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THE WIZ LIVE!
December 19, 2015  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
You actually can toggle between NBC and TNT tonight and go from one Wiz to another, because TNT is double-featuring back-to-back showings of The Wizard of Oz, while NBC has decided to repeat its recent live musical telecast of The Wiz Live! The cast includes Queen Latifah as the Wiz, Uzo Aduba as Glinda, Ne-Yo as the Tin Man, Elijah Kelley as the Scarecrow, and Shanice Williams as Dorothy, but the best performance comes, surprisingly, from David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion. And I ain’t lion…
 
 
 
 
 
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