The Wiz (1978)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.
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Sidney Lumet's "The Wiz" makes considerable use of costumes and production design that turns Frank L. Baum's world into a fantastical reinterpretation of New York City.
“There’s No Place Like Home,” for Erivo, which just makes you wish you were listening to “Home” from “The Wiz” instead.
If you like this, try: “Wicked” and “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Wiz,” and the books by L. Frank Baum, and join the Oz Club!
Erivo’s new number “No Place Like Home,” meanwhile, gains its power from how much it functions as a somber counterbalance to “Home” from The Wiz…
That’s as fantastical of a demand as Sidney Lumet’s 1978 “The Wiz” insisting that the great diva Diana Ross’ Dorothy was a nervous nelly who’d never been south of Harlem’s 125th Street.
I mean, there’s an actual line of dialogue about Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz – AND THEN ITS RELEVANCE IS EXPLAINED BY A BULLISH SKATER PUNK.