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www.knowitalljoe.com in "THE WIZ" Also Srarring JACKSON · · and (as "") J.oducnon Des1gn & Costumes by Songs by Mus1c Adapted & Su perv1sed by · · Executive Producer Ed1tor Direcror of Photography KEN HARPER · · OSWALD MORRIS G.s .c. Speoal V1sual Effecrs by Screenplay by Produced by ALBERT WHITLOCK · JOEL SCHUMACHER · D1recred by

Oased on rhe ploy 'THE WIZ' o Oool~ by WILLIAM F GROWN o Music and Lynes by CHARLIE SMALLS

Prod uced on rhe New Yorl~ Stage by KEN HARPER o A PRODUGION o A UNIVERSAL PIGURE o TECHNICOLOR •

1978 Universal City Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. · - uE WIZ is a trademark of and licensed by Universal CitY Studios, Inc.

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DIANA ROSS

Born and reared in Detroit, Diana Ross, as a teenager, part of a trio called T he Pri­ mettes. They sang around the area until the trio gravitated to Motown Records. Renamed , the rest became musical his­ tory. Las Vegas, , television, world ­ wide tours, the Supremes were just that- su­ preme. Then, Miss Ross left the group in 1969 to become solo performer. She was soon nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in her first fi lm, Lady Sings the Blues. She followed with , for which she was not only the star but also the costume designer. During her singing career, she super­ vised or designed many of her costumes for the stage, preparing her to combine her fav­ orite hobby with her acting career. Her record­ ing of the Theme From Mahogany went to No. 1 on the charts and was also nominated for an Academy Award. That year- 1976- she was named "Female Entert ainer of the Century" by Billboard Magazine. Early in 1976, Miss Ross made a triumphant tou r of Europe which was followed by her Broadway debut at the Pa lace Theatre breaking the a ll -time, 63-year­ old house record and winning a "Special T ony Award" fo r this outstanding Broadway achieve­ ment. She followed these personal appearances with an NBC-TV Big Event Special-the first 90- minute one-woman prime-time special in tele­ vision history . Laced throughout this phenom­ enal rise were her No. 1 single records, Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) and A in't No Mountain High Enough, in addition to her numerous top-of-the-charts albums. Surrounded by her three daughters, Rhonda Suzanne, T racee Joy and Chudney Lane, Miss Ross delights in them as the main focus of her life. Being a de­ voted mother, and creating a warm , happy and secure environment for her children, are prior­ ities in Diana's life. t\11CHAEL NIPSEY TED JACKSON RUSSELL ROSS --

