'The Wiz,' A Theatre Performance for Black History Month
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Come support our children’s theatre group led by Diva Works Entertainment for their contemporary reproduction of The Wiz. An adaptation of the groundbreaking Broadway musical — itself a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s fantasy “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
About "The Wiz": Over forty years after its original release, no film has uniquely defined black culture and shaped the framework of a musical genre quite like "The Wiz." For a generation of black Americans, this was the first time they saw people who spoke, and moved the way they did in a Broadway production and, later, a big-screen musical, and it has become a kind of rite of passage for the black community. "The Wiz," weaved together gospel, blues, soul and R&B — genres that are unequivocally black creations — and were narratives of the black experience.
Date | Saturday, February 12 at 7 p.m.
Location | WorldBeat Cultural Center
Get tickets here!
General admission is $15.
For more information, please visit worldbeatcenter.org/event/the-wiz-play or call WorldBeat Cultural Center at (619) 230-1190.
