The Wiz Revival Update

[musicaltheater1]

The Wiz Revival Update#0

Posted: 9/8/06 at 2:47pm

Pre-production photos of Nikki M. James as Dorothy below.
Remember, this is just pre-production. More to come.

For tickets to The Wiz at the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego:
http://www.lajollaplayhouse.com/shows/2006season/wiz.htm


Nikki James

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

[Mirth]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#1

Posted: 9/8/06 at 3:03pm

Thanks for posting the info. Can't wait for more!

[BSoBW2]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#2

Posted: 9/8/06 at 3:48pm

HOT.
The West is so lucky.

[Fosse76]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#3

Posted: 9/8/06 at 4:09pm

It's not technically a revival if it's not on Broadway.

[AuditioningWaitress]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#4

Posted: 9/8/06 at 4:22pm

God I'm so behind...Been working way too much...I didn't even know Nikki M. James was Dorothy in this...Thanks for the link!

[liotte]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#5

Posted: 9/8/06 at 4:24pm

I love Nikki, I know she will be fierce as Dorothy and I hope they bring it to broadway!

[somethingwicked]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#6

Posted: 9/8/06 at 4:25pm

Really hoping this show will transfer to Broadway in time for my trip up this summer. Nikki looks great!

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[kim1061]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#7

Posted: 9/8/06 at 4:34pm

this makes me so excited, she looks too cute.

A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it, but all she really dreams is to make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer. And that is so beautiful-Anonymous

[musicaltheater1]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#8

Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:15am

Update...check out the updated poster for the production. Click on avatar to the left then click on "enlarge" located on the right corner.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 9/13/06 at 01:15 AM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#9

Posted: 9/13/06 at 1:31am

Mmmmm.

Love me some Nikki

Akiva

[Fiction Writer]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#10

Posted: 9/13/06 at 3:08am

Where's the gingam dress?
It looks really up.. high school-ish.

[Roses]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#11

Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:46am

It's an update so the costumes aren't going to be what you might imagine, plus the press pictures weren't taken in full costume, as they had not been built. Anyway, gingam dress = the wizard of oz, not the wiz.

[musicaltheater1]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#12

Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:45pm

Thanks, Roses. I'm sure the costume will be different come show time. FYI..TV promo ads were shown last night on NBC(Southern Calif.)showing Nikki and the Wiz (David Allan Grier)in full costume with a grey wig. Background music was "Ease on Down." It's not Michael Jackson.

Set design update: The yellow brick road runs through the middle of the audience and the stage itself is transformed to include on-stage audience seating (courtesy of Robert Brill, scenic designer).

Performance update: 2 weeks of previews, Sept 26 - Oct. 10, Press Night Oct. 11th. There's a a party for donors on Oct. 8th. Show may extend to Thanksgiving pending sale.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 9/14/06 at 07:45 PM

[catstagestud]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#13

Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:48pm

AWESOME!! Can't wait! Taking a road trip with a bunch of the people in my program up to San Diego for it. I'm really really excited for this show!!

Cheers,

Christopher

www.christopherviolett.com

[CATSNYrevival]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#14

Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:55pm

Set design update: The yellow brick road runs through the middle of the audience and the stage itself is transformed to include on-stage audience seating (courtesy of Robert Brill, scenic designer)

That's hardly an update. This has been known for quite some time...

[musicaltheater1]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#15

Posted: 9/13/06 at 8:11pm

Sorry, CATSNYrevival...it was an update to me anyway.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

[boxers7]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#16

Posted: 9/13/06 at 8:18pm

I'd love the poster withough Nikki (she looks WAY out of place) and OZ:2006 (it scares me a little).

"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored

[munkustrap178]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#17

Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:32pm

Um...a revival is a revival, Broadway or not.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[winston89]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#19

Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:47pm

I know the musical director. He will be able to get me in for free. He told me that this is a pre broadway tryout so i think it there is a great chance thus far of it comming to NYC

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

[adamgreer]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#20

Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:54pm

Her costume looks exactly like the uniforms my students wear.

She looks good, though. I hope this comes to NY...it sounds like a very interesting production.

[folkyboy]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#21

Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:57pm

i'm all about the Wiz. though i'd be curious to see where they'd fit it in with all these other shows still on Broadway

[aspiringactress]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#22

Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:16pm

That skirt is like a longer version of the one my rival school wears.

She looks fab.

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

[RentBoy86]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#23

Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:41pm

Well, good luck finding an available theater!

[Michael Bennett]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#24

Posted: 9/14/06 at 1:11am

Yeah, I don't think this is going to come in this season, even if its a smash hit in La Jolla. There is no where to put it, unless THE PRODUCERS closes before the spring.

[JoizeyActor]

re: The Wiz Revival Update#25

Posted: 9/14/06 at 1:16am

That's incredible. I can't wait for this to come to Broadway.