The Stage Musical (). T inman (Tiger Haynes), Lion (Ted Ross), The Wiz (Andre de On January 5, 1975, The Wiz opened on Broad­ Shields), Evillene (), Glinda (Dee way. The musical comedy produced by Ke n Dee Bridgewater). (Tasha Thomas) Harper had its premiere in on Octo­ and (Ral ph Wi lcox). ber 21, 1974 and proceeded to Detroit and The MGM Movie Musical before arriving in New York. It was in 1970 t hat the idea for a contem­ Eve n before the film had opened, The Wizard porary all-black version of the classic was con­ of was being proclaimed as a cinema classic. ceived by Ken Harper, who had been working The world premiere on August 15, 1939 at for WPIX-Radio in New York as disc jockey, Grauman's Chinese Theatre was one of the music director and public affairs director_ great Hollywood events of its generation. The After a shaky start, The Wiz went on to con- magic was repeated t wo days later at the Capitol . quer Broadway, winning seven of the 1975 Theatre in New York, where the film was ac­ for Best Musical, Best Score companied by stage appearances of its star, (Charlie Smalls). Best Director (Geoffrey Hold­ , and her frequent film partner, er). Best Choreography (). Mickey Rooney, during the f irst week. Best Costumes (), Best Sup­ No expense or effort was spared by MGM porting Actor (Ted Ross, the Lion) and Best Studios, headed by Louis B. Mayer, in the pro­ Supporting Actress (, duction of the film which cost $2.777,000. T he Glinda). producer was Mervyn LeRoy, whose ca reer was The stage musical also won the 1976 Gram my principally as a director, and the associate pro­ Award for Best Original Cast Show Album. ducer was Arthur Freed, a songwriter who went Other participants in the production in­ on to become Metro's top musical producer. cluded: William F. Brown, who wrote t he book; The director was V ictor Fleming, who left Tom H. John, settings; , lighting; the film three weeks before the completion of Harold Wheeler, orchestration; Charles H. Cole­ shooting on March 16, 1939, to take over the man, vocal arrangements and Tom Pierson, direction of Gone with the Wind. The six-month musical direction. shooting schedule began in September, 1938 The original cast featured the following per­ with Richard Thorpe directing, but filming was formers in key roles: () , halted t wo weeks later, when Buddy Ebsen playing the T in Woodman became ill from h is silver make-up and was replaced by Jac k Haley. At the same time T horpe took over directing, Judy Garland's wig of long blonde curls was changed in fa vor of pigtails. The screenplay w as credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. The songs w ere written by composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg. Musical num­ bers were staged by Bobby Connolly. Art director was Cedric Gibbons and Harold Rosson was director of photography. The Kan­ sas farm scenes were filmed in sepia with the rest of the film in Technicolor. Judy Garland was 16 years old when f ilming began. When MGM bought the rights from Sam­ uel Goldwyn (who had been planning it as an vehicle) for $20,000, the idea was to borrow Shirley Temple from Fox for t he role of Dorothy. In the original Baum book and Denslow drawings, she appears as a little girl, definitely pre-teenage, so Judy Garland wore a special corset to bind her breasts. The other leading parts (which were f re­ quently dual roles with the Oz characters having their counterparts in ) were played by Frank Morgan (the Wizard, Prof. Marvel and other bit roles in Oz); Ray Bolger (the Scare­ crow and Hunk); Bert Lahr (the JacJ( Haley ( and Other Versions on Stage and Screen 3 -= Burke (Giinda); Margaret Ham­ The first dramatization of The Wonderful -= '• c ed Witch and Miss Gulch); Clara was an enormously successful ( ~... nt Em) and Charley Grapewin stage production called The Wizard of Oz, -:;:uy). which opened in the fall of 1902 in at - = 'I za~d o& Oz received several Academy the Grand Opera House and came to New York - ;}()'""·'lations but lost out mainly to in early 1903 at the old Majestic Theater in ~ 7::l JJe Wind, although Over the Rain­ . It p layed for eighteen months. ~ 3est Song and Herbert Stothart for Anna Laughlin played Dorothy, Arthur Hill _ ..a Score musical adaptaton). A serious was the Cowardly Lion, and the biggest hits ~o cu~ this song (which became Judy's were two vaudeville comedians, Fred Stone as .z.--~e ·· ame) before release had been made the Sca recrow and David M ontgomery as the 2 1 studio executives. Judy Garland also Tin Woodm an. the dog was replaced by a _ a rn·niature Oscaras 1939's outstanding cow. The play toured endless ly across the United =:>erforrne r. States. Book and lyrics were written by Baum The Original Book and music by Pau l Tietjens and A. Ba ldwin Sloane. -,-he Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the In 1906, during a visit to Paris, Baum be­ ":I'{ - · Frank Baum was first published by cam e int erested in the infant film industry. In G:o.rge M. Hill Co. of Chicago in June, 1900. the next few years, he put toget her something ere illustrations by a newspaper artist, = ... he ca lled "radio plays" (before today's radi o was invented) in w hich he t oured in a stage - o::x:ord"ng to Martin Gardner in his introduc- production, providing the narration himse lf for -e a Dover edition of the book: " The Wizard ce rtain photographed images. become this country's greatest , best-loved In 1910, a one-reeler was produced by Col­ ia e. It has never been out of print, and so onel Williem Nicholas Selig. Some accounts say ed:tions have been published, in the that four one-reelers in all were actually dis­ 2'd States and abroad, that no one knows tributed by Selig Pictures. 1 millions of copies have been sold." -a :~ Living in Ho llywood, California from 1911, 339, ~GM estimated that t he novel had Baum formed the Oz Film Company in 1913 eao by over 80,000,000 people. and produced during its two years' existence - - ough dozens of different illustrated ve r­ three five-reel Oz features. They were entitled, .,a.e been prepared, the original accom­ The of Oz, The Magic Cloak of ~ pictures by Denslow have an indelible Oz and His Majesty, (later ~'1 the book. re-titled as The New Wizard of Oz). _ "1an Fra nk Baum was born in Ch itten ­ In 1925, a full-length si lent film was made :;:c ew York on May 15, 1856. Deeply in called Th e Wizard of Oz, based on a script =:: a;: the time of pubI ication, he had worked written by one of Baum's four sons, L. Frank t:Jany jobs-newspaper reporter, playwright Baum, Jr., in collaboration w ith the film's star .:: :cwr. owner of a variety store in Aberdeen, and director, comic Larry Semon. A rather ~ Dakota, road sa lesman of china and glass­ mature Dorothy was played by Frank Baum's LENA -~e ; ounder of a national association of store- wife, Dorothy Dwan. She lands on Oz with -co •, dressers and editor of their first na· three farmhands w ho are transformed into the HORNE ~ house organ. Scarecrow (Larry Semon), the Lion (G . Howe - Chicago at this t ime, he started writing Black) and the Tin Woodman (played by Oliver Although The Wiz is Lena Horne's first film =:r dren in his spare time. His first book in Hardy, before he start ed teaming with Stan since 1969, she has been cont inuously busy S'9- Nas Mother Goose in Prose, which in its Laurel ). The Wizard was played by Charlie touring night clubs and supper clubs around the :.= 'lg of 22 stori es based on Mother Goose Murray in an adaptation t hat took liberties with world and completed a round of engagements -es introduced the character of a I ittle farm the original. The f ilm was re leased by Chadwick in Scandinavia just prior to this film. Born in ~am ed Dorothy. Illustrations were by Max­ Pict ur es . Brooklyn, New Y ork, she att ributes her beauty

