Even Toto is featured on the first poster for NBC’s The Wiz Live! directed by Kenny Leon and Matthew Diamond. The new poster features the lead characters traveling the yellow brick road that leads to Emerald City. David Alan Grier plays the Cowardly Lion, Shanice Williams is Dorothy, Ne-Yo stars as Tinman, and Elijah Kelly is Scarecrow in the upcoming musical event which will air on December 3, 2015.
The cast also includes Common as Emerald City’s gatekeeper, Queen Latifah as the Wiz, Mary J. Blige as Wicked Witch of the West, Uzo Aduba as Good Witch of the South, Amber Riley as Good Witch of the North, and Stefanie Mills as Auntie Em. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive producing.
