The Wiz Live! held open auditions for the role of Dorothy, and one lucky New Jersey native beat out hundreds. Eighteen-year-old Shanice Williams landed the lead role of Dorothy, and the newcomer only ...

Dayton native and Colonel White High School graduate Schele Williams is having a full circle moment. She starred as Dorothy in the 1989 Muse Machine production of “The Wiz” and her 2024 Broadway ...

The documentary It's Dorothy! celebrates 125 years of The Wizard of Oz and its iconic main character Frank L. Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was released on May 17, 1925 Judy Garland, Diana ...

The airing of “The Wiz Live!” Thursday, December 3 rd 8/7c on NBC is truly a momentous occasion considering the fact that when the Broadway musical “The Wiz” was scheduled for a Broadway run, ...

The Wiz Live! is ready to hit the yellow brick road—that is, begin production—because the musical has just cast its Dorothy. TVLine reports that 18-year-old Shanice Williams will play the Kansas girl ...

*NBC is holding an open casting call in New York for the lead role of Dorothy in its upcoming holiday special “The Wiz Live!,” set for Dec. 3. Auditions will take place on June 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m ...

Anxious teens hope to get lead role in high school production of "The Wiz." Dec. 8, 2008— -- Outside the theater department at Westfield High School in northern Virginia, a line of nervous ...