Pryor began working in night clubs In her eighth screen role, Mabel King repeats A headliner in nightclubs, on the Broadway

r for Blazing Saddles; an Emmy for the Howard Gosse// Show, The Show Broadway stage, appearing with Bill " Bojangles" - Specials; and Grammies for three of and Spotlight on , as well as on shows Robinson in Bound and with Bea for the B.B.C. and French television. Ms. King Lillie and Jack Ha ley in Inside U.S.A. Recent­ 5c---:;t:rth,ln.Q I Said? and Bicentennial Nigger. has sung in night clubs all across the United ly, she toured with Pippin and was in the TV ~., his film career in 1972 as the Piano States, Canada, and F ranee and was a version of Barefoot in the Park. Among her ooposite Diana Ross in Lady Sings the recording artist for Ram a Records. Just before most memorable songs are Who Cares, Em­ A.mong his ten films are Which Way Is joining the Broadway cast of The Wiz, Ms. King braceable You, It's A Big Wide Wonderful 3 ue Collar, Greased Lightning, Car Wash, toured Europe in La Dispute for Theatre World and Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me. !3 ,.,go Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Nationale Populaire. She was born in Charles­ In the Pearl Ba iley-Cab Call oway company of and Uptown, Saturday Night. Born and ton, South Carolina, and was raised in New Hello, Dolly! o n Broad way and on t our, Ms. ., Peoria, Illinois, Pryor made his first York City. She first started singing profession­ Carpenter was Pearl Bai ley's standby and under­ ao pearance at 12 at Peoria's Carver ally, along with her mother, Rosalie Washing­ study and played the title role during matinees. 'lity Center in Rumpelstiltskin_ ton, when she was four years old. RICHARD MABEL THELMA PRYOR KING CARPENTER

Richard Pryor began working in night clubs In her eighth screen role, Mabel King repeats A headliner in nightclubs, on the Broa around the U.S. and Canada as an M.C. and her Tony Award-winning Broadway role in The stage, on radio, and a lead singer in the big comic after his Army discharge in 1960. As a Wiz. Her other screen credits include The Bingo era of the '30s and '40s, Thelma Cam writer, he co-authored with Mel Brooks, the Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, makes her motion picture debut in The highly successful Blazing Saddles. He has also Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren, The Hot Rock, Still booked on nightclub dates across written TV scripts for Sanford and Son and The with Robert Redford, Blood Couple, Scott Jop­ country, Ms. Carpenter reached her apex a . Show, as well as material for Lily lin and Don't Play Us Cheap, which she also the era of the big bands when she v.as

