Slideshow
THE WIZ
Sunday, June 22
11:00
U.S., 1978
Directed by Sidney Lumet
With Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross
Music by Quincy Jones, Charlie Smalls, Anthony Jackson
Approx. 133 min. DCP.
School teacher Diana Ross eases on down the road to the land of Oz, which looks exactly like... '70s NYC! From the all-Black Broadway version of The Wizard of Oz, with Lena Horne (Lumet’s mother-in-law) as the Good Witch, Michael Jackson as Scarecrow, and Richard Pryor in the title role, et al.
Reviews
“Sidney Lumet has created what amounts to a love letter to the city of New York, which he equates with Oz.”
– Variety
“One majestic, rabble-rousing Mother Ship of a musical, a sublimely happy moviegoing experience.”
– Gary Arnold, The Washington Post