By the time "The Wiz" was made into a big-budget movie in 1978, it was familiar and beloved. Now critics were complaining that the film had trashed a classic (they knew it all along). And once ...

Though a star-studded 1978 film (Diana Ross! Michael Jackson! Richard Pryor! Lena Horne!) bombed both critically and commercially, that hardly tarnished the musical’s legacy. The Wiz has ...

They hated us. Oh my god, they hated The Wiz...the black cast. I received a lot of hate mail." In the film version of the musical, the role of Dorothy instead went to Diana Ross. When a caller ...