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It's December. The Blacklist has aired its midseason finale. Therefore: it's time for another live musical event on NBC!
This year, the show is The Wiz, featuring David Alan Grier as The Cowardly Lion, Uzo Aduba as Glinda, Ne-Yo as Tin-Man, Queen Latifah as the titular Wiz, and many more you can see in this sneak peek at the production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97m0soGP1oU
And in case you still have bad memories of the AWKWARD SILENCEs that dotted last year's live production of Peter Pan, good news! This one has been tweaked so it actually plays on TV without pausing for applause from an audience that isn't actually there.
As we did with Lifetime's Unauthorized Beverly Hills 90210 Story, we'll be live-tweeting The Wiz Live! from our special-event Twitter feed, @PreviouslyTVNow. Follow us now and join us on Thursday for the first one of these that might actually be legitimately good and not a weird pop culture curiosity.
The Wiz Live! premieres at 8 PM ET on Thursday, December 3, on NBC.