Tomlin's TV Specials, and for his own tele­ played on Broadway. Her other Broadway singer for the . 0 1' r vision specials, albums and personal appear­ stage appearances include Porgy and Bess and she often performed on the Major Bowes S ances. His many awards include those from the Hello, Dolly! On television, she has appeared on and succeeded Dinah Shore on The EdcJ:e Writer's Guild and the American Academy of the Mike Douglas Show, The Gong Show, The tor Show. She has also been a headliner 01! Humor for Blazing Saddles; an Emmy for the Howard Cassell Show, Broadway stage, appearing with Bill " S oja ~ Tomlin Specials; and Grammies for three of and Spotlight on Harlem, as well as on shows Robinson in Memphis Bound and wier his comedy albums- That Nigger's Crazy, Was for the B.B .C. and French television. Ms. King Lillie and Jack Haley in Inside US.A. R ~ It Something I Said? and Bicentennial Nigger. has sung in night clubs all across the United ly, she toured with Pippin and was in tra He began his film career in 1972 as the Piano States, Canada, Japan and F ranee and was a version of Barefoot in the Park. Amo n~ Man opposite Diana Ross in Lady Sings the recording artist for Rama Records. Just before most memorable songs are Who Cares, Blues. Among his ten films are Which Way Is joining the Broadway cast of The Wiz, Ms. King braceable You, It's A Big Wide Wand;; Up?, Blue Collar, Greased Lightning, Car Wash, toured Europe in La Dispute for Theatre World and Do Nothing Till You Hear fro,... The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Nationa/e Populaire. She was born in Charles­ In the -Cab Calloway compa ~ Kings and Uptown, Saturday Night. Born and ton, South Carolina, and was raised in New Hello, Dolly! on Broadway and on tour reared in Peoria, Illinois, Pryor made his first York City. She first started singing profession­ Carpenter was Pearl Bailey's standby and L" stage appearance at 12 at Peoria's Carver ally, along with her mother, Rosalie Washing­ study and played the title role during mat·~ Community Center in Rumpelstiltskin. ton, when she was four years old.

The Wiz is based on an American success story project. A f ew months later, Dian a Ross, a which has delighted the world in various guises Motown contractee of sixt een years duration, since its f irst appearance at the turn of the had a dream-she would p~ay Dorot hy . Script­ century. ing and preparation began on February 8, 1977. The 1900 novel by L. Fran k Baum, The With The Wiz, Lumet and Cohen and their Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the 1975 stage tea m have tapped into a great living American musical hit have inspired an extravagant new classic, which every generation since the begin­ film shot entirely in by d irector ning of this cen tu ry has told in its own way. Sidney Lumet. Shoot ing of the Universal/Me­ " Certain stories are eternal," says producer t own production took place at t he landmark Cohen. "Every cu lture develops interpretative Astoria Studios and on city streets during the myths which lend themselves to adaptation and final mont hs of 1977. Working on a 13-week re-interpretation. It was inevitable for Oz to be shooting schedule, the picture is the m ost set in New York. In Baum 's classic, the charac­ expensive ever made in New York. ters have to go to t he city to get the answers. It became "contemporary urban fantasy" Today's urban culture is bl ack-oriented, affect­ w ith Miss Ross play ing a 24-year·old school ing all life styles, language and m usic trends. t eacher living in Harlem who is whisked into Hence, The Wiz." t he vortex of a snowstorm which takes her Traditionally a dry month in New York City, and her pet Miniature Sch nauzer, "Toto", on October was used for shooting t he biggest ex­ an advent ure in t he , which resem­ terior sequences in the picture. Filming began bles nothing so much as Gotham turned upside­ at the World Trade Cen ter in t he cen t ra l plaza, down and sideways by producer Rob Cohen at the f oot of the twin towers w hich had and Lumet through the concepts of production been scaled by a rampaging King K ong. designer Tony Walton. The trade center complex became Emerald For the project, Lumet assembled previously City, headquarters of t he elus ive Wizard of Oz tested col laborators including Walton, Oswald and inhabited by -conscious citizens Morris as d irector of photograp hy, Dede Allen who change color from green to red to gold at as f ilm editor, Quincy Jones as musical director the snap of a magic f inger. Some 37,000 bulbs, and Louis Johnson as choreographer. each lasting one night's shooting, were hand­ Fifty-two sequences were plotted, with 32 tinted for the sequence. Over 650 dancers and on exterior locat ions and 20 built at t he newly ­ top models were hired to fill the vast area, each revitalized Astoria Studios, w hich were origin­ one equipped with t hree diff erent colored cos· ally opened in 1920 by . tumes and fu rs, whipped up for the occasion For the , 20 miles of yel low by New York's t op desi gners, including , vinyl worth $ 237,000 were used. Oscar de Ia Renta, , , The vast project bega n to take shape in May, Norma l

