Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Originally released as a motion picture in 1978. Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor.
Summary:
Musical version of the Broadway play based on the Wonderful Wizard of Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. Ross plays the modern-day Dorothy, a Harlem schoolteacher, who is swept away in a blizzard in search of her dog Toto. Jackson is the scarecrow, Russell the Tin Man, Ross the Lion and Pryor stars as "The Wiz."
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