
The Wiz (Encores)
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The 2009 New York City Center Encores! summer series production of Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown’s 'The Wiz' brought a thrilling, vocally staggering, and critically adored concert revival of the 1974 masterpiece to the New York stage scene. Directed by Thomas Kail with explosive, high-stepping contemporary choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, this high-profile staging focused with symphonic pop clarity on Smalls’ soul-and-gospel orchestrations, stripping away physical distance to celebrate the rhythmic showstoppers, starring Ashanti and Orlando Jones.