: Studios, where the interior of Evillene's for the scenes showing the discovery of the Tin actors to be working at the same time. This was • snop had been constructed, complete Man. A few feet from the famed Boardwalk, Lena Horne's appearance as the good witch 96 old-fashioned sewing machines, giant the filming took place underneath the Cyclone Glinda, which was shot at t he Fox-54th St. "£ fans, glass roof and overhead sprinkling roller coaster which is part of the Astroland Studio in Manhattan, where a replica of the and gargoyles peering down from the amusement park complex. As expected, Na­ milky way was constructed. Funny a nd chaotic ,•, ith Evillene's throne resembling noth­ than's Famous Hot Dogs sent over lunch one at t he same time, the scene called for Lena - ore classic than an enormous toilet bowl. day. On a previous evening, the crew had shot Horne to be surrounded by "Snow Babies," -::;::d set visitor during this episode was Mrs. another scene in Coney Island at a burned-out who were suspended thirty feet on concealed :.::a King, widow of Martin Luther King. tenement building between Mermaid and Nep­ parachute-type rigs so t hey would appear to be --=riors of the apartment where Dorothy tune Avenues. Even in this desolate neighbor­ floating in space. Mothers equipped with baby ~ .., "th Aunt Em and Uncle Henry were shot, hood, Diana Ross' fans turned out in force and bottles, diapers and candy bars rushed about .:: ~.,en the company moved to Coney Island remained respectfully silent as the playback frantically for hours before t he infants' wai ling repeated over and over again her song number. subsided and the scene was shot. Among the set Another difficult "exterior" was shot in the vis itors that day were Sidney Lumet's wife and bowels of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway sta· younger daughter Amy, who had come to visit t ion in downtown Brooklyn as the "A" train (of t heir mother/grandmother, Lena Horne. Duke Ell ington fame) roared by. The platforms The final exterior shots, which were coin­ were scrubbed down and covered wi th the vinyl cidentally to be the first and last shots of the flooring simulating the yellow brick road. Fi lm­ fin ished fi lm, were of the street and apartment ing on this sequence was completed at the 14th house where Dorothy lives with Aunt Em. The St. I RT station which boasts a particularly com­ location was in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant plex maze of white tile tunnels. urban renewal district. Several tons of poly­ Shooting returned to Astoria for the Emer­ styrene shavings were used to simulate the snow ald City motel, the roof of the Poppy Love Per­ storm which wh isks Dorothy to and from the fume factory and the garbage-heaped aban­ magical land of Oz. doned lot where the Scarecrow guarded his pa­ Principal photography was completed w ith thetic garden patch of corn from the beaks of the Lion springing-to-life on t he steps of the the four anthropomorphic crows. N.Y. Public Library main branch on 42nd St. Richard Pryor then arrived in New York to and 5th Ave. The long shots had been taken at shoot his scenes as the Wiz. The eyes of an 8 a.m. on the Sunday of Christmas week, but enormous 25-foot silver head of Pryor cast the vast marble facade had to be reconstructed laser-like spotlights at a quivering Diana Ross at the studio for Ted Ross' dance number. This and her friends who had come to ask for his extraordinary sight prompted the new mayor of favors. New York, Edward Koch, to come down for a For just two days in December, the shooting brief visit in honor of the fi lming's finish in the schedule called for all six of the film's principal Big Apple. KE N HARPER ROB COHEN SIDNEY LUMET Execut ive Producer Producer Director

