The Dark Wiz company ( DWC ) wants access to all of them for unknown reasons, but four of the Soul Dolls go missing.

* 1974 – nominated for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress – Musical (" The Wiz ").

Other productions for which he created flying sequences included I Love Lucy, Men Into Space, The Garry Moore Show, Hanna Barbera's Jack and the Beanstalk with Gene Kelly and The Flying Nun on television ; Fantastic Voyage, Funny Girl, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Hair and The Wiz in movies ; It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman, Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, The Who's Tommy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America, The Lion King, Disney's Aida, and Dracula, the Musical on Broadway ; and touring productions of the Ice Capades.

For the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, Dorothy ( originated in The Wiz by Stephanie Mills ) is reimagined as a young African-American girl, though most of her other characteristics, as well as the general plot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, remain intact.

Mills ' career took a rise when she portrayed Dorothy in an African American adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz entitled The Wiz, where she began dating Michael Jackson.

* The Wizard: The king's royal wielder of magic, sometimes nicknamed " Wiz ".

* In Italy, The Wizard of Id is known as Mago Wiz ( Wiz The Sorcerer ) and has been published with great success in the comics magazines Il Mago and Linus, and in the science fiction magazine Urania, plus several hardcover editions also by Mondadori.

* Aries Spears-Lil ' Wiz, Wizard Kelly's son.

* January 5-The Wiz, a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.

The resulting film version of The Wiz also starred former Motown star Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, Richard Pryor as the Wizard, jazz singer Thelma Carpenter as Miss One and Lena Horne as Glinda the Good Witch.

The program documented the journey of students at Westfield High, a predominantly white school in Virginia that is staging The Wiz – the black musical version of The Wizard of Oz.

In 1975 Holder won two Tony Awards for direction and costume design of The Wiz, the all-black musical version of The Wizard of Oz.

* The Proud Family ( 2001 – 2004 ) as Wizard Kelly / Sir-Paid-A-Lot / Li ' l Wiz Jr.

As mentioned above, he is not an expert on Oz, but this statement made by Guph once again foreshadows a much later cinematic rendition of Glinda, in the film version of the Broadway musical The Wiz in which Glinda ( played by Lena Horne ) is responsible for the twister that brings Dorothy's house to Oz and sets all subsequent events into motion.

In the Broadway musical The Wiz, Glinda is the Good Witch of the South, as she appears in the Oz books.

In 1978, it was featured in the film version of The Wiz as the home of its version of the Tinman, and its size compared to the rest of Oz raised to enormous proportions.

In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as her house was not deposited directly in front of it ; in the novel and the 1939 film, it is.

* Wiz Khalifa, is from Pittsburgh.

The story was altered for the 1978 Motown / Universal film adaptation of The Wiz, in which Dorothy ( portrayed by Diana Ross ) is a shy 24-year-old schoolteacher who has never traveled far beyond the neighborhood she grew up in.

* In the 1978 film The Wiz, the titular " Wiz " ( played by Richard Pryor ) is Herman Smith, a failed politician from Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This " Wiz " is a pathetic " phony " through and through.

At the start of California Roll Wine is feeling his age and recovering from a mid-life crisis when he is invited to Silicon Valley by Alex Wiznitsky, a young genius known as the Wiz, who wants him to become head of security for Tulip, a computer company that rose from backstreet obscurity into the Fortune 500 in only three years.

The boss is a wizard ( appropriately named " Wiz ").

* In The Wiz ( 1975 ), The Wicked Witch Of The West is given the name Evillene ( portrayed by Mabel King ).

* In the Broadway musical, The Wiz, the Wicked Witch of the East is named Evvamene (" Ever mean ") and terrorizes the Munchkins.

" Wiz ", as he is nicknamed, was educated at the Long Bay College and can generate a fair amount of turn and he appears to be able to bowl a good line and length.

Brian Zembic, nicknamed the Wiz, was born, is a magician and high-stakes gambler specializing in blackjack and backgammon.

In the 1978 film The Wiz, the Good Witch of the North is portrayed as a magical numbers runner called Miss One ( Thelma Carpenter ), reflecting the association of the numbers game with the lower-class urban areas from which the film draws much of its imagery.

The goal is for the player to win in a race against other players and win credits ( known as Wiz ) which can be spent on various power-ups and aesthetic items.

She is a 2008 graduate of Deer Park High School, where she appeared in school productions of " The Wiz ," and " Footloose.

* The Wiz, a 1974 musical retelling of L. Frank Baum's story

* The Wiz ( film ), 1978 blaxploitation film based on the musical

She performed the number " Home " from the musical The Wiz in a high school play.

Vandross wrote " Everybody Rejoice " for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz and appeared as a choir member in the movie.

The rock musical soon moved in other directions with shows like The Wiz, Raisin, Dreamgirls and Purlie, which were heavily influenced by R & B and soul music.

Along with other musicals like Purlie ( 1971 ) and Raisin ( 1974 ), The Wiz was a breakthrough for Broadway, a large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-black cast.

The musical toured the US in 1976 and during the tour, Kenneth Kamal Scott replaced Andre DeShields as the Wiz, Stephanie Mills was replaced by Renee Harris, who was herself replaced in 1978 by Deborah Malone and subsequently Dorothy was portrayed by Ren Woods for the Los Angeles run at the Ahmanson Theater, where the 19-year-old made a big impression on Hollywood, casting her in the Milos Forman film HAiR.

After graduating, he began working in musical theater, appearing in The Wiz ( 1977 ), before getting his break with the 1982 off-Broadway production Little Shop of Horrors.

In January 1975, she played the role of Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West in the all-black cast of the Broadway musical The Wiz.

Russell put these talents to use in the 1978 musical The Wiz as the Tin Man.

Sinitta began in show business by appearing in the musical The Wiz and the movie Shock Treatment released on Hallowe ' en 1981, followed by starring in the West End musicals Cats, Little Shop of Horrors, Masquerade and Mutiny!

Following her dismissal, Peniston took playing as Glinda the Good Witch in a theatrical production of musical play The Wiz.

Following the commercial and critical failure of Motown's eighth film, a 1978 adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz starring Diana Ross and the Jackson 5's Michael Jackson, the company focused more closely on television.

Vocals were by Frank Floyd, who was a pit singer in the Broadway musical The Wiz.

However, her professional singing career started during 1976 when she obtained a job as a backing vocalist for the national touring company of the musical drama The Wiz.