Cultural Appropriation/Whitewashing
[While the “The Wiz” has traditionally been performed with an all-black cast, Speer said she hopes to make her rendition a multi-cultural experience, bringing in actors from a wide array of backgrounds.]-Press Statement from the show.A professional Company is doing a production of The Wiz. Lees-McRae Summer Theatre in NC. They decided that the "traditionally all-black" (because somehow using the word traditionally means optional) show needed to have white people in it. All over. Not just Ense...