dea of a contemporary version of The At 29, Rob Cohen has produced seven major After a string of film successes including Net­ Wizard of Oz w as conceived by Ken motion pictures - three of them in a si ngl e year work, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, .vho left his position as Program Affairs (The Wiz, Almost Summer and Thank God, It's and , Sidney at WP I X Radio (N. Y .C.) to devote Friday). Cohen was born in the suburban com­ Lumet's first musical motion picture in a career ' to the project. The Wiz did become a munity of -on-t he-Hudson, N.Y. He in which he has directed 25 films in a 20-year ~ ' or Mr. Harper who had been a disc jock- received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in span is The Wiz. Born in Phi ladelphia in 1925, 1971. His interest in filmmaking was aroused his family moved to New York when his father, ous success which won seven Tony when - during the summer of his sophomore Baruch, began acting on rad io. The elder Lumet ::.rds. Still running on Broad way, The Wiz year -he worked as assistant to producer­ soon became a star of t he famed Yiddish Art oeen produced on stages across the country director Daniel Petrie, who was filming Silent Theatre. At the age of 11, Sidney won his first ;,ell as in Japan, Australia and Mexico and Night, Lonely Night. After graduation , Cohen Broadway role in Dead End. He went on to soon be seen in Paris and the rest of Europe headed for Hollywood working at International The Eternal Road, George Washington Slept ... ell. Ken's understanding of the music scene Famous Artists, a leading talent agency. He Here, My Heart's in the Highlands, Brooklyn, a d·sc jockey meant that WP I X was frequent ­ next moved to T wentieth Century-Fox Tele­ U.S.A. , A Flag Is Born and One Third of a ::..,e f irst New York station to play songs w hich VI SIOn w here, after a brief period of time, he Nation which became his only film acting role. became national hits, and recognition of began packaging f eature films for TV and be­ After serving in the China-Burma-India front in WW II, he returned to the Broadway stage. He ~ s ·nsight by others in the music industry led came di rector of television movies at the · a 'lis involvement in record producing. His studio. For Motow n Records, he produced later directed You Are There, Danger, Best ;a:::-·evements, however, extend wel l beyond t he Mahogany which starred Diana Ross, Tony of Broadway and other series on TV, turning · e d of music. He has served as an emcee and Perkins and . This was fol­ out some 250 shows in a ten-year period. In ac"ior on televi sion and his radio interview pro­ lowed by Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars 1957, he made his first film working with ~ams have f eatured pu blic figures ranging and Motor Kings which starred Billy Dee Wil­ Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marsha ll and ~O'il politicians to critics, minority group liams, Richard Pryor and Jam es Earl Jones. Jack Warden in Twelve Angry Men. Among eaders and entertainment celebrit ies. His new Nex t, Rob Cohen produced another pictu re Lumet's other major films are The Hill, The Sea rusical, called Bamboo, is based on a N inth which was for rele ase by Universa l, Scott Joplin Gull, , The Pawnbroker, Century Japanese fairy tale. Like The Wiz, it is in w hich Billy Dee William s and Art Carney Long Day's Journey into Night, The Group a • ·sian he hopes to share with the w orld. st arred. and Fail Safe. JOEL SCHUMACHER TONY WALTON CHARLIE S.\ 1ALLS Screenplay Production Design & Costumes Music & L\ r->cs

