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'The Wiz' will ease on back to Broadway in 2024. But first, a national tour

"The Wiz" will ease on down the road back to Broadway in an all-new adaptation set for 2024. But before its return to New York, the Tony Award-winning musical will kick off a national tour next year in Baltimore, where the original production debuted in 1974. The "entirely reimagined revival" will be helmed by theater vet and Black Theater United founding member Schele Williams ("Motown the ...
Amber Ruffin attends "Mary J Blige: My Life" premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on June 23, 2021, in New York. ( Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images/TNS.

"The Wiz" will ease on down the road back to Broadway in an all-new adaptation set for 2024.

But before its return to New York, the Tony Award-winning musical will kick off a national tour next year in Baltimore, where the original production debuted in 1974.

The "entirely reimagined revival" will be helmed by theater vet and founding member Schele Williams

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