The Wiz Live! (2015) on Netflix
TV-G20151h 51mAdventureFamilyFantasy
A tornado carries Dorothy Gale from home into Oz. Addaperle sends her to find the Wiz, and a Scarecrow, a Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion join her.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.1/102,705 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
With her dog Toto, Dorothy Gale is carried off by a tornado and set down in Oz, where Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, tells her the Wiz of the Emerald City can help her. On the road she meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion, and the four travel on together. A Bouncer keeps the gate at the entrance to the Emerald City, and a Kalidah battle and a field of poppies stand between them and the Wiz. Their quest is to defeat Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, who rules the Winkies and will hear no bad news.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Wiz Live! (2015)
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- The Wiz Live! was the first live TV program in US history to carry audio description for blind or visually impaired viewers.
- Shanice Williams of New Jersey won the role of Dorothy through an open audition announced on Today in August 2015; she had appeared in local productions of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and West Side Story and was nominated in 2014 for a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award for best leading actress.
- The Wiz Live! restored "You Can't Win", a number cut from the Broadway musical and first used in the 1978 film as sung by Michael Jackson, giving it the Scarecrow's slot in place of "I Was Born on the Day Before Yesterday".
- Cirque du Soleil Theatrical co-produced The Wiz Live! and provided special acrobatic performers for three sequences: "Tornado", "You Can't Win" and "Funky Monkeys".