:... · 965 graduate of New York's Parsons School At 43, Tony Walton has designed over 100 With The Wiz since ·ts ·ncept'on as =. :::­ o' :Jesign, Joel Schumacher was a winner of productions. He began designing for Broadway way show, Charlie Sma s .-Jon •ne 19-:: - :xr:t- the Norman Norell and Donald Brooks at 22, with the sets and lighting for Noel Cow­ Award for Best Score and rhe i976 G ~ !. .ards. He earned his living while attending ard's Conversation Piece. Other career high· scnool with a succession of jobs as a window lights were The Boy Friend and the musical career w hen, at the age o~ :e~ . -= ;:·esser at several top New York department production of Valmouth. His first big Broad· presented with his f irst piano, a g =: _....,... r-ores. Upon graduation, he opened his own way musical success was A Funny Thing Hap­ actress Tallulah Ban khead. He went on · o bo ~• i que. A short time later, however, he went pened on the Way ta the Forum followed by -:: w ork for Revlon. After working as an art the new stage version of Golden Boy starring izing in classical studies. In m ilital\' sen ·::e C. r:!Ctor on television commercials, he became Sammy Davis, Jr. He went to Hollywood in the performed with the Air Force Band. ~ s 1::: =tt~m e designer for Play It as It Lays, which early 1960s to design Mary Poppins starring cal apprenticeship included doing the ro~~­ s:arred Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld. This his then wife, Julie Andrews, and received his Manhattan clubs and t ouring with gospe s , as quickly followed by similar assignments on first Oscar nomination. The second was for Esther Morrow and . S..-= rre Last of Sheila, Blume in Love and Woody Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express. backed 's group f or near .;. 1en's Sleeper. He began w riting TV scripts Also for Lumet, he did and Equus. years, leaving to form his ow n group unde - a'ld sold the screenplay for the TV movie. He also created futuristic designs for Fahren­ tract to A & M Records. Primarily a piar1 s· Virginia Hill, starring and which heit 451. Among Walton's shows have been '1e himself directed. His first motion picture Uncle Vanya, Streamers, The Rehearsal and worked as an actor and singer. One of"' s .­ 5Creenplay was Sparkle, the story of a trio of three Tony Award winners-Pippin, Chicago was in the film, Faces in which Sma s oop singers. This was followed by Universal's and The Apple Tree. He collaborated on the formed as well. His work on The Wiz me Car Wash, starring Richard Pryor. screen version of Forum and on Petu/ia. his Broadway debut.

OSWALD MORRIS QUINCY JONES LOUIS JOHNSON Photography Music Supervisor Choreography

This is the British-born cameraman, Oswald This first film assignment for Quincy Jones was Currently director of the Louis Johnson 9 a \llorris' 55th film. His credits read like a list of as musical director for Sidney Lumet's The Theatre , Mr. Johnson is on the staff o' the biggest British and international film suc· Pawnbroker. He rejoins Lumet some thirty Howard University Fine Arts Depart!""' cesses . Among his eight motion pictures for films later with The Wiz. One of Jones' first Some of his choreographic achievemen:s John Huston are Moulin Rouge, Beat the jobs was playing trumpet for Billie Holiday elude a Tony nomination f or Purlie, the b 3 Devil, Moby Dick, Roots of Heaven, Reflec· when he was only 14. Jones was soon playing Dance of the Hours in La Gioconda to­ ~ions in a Golden Eye and The Man Who Would with such bands as those run by Lionel Hamp· Metropolitan Opera Company and the S:: Be King. He made Look Back in Anger and The ton, Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie, He soon Joplin opera, Treemonisha. Other Broad . Entertainer with Tony Richardson. For Herbert began composing and / or arranging for such credits include the staging and choreograph 'loss, he shot Goodbye Mr. Chips and The greats as , Ray Anthony, Sarah Les 8/ancs, Lost in the Stars and Mahagonf' Seven Percent Solution. Other major successes Vaughn, Basie, Gillespie and many others. In did the choreography for the movie Co:­ 'lclude The Guns of Navarone, The Spy Who 1959, he formed his own band and orchestrated Comes to Harlem. Mr. Johnson has crea Came in from the Cold, The Taming of the the music for an American opera to be per· ballets for the Cincinnati Ballet, the ;. Shrew, A Farewell to Arms, Lolita, Oliver and formed in Europe. Jones' other three films for Ailey Dance Theatre, the Washington Bal e• . Sleuth. He won an Oscar for Fiddler on the Lumet were , Last of the the Dance Theatre of Harlem. His bal let Fo ~oo f. Morris won the British Academy Award Mobile·Hot Shots and The Anderson Tapes. His of Rhythm for the latter w as presented

