- Producer
- Ken Harper
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
Recordings 1 released while this run was on
6 more exist for other runs of this show: see The Wiz for all of them.
Around this production
The Wiz, an African American adaptation of The Wizard of Oz with a popular score, debuts at the Majestic Theater and runs for 1,672 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 29
Charlie Smalls: “Home” from The Wiz (1975), about which Sondheim said he could never write a song so sentimental and do it well;
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 517Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.