Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) Kei te whakanui a NBC i tana kēmu puoro ora. I panuitia e te whatunga i te Mane ko "The Wiz" hei whakaaturanga puoro ora e whai ake nei <unk> me te Cirque du Soleil e eke ana ki te kaupapa me nga mahere ki te kawe i te whakaaturanga ki Broadway i te tau 2016. Ko te "The Wiz" a NBC, i whakaritea mo te Taite, Tihema 3, ka whakaputahia ano e Sound of Music me Peter Pan duo Craig Zadan me Neil Meron, me te kaiwhakahaere toa Tony a Kenny Leon e hono ana ki te whakahaere i te huihuinga ora me te whakaoranga Broadway i te 2016-17. Ko te toa Tony me te tohu Broadway a Harvey Fierstein ka whai rauemi hou ki te pukapuka taketake na William F. Brown ka mahi tahi me Zadan, Meron me Leon. I riro i a Leon te Tohu Tony 2014 mo te whakahaere i te "A Raisin in the Sun", a i whakaingoatia ia mo te "Fences". Ko Fierstein, hei kaituhi, i toa i a Tony mo "La Cage Aux Folles" me "Torch Song Trilogy". Kua tuhia hoki e ia ngā pukapuka mō ngā waiata rongonui tae atu ki "Kinky Boots" me "Newsies". Hei kaiwhakaari, kua riro i a ia a Tony mo te kaiwhakaari pai rawa atu i roto i te waiata ("Hairspray") me te kaiwhakaari pai rawa atu i roto i te whakaari ("Torch Song"). "Kei te aroha mātou ki tēnei tikanga ā-tau, ā, kei te tino harikoa mātou i mua atu, ehara i te mea hei kawe i tētahi atu waiata Broadway ki ngā ruma noho o Amerika, engari hei kite hoki i a ia e tau ana ki Broadway", te kī a te tumuaki o NBC Entertainment, a Bob Greenblatt. "He taahiraa e whai ake nei mo a maatau huihuinga puoro ora, a he tino harikoa matou ki te mahi tahi me tenei roopu auaha toa me Scott Zeiger, perehitini me te kaiwhakahaere kaiwhakahaere o te tari whakaari hou o Cirque du Soleil. Ka āwhina te whakaaro nui o Cirque ki te kawe mai i te ao moemoea o Oz ki te ora, ā, ka hoatu ki tēnei whakaaturanga nui he hurihanga hōu ki te kōrero tawhito e arohaina ana e tātou katoa". Ko ngā waiata o Broadway kua waiata ki te mata nui. Ka hui anō a Zadan rāua ko Meron ki a Leon, nā rātou i mahi i runga i "Steel Magnolias" me "A Raisin in the Sun". Ka whakaputaina e Universal Television. Ka pānuitia te kōti mo te whakaaturanga NBC me te mahinga Broadway o Cirque i muri mai. Ko te "The Wiz" he mea whakarite mai i te "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" a L. Frank Baum, me te pukapuka a Brown...
Ka whai ake a NBC i te "Sound of Music" me te "Peter Pan" me te "The Wiz" i te marama o Tihema. Whai muri i te whakaaturanga i runga i te pouaka whakaata ora, ka hoki mai te waiata ki Broadway. Ko te "The Wiz" he kōrero anō o "The Wizard of Oz" i roto i tētahi horopaki ahurea maha.