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re: THE WIZ -- not MUSIC MAN -- might be NBC's next live musical

Posted by:	enoch10 10:15 pm EST 01/16/15
In reply to:	re: THE WIZ -- not MUSIC MAN -- might be NBC's next live musical - Greg_M 05:25 pm EST 01/16/15

i disagree. THE WIZ is like disco. one of the great things about disco was that it so clearly sounded like exactly what it was; inner city urban, black, hispanic, and gay. in that order. THE WIZ isn't disco but it came out at the same time and was every bit as specific. again, THE WIZ isn't disco but it's gospel-based the way disco was gospel-based. anybody who heard the score for THE WIZ for the first time when it was new automatically located the music as coming from exactly where it came from. that was kinda the whole point. no one's saying no white actors anywhere (there are certainly whites in the inner city and some made contributions to that sound) but the music of THE WIZ, i think, inherently makes it speak to/for an urban sensibility. one of the great joys of that kind of music made at that specific time was that it managed to be that specific without being exclusionary. as did THE WIZ.

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