A live stage version of the Tony award winning musical. Basically it's just "The Wizard of OZ' with an all black cast. It's done on a stage but no audience.
I've seen the original stage musical and the movie and love both but this is TERRIBLE! First of all they try to update it but adding in contemporary slang and social media. The "new" dialogue wasn't funny or cute--just annoying. When one of the witches pulled out a tablet to use I almost turned it off. Second all is the casting. Nobody is really bad. They can all sing and dance but their acting is WAY over the top. They start at 11 and keep on going. This works fine on stage but not on TV. It's too much. Queen Latifah especially gets loud. Mary J. Blige is lousy as Evilene. She has the show-stopping "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News". She's OK singing but her acting is terrible. Her attempts at being evil are downright laughable. Constant commercial interruptions didn't help. This works as a PLAY with one interruption. Throwing in a commercial every 10 minutes disrupts any flow the show might have had. I turned it off during the last hour. I was bored and disgusted. Stick with the movie.
I've seen the original stage musical and the movie and love both but this is TERRIBLE! First of all they try to update it but adding in contemporary slang and social media. The "new" dialogue wasn't funny or cute--just annoying. When one of the witches pulled out a tablet to use I almost turned it off. Second all is the casting. Nobody is really bad. They can all sing and dance but their acting is WAY over the top. They start at 11 and keep on going. This works fine on stage but not on TV. It's too much. Queen Latifah especially gets loud. Mary J. Blige is lousy as Evilene. She has the show-stopping "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News". She's OK singing but her acting is terrible. Her attempts at being evil are downright laughable. Constant commercial interruptions didn't help. This works as a PLAY with one interruption. Throwing in a commercial every 10 minutes disrupts any flow the show might have had. I turned it off during the last hour. I was bored and disgusted. Stick with the movie.