Stephanie Mills will follow the yellow brick road once again in NBC's live musical version of The Wiz.
NBC has announced plans for its follow-up to The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live! to air this December as a prelude to a Broadway revival.
NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt made his first major casting announcement for the show at the Upfronts today (May 11) by confirming that Mills will play Dorothy Gale's aunt Em.
Mills played the role of Dorothy Gale in the original Broadway run of The Wiz, and later went on to win Grammy and American Music Awards.
Greenblatt also indicated that producers are looking for a newcomer to take the lead role of Dorothy in The Wiz Live.
NBC is teaming up with Cirque du Soleil, as well as writer and actor Harvey Fierstein, to update the stage musical, which airs on NBC on December 3.
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The Wiz, an adaptation of L Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz, made its debut on Broadway in 1975.
NBC had previously announced plans to adapt Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey's The Music Man. It is unclear if that musical will still go ahead.
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