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The Wiz

Cast

Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross View All

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Sidney Lumet (Director), Joel Schumacher (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 24th, 1978

Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes

A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.

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Takoma11
Instead of feeling eager, I found myself feeling impatient.

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Gideon58
Judy Garland was 17 when she played Dorothy and Stephanie Mills was in her early 20's when she created the role of Dorothy in the stage version of The Wiz, but the role had to be re-thought when Diana Ross pretty much purchased the role of Dorothy for herself, so for the film, Dorothy has become a 3....