Come On And Ease ON DOWN THE ROAD! Can You Feel A Brand New Day!!!!! — Page 2

I think Tiffany Evans would be a gr8 Dorothy. She was the young girl that won Star Search a few years ago. I think she was on the Macy's Parade also.

Gr8 voice.

Hey I just found her site. She has some audio clips to listen to..Weird to hear her belt out And I'm telling you, but she pulled it off.

Updated On: 11/26/05 at 10:56 AM

marcy harriell?
~ i think she had a phenomenal voice
but i don't *see* her as dorothy...
~ how about an unknown?
that would be great - a new discovery.

And age is just a number. Some of us remain ageless!
I don't care what you think. I can pass for a woman in my early 20's why? I have more energy than women half my age.
I have passion and its contagious.
On my 40th birthday I was proofed.

Updated On: 11/26/05 at 11:17 AM

Ted Ross, Mabel King and Lena Horne were the only people that made this disaster of a movie slightly watchable for me, at times. Miss Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell and Richard Pryor were all wrong for this movie. 'Brand New Day' was a well choreographed number and 'No Bad News' was pretty much what King had done on Broadway but I put this movie in the same class as "A Chorus Line" and "Paint Your Wagon" as horrible transfers from the musical stage to film.

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Corine2---If only casting directors and cynical audience members felt the way you do.

They do not.

pab---I agree with you except for Nipsey Russell. He and Lena Horne were the "new" bright spots in a film that had no others. Nispey was a total surprise. Ted Ross and Mabel King were welcome sights from the Broadway show, but somehow nowhere near as effective as they were on stage. Mabel had way too much makeup on. You couldn't even find her inside that get-up. It could have been Rosemary Clooney in there, for all we know.

I have no other kind words to say about the film, as it was a creative and financial disaster. The stage show is completely different in characters and concept.

I would love to see Andre De Shields play the Wiz again. He's still working up a storm and since there really is no age limit on his character... why not? What a great tie-in to a role he created over 30 years ago!

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Sueleen, why don't you just post your own opinion on the topic at hand? We can all make our own judgements about each other's opinions as we see fit.

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Sorry,
I don't love WICKED. I liked Wicked, but the Wiz has soul.
And I did not mean I liked it more than the film (The Wizard of Oz)
I like it much more than Wicked.

Well, WICKED is not a "version" of THE WIZARD OF OZ. It is an original story that uses some of the characters from the Baum books. There is quite a difference. So perhaps you should change your original post to say THE WIZ is better than WICKED. Say what you mean.

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The Wiz is better than Wicked!
Just my opinion. Sorry Winnie.

"The Wiz is better than Wicked!"

On that point we are in total agreement.

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~ lena horne was "glinda" in the film
"the numbers lady" in the film was "miss one"

Mabel King - Evilene

She was the mother on the TV show What's Happenin'in the 70s.

Updated On: 11/26/05 at 05:24 PM

Dee Dee Bridgewater being on the The Wiz original cast album made me seek out her other (later) work, and I 'm glad I did.

When The Wiz was first produced here in Australia in 1976 it was a reproduction of the Broadway production except the chorus was white. The principals were black with two imports, Dorothy was played by a young Andrea Frierson (Once On This Island) and the Tinman was played by Victor Willis who a year later was the original lead singer in the Village People.