The Wiz On Broadway 2024 Reviews. In one of the show’s many testaments to black america — and specifically to black. When “the wiz” burst onto the scene in a puff of smoke in 1975, the show became a broadway sensation, launching the r&b career of a young stephanie mills, who played dorothy, and picking up a.

All of which is to say that “the wiz” is a pleasant, serviceable time at the theater, but as a new production of a musical with a legacy of bringing blackness to one. The wiz — broadway review (4/20) i have never seen the wiz and just saw snippets of the live nbc version a few years ago, so i went in blind (obviously knowing it followed a.