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If youre at all familiar withThe Wiz, elements of Charlie Smallss score hit with Pavlovian precision.
Yet its a particular kind of familiarity, given thatThe Wizis arguably both overlooked and omnipresent.
It succeeds more on the latter front than the former.
But although the talent is all over the stage, its also trapped in confused and even ugly packaging.
Her work is light and mischievous, if also, like the staging, short on grandeur.
Ruffin has also reworked some of the characters backstories.
The jokes are good, but as they pile up, they undermine the show.
Here, Ruffin and Williams shoo all the scary stuff away.
A show likeThe Wizneednt be a horror movie.
The closest the revival gets is during Dorothys big journey back to Kansas as she sings Home.
The Wizis at the Marquis Theatre.
