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The Wiz, 2024

The Wiz, 2024

Shows · The Wiz · Marquis Theatre, 2024

Revival BroadwayMarquis Theatre 142 performances1 Tony Awards

The run closed August 18, 2024

Opened
April 17, 2024
Closed
August 18, 2024
Performances
142
Previews
Unknown

Of the 188 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and carry a performance count, this is the 38th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Wiz 2 more that season

1975 Majestic Theatre Original · Geoffrey Holder (Gilbert Moses uncredited) 1,672 perf.
1984 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival · Geoffrey Holder 13 perf.

Who was in it25 named

Cristina Raé
Avilon Trust Tate
Keenan D. Washington
Alan Mingo Jr.
Nadja Hayes
Destini Hendricks
Allysa Shorte

25 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Schele Williams
Choreographer
JaQuel Knight

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awardscategories not held

1 win from 1 nomination. We don't know which categories.

Recordings 7 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Wiz, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the context of contemporary African-American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974, at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore, and moved to Broadway's Majestic Theatre with a new cast on January 5, 1975. The 1975 Broadway production was nominated for eight Tony Awards winning seven including Best Musical. It was an early example of Broadway's mainstream acceptance of works with an all-Black cast. It has had revivals in New York, London, San Diego…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 7 recordings of The Wiz document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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