The Wiz to be revived- Page 2

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:20pm

If it's to be multi-racial, as I have heard, I say Ann Harada as Evilline!

Whatever happened to Goeffrey Holder, anyway?

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:28pm

i would say i agree with you mister matt, b/c i usually do- but Henry Krieger is way different from Andrew Lippa..i don't think it could be the same.
I am also probably a little bias, because Billy has been telling me about this for months now. I guess his discomfort with the revival has begun to grate me as well..

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:30pm

i do think however, what the Wiz meant back in the 70's doesn't mean the same thing now...which is probably why multi-ethnic casting would be okay (i was totally against the multi-ethinc casting announcement in the beginning)

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:34pm

Battle was terrific (I think he was only 18 at the time), as were the extraordinary Stephanie Mills, Ted Ross, Mabel King and the rest of the original cast. Geoffrey Holder's designs and direction were so creative and imaginative (especially memorable was the dazzling tornado sequence that began with a single dancer swirling with a piece of black fabric that grew and grew and swelled and eventually filled the entire stage giving off the illusion of a pulsating tornado -- brilliant). I'm curious what this new creative team will come up with -- I hope they don't screw it up, because the original stage production was astonishing, superior in every way to the overblown film version.

[timote316]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:34pm

Anika Noni Rose would be awesome in almost anything lol. Any other ideas for casting?

(I don't know the show or movie to put in my two cents)

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:38pm

Anika who?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 4:50pm

I have always said Anika Noni Rose.....

I'd also like to chime in Shayna Steele, who has played Dorothy regionally...... for a younger Dorothy, how about Danelle Eugenia Wilson of Hairspray?