Description: When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy (Diana Ross) tries to save her dog from a storm, she's miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land called Oz. After accidentally killing the ...

Magic, as we learn in "The Wizard of Oz," can be found in the least likely places. A bucket of water. A pair of slippers. Or, in the case of "The Wiz," the 1975 Broadway musical, a 30-second TV spot. ...

I still remember being an excited 10-year-old and wanting the hurry home after evening mass at church to see the first television airing of the movie “The Wiz” on Saturday, Oct. 11, 1980. Still before ...

Yes, it bombed, and yes, a lot of people think it’s awful. They’re wrong, although the between-songs stuff isn’t as good as the too-much-is-not-enough production numbers. There’s a crazy number of ...