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Production Team and Crew

Producer: Ken Harper
Director: Geoffrey Holder
Music: Charlie Smalls
Lyrics: Charlie Smalls
Choreographer: George Faison
Set Design: Tom H. John
Costume Design: Geoffrey Holder
Lighting: Tharon Musser
Hair/Wig Design: Stanley James
Sound Design: Richard J.C. Miller


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Original Cast

Scarecrow - Hinton Battle
Tinman - Tiger Haynes
Dorothy - Stephanie Mills
Lion - Ted Ross
Glinda - Dee Dee Bridgewater
The Wiz - André De Shields
Evillene - Mabel King
Addaperle - Clarice Taylor
Aunt Em - Tasha Thomas
Swing - Cynthia Ashby
Munchkin, Field Mouse - Phylicia Ayers-Allen
Poppy, Emerald City Citizen - Lettie Battle
Royal Gatekeeper - Danny Beard
Kalidah, Emerald City Citizen - Phillip Bond
Poppy, Emerald City Citizen - Leslie Butler
Munchkin, Kalidah - Pi Douglass
Yellow Brick Road - Ronald Dunham
Crow - Wendy Edmead
Pit Singer - Frank Floyd
Kalidah - Rodney Green
Pit Singer - Sam Harkness
Yellow Brick Road - Eugene Little
Poppy - Eleanor McCoy
Crow, Poppy, Emerald City Citizen - Frances Morgan
Toto - Nancy
Munchkin - Joni Palmer
Yellow Brick Road - John Parks
Munchkin - Howard Porter
Pit Singer - Jozella Reed
Swing - Otis Sallid
Yellow Brick Road - Kenneth Scott
Tornado - Evelyn Thomas
Winged Monkey - Andy Torres
Soldier Messenger - Carl Weaver
Uncle Henry - Ralph Wilcox


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Theatrical Production
Producer(s): Ken Harper
Director(s): Geoffrey Holder
Theatre: Majestic Theatre (1/5/1975 - 5/25/1977)
Broadway Theatre (5/25/1977 - 1/28/1979)
Opening Date: January 5, 1975
Closing Date: January 28, 1979
Lyrics: Charlie Smalls
Music: Charlie Smalls

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