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WATCH: Queen Latifah is Smoking Hot as the Great and Powerful Wiz
Latifah joins Uzo Aduba, Amber Riley, Mary J. Blige, Shanice Williams, and Stephanie Mills for NBC's live version of The Wiz
We're pretty sure The Wiz is not something that is intended to get us excited -- in that way -- but queen Latifah is in glittery emerald Wizard of Oz drag in the promo for the NBC's live version of The Wiz (airing Dec. 3), and it's definitely hot.
Latifah plays the actual Wiz, while Mary J. Blige takes on Evilene (the equivalent of the Wicked Witch of the West), Orange Is the New Black's Uzo Aduba plays Glinda while Glee's Amber Riley plays her sister Addaperle, and finally, newcomer Shanice Williams is Dorothy while the original Broadway Dorothy Stephanie Mills plays Auntie Em.
Now this is a televised live musical we can get behind!
Watch the trailer below.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