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THE CREDITS =xecu tive Producer ...... : ...... Ken Harper Principal Cost umes Executed by. Barbara Matera ?roduced by ...... Rob Cohen Make- Up Supervisor ...... Robert Laden ::> rected by ...... Sidney Lumet Make-Up A rtists ...... Carl Fu llerton, Michael R. Thomas, Screenplay by ...... Joel Schumacher Scott Cun ningham, A lan Weisinger, =-om The Wonderful Wizard o f Oz by ...... L. Frank Baum Ward robe ...... Marilyn Putnam, George Newman 3ased on the Play, Th e Wiz Stylists ...... William Farley, Ted Long aook by ...... Wi lliam F. Brown Emera ld City : Our T hanks T o '.'usicand Lyri cs by ...... Charlie Smalls Scott Barrie Ronald Kolodzie ::> rector of Photography ...... Os wald Morris, B.S. C. Bill Blass Ralph Lauren = m Editor ...... Dede A llen Stephen Bu rrows Mary McFadden :>roduction Design and Costumes by ...... Tony Wa lt on Oscar De La Renta Fernando Sanchez Soecial Visual Effects by ...... Albert Wh it lock Halston Zoran .• Jsic A dapted and Supe rvised by ...... G uiney Jones Kamali A lixandre Furs Songs by ...... Charlie Smalls Halston for Ben Kahn Furs C"1oreography by ...... Louis Johnson Associate Producer ...... Bu rtt Harris Dance rs from T he L ouis Johnson Dance T heatre Soecial Make-Up Designed by ...... Stan Wi nston A ss istant Choreographers . ... Carlton Johnson, Mabel Robinson ;:~ rod uced on the New York Stage by ...... Ken Harper Special Effects ...... AI Griswold Art Director ...... Ph ilip Rosenberg Stunt Coordinator ...... Everett Creach A-ssistant Art Director ...... John Jay Moore Property Master ...... Connie Brink Set Decorators ...... Edward St ewart, Robert Drumheller Construction Chief ...... Wal ter Way Cnief Scenic Art ists ...... Eugene Powell, Edward Garzero Co nst ruction Grip ...... Glen Engels ~ antasy Props ...... Eoin Sprott , Richard T autkus Carpenter...... Ca rlos Quiles ::,ying Rigs ...... Peter Foy TOTO Owned and T ra ined by .. ..D awn Animal Agency of N.Y. tusic Rerecording Engineer ...... : ...... Bru ce Swedien Motorcycles Furnished by ...... Su zuki Special Sound Consu ltant ...... Gu y Cost a Orchestra Conduct ed by ...... Robert N. Tucker, Jr. Light f lex Equ ipment by ...... V ajra Incorporated Cnoir Arranged and Conducted by ...... Tom Bahler Yellow Brick Road Creat ed by ...... Congoleum Dance A rrangements by ...... Quincy Jones and Frank Owens ADDIT IONAL SON GS ,;ocal Arrangements by ...... Guiney Jones You Can't Win, Yo u Can 't Break Even Orchestration by .....Q u incy Jones, Pet e Meyers, Mendel Balitz, by Charlie Smalls Bob Freedman, Ralph Ferra ro, Greg McRitchie, Poppy Theme Bob Florence, Chr is Boardman, Dick Hazard, Wayne Robinson by Quincy Jones ::>roduction Manager ...... Kenneth Utt Emerald Ci ty Ballet r irst Assistant Director ...... Burtt Harris Music by Quincy Jones Second Assistant Direct or ...... Alan Hopkins Lyrics by Charlie Smalls 'wlatte Photography ...... Bill Taylor, Dennis Glouner Is This What Feeling Gets? Sound Mixer ...... J ames T . Sabat by Qu incy Jones, Nick A shford & V alerie Simpson Supervising Sound and Music Editor ...... Jack Fitzstephens Sound Editors...... St an Bochner, Marc M. L aub, Can I Go On No t Knowing? Hal Lev insohn, AI Nahmias, Ronald Roose by Qu incy Jones , Nick Ashfon!l & Valerie Simpson Assistant Film Editors ... . . Angelo Corrao, Marlayna Franklin Everybody Rejoice Costume Coordinators ....A nne Hill Johnstone, Gloria Gresham Music and Lyrics by

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