When Michael Jackson was a child ... wrote in her 2004 autobiography "A Paper Life." "He'd played the Scarecrow in The Wiz, the urban remake of The Wizard of Oz, which starred Diana Ross as ...
“The Wiz” runs from Tuesday ... My mom was a fan of Diana Ross (the movie Dorothy) and Michael Jackson (the movie Scarecrow). I remember listening to the soundtrack of the 1978 musical ...
Lena Horne and Richard Pryor as the Wiz. Michael Jackson co-starred as the Scarecrow, with Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man and Ted Ross as the Lion. NBC televised a live version in 2015 with Queen ...