re: #328 lawhawk

So, NBC ran a live production of The Wiz last night. Watched it and was fascinated by the show in a way that its earlier live showings of the Sound of Music and Peter Pan didn’t.

It was genuinely good and engrossing. The cast more than matched the material, and the quality was fabulous.

And yet, there were plenty of racists out who thought that NBC did something weird to the story of the Wizard of Oz - that they purposefully blacked it or some other such nonsense. Yeah, these folks didn’t realize The Wiz was a hit Broadway show and then a movie back in the 1970s starring none other than Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

Ignorants gotta be ignorant.

It was a dick move to make Toto a pit bull.