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Review: ‘The Wiz’ on Broadway is freshened up and ready for an adoring audience

From left, Kyle Ramar as Freeman’ s Lion, Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Wayne Brady as the Wiz, Phillip Johnson Richardson as Tinman and Avery Wilson as Scarecrow in "The Wiz" on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in New York.

NEW YORK — “Everybody look around,” they’re singing, festively, at the Marquis Theatre. “There’s reason to rejoice, you see.”

For a lot of Broadway fans, especially Black audiences of a certain age, the return of the Super Soul Musical (it was the 1970s) “The Wiz” to the Great White Way after some 50 years is a cause for celebration. For all its flaws, and whatever qualms might now exist

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