But Dorothy doesn't want to, because-well, she's scared, I guess. Dorothy (Diana Ross) here is a 24-year-old Harlem schoolteacher, and as the story opens we are treated to scenes of her Aunt Em telling her to switch her kindergarten students for high schoolers, move out of the house, and basically get on with her life. But for every "West Side Story," we get something like.well, like this. Indeed, nothing is wrong with the concept-revisions and re-imaginings can work, and have been part of music theater for almost as long as the genre has existed.
I'm sure the idea for "The Wiz" looked good on paper: a modern, all-black musical retelling of "The Wizard of Oz," with the boroughs of New York subbing in for the Emerald City and environs.
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