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Fact still remains that it did not reach the same audience as the first one did. No I did not watch, because the show does not appeal to me, but I am not surprised by the ratings. Fact is that whatever they do, there are going to deliver that number maybe around 13 million, because a lot of people would like to see Broadway shows, but not all can afford a thicket. prices are so high these days.

I think the ratings are very good, but it would have been twice or even three times the number if it was The Wizard of OZ.

Unfortunately I kept hearing comments at how racial the piece is. A joke went on that now we should have a Jewish Wiz, Hispanic and also a Polish. My colleges this am kept laughing about it all the time. That being said I might watch it on demand, just to see if it is really that racial.

Well, Jen, sorry that you're surrounded with "colleges" who are bigots and morons.

I loved it! What can I say that hasnt been said in all of the raves and excellent reviews? What can I say that hasn't been displayed by the stellar ratings?

Shanice Williams is a star.

Mary J Blige delivered an etertaining performance.

Emerald City apparently equals Atlanta. (I loved the voguing and all of the street dances they added)

Amber Riley is severely underrated

Queen Latifah was great

Dorothy's friends made a great "squad"

Stephanie Mills made the most of a small part, and she was so terrific

The script had flaws, but I still enjoyed it!

musicaljen said: "Fact still remains that it did not reach the same audience as the first one did. No I did not watch, because the show does not appeal to me, but I am not surprised by the ratings. Fact is that whatever they do, there are going to deliver that number maybe around 13 million, because a lot of people would like to see Broadway shows, but not all can afford a thicket. prices are so high these days.

I think the ratings are very good, but it would have been twice or even three times the number if it was The Wizard of OZ.

Unfortunately I kept hearing comments at how racial the piece is. A joke went on that now we should have a Jewish Wiz, Hispanic and also a Polish. My colleges this am kept laughing about it all the time. That being said I might watch it on demand, just to see if it is really that racial.

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Didn't you predict it would flop?

The ratings and the reviews that proclaimed it better than the past two NBC musicals (though that bar was pretty low) beg to differ

I thought the Rihanna commercial was the best staged moment of the night. Kenny Leon is not a musical comedy director and obviously not a TV director. NBC should follow the National Theater's lead in live broadcasting with an audience. Most musicals are designed for applause - live theater means the audience is another character in the room. The segues from over the top musical buttons to the next line of dialogue were painful - there was more dead air in the studio than a vacuum chamber. If any of the three shows cried out for an audience it was this one. From all the marketing material that was put out on the show it felt as if they had a long rehearsal period, imagine what could have been done if they were taping all those weeks.

I have said from Day 1 that I did not like the piece. Nothing wrong with being anti-Wiz. My point was, shouldn't they do something that should be better and score more ratings than The Sound of Music did?? With both the Wiz and Pan, that failed.

Showface, I did not say the show would be a flop, I said it will not deliver the ratings SOM did and I was right. Was The Wiz good, was it bad, that I don't know since I have not seen it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3345408/Social-media-flooded-racist-tweets-black-Wiz-Live-musical-special-kicks-off.html

Apparently this was not only from a handful of people that this show was seen from that perspective.

A review did state that The Wiz Live! was better than Pan but not as involving as Sound of Music.

Liza's Headband said: "The ratings and the reviews that proclaimed it better than the past two NBC musicals (though that bar was pretty low) beg to differ

Just for the sake of accuracy... That bolded part simply cannot be true since SOUND OF MUSIC easily beat it out with respect to ratings/demo/etc. To make a persuasive argument, you must be accurate!

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That's true. When I was drafting the post, I took out some parts, and obviously I took out some facts. My bad!

"shouldn't they do something that should be better and score more ratings than The Sound of Music did?? With both the Wiz and Pan, that failed."

musicaljen, unless you are a psychic, nobody knows what will beat the Sound of Music or not. What does it matter if they beat it or not? They still got very nice ratings. I think because The Sound of Music was so awful, and Carrie Underwood was terrible, people didn't even tune in last year. The Wiz excited people, and got people talking positively about it on social media, which made people want to see it, which is why they got better ratings than last year.

FindingNamo said: "You probably can't fast forward through the commercials so I'll look forward to your review in about five and a half hours.

On Demand is allowing you to ff through commercials.

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Updated On: 12/4/15 at 12:49 PM

All three shows were fantastic

No

Anyone who's spent time parsing ratings for reasons other than cyber sport can tell you that these are impressive numbers in 2015.

Srsly, people don't watch network TV together on the night anymore.

Roscoe said: "And if nothing else -- Dorothy only clicked her heels twice. I mean really."

I'm several pages behind on this thread, so I don't know if this has been commented on, but I noticed this and then rewound my dvr. I think Shanice clicked once while the camera was still on her face, therefore we only saw two clicks when it switched to her feet. This production didn't have great camera-work.