The Wiz with Asabi Goodman
Episode description
This episode we chat with singer-sensation Asabi Goodman about the super soul musical reimagining of the Wiard of Oz - The Wiz!
In his review of the 1984 revival, Frank Rich wrote: "What made The Wiz surprisingly moving the first time around was that its creators found a connection between Baum's Kansas fantasy and the pride of urban black Americans. When Glinda, the good witch, musically instructed Dorothy to 'believe in herself,' she seemed to be delivering a broader inspirational message. The Wiz was hardly a great musical in 1975, but it had something to say, and it said it with verve and integrity. It's depressing to watch a once-fervent expression of black self-respect and talent be spilled on the stage as if it were a trunkload of marked-down, damaged goods."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smalls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Brown_(writer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_Live
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(film)
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