Amber Ruffin on Adapting The Wiz for 2024: "It's Not Like Dorothy's Holding an iPad"
Amber Ruffin remembers her first time watching the Sidney Lumet movie The Wiz, in the basement of the family home. "On the big TV. We had one big TV," she told Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek on The Broadway Show. As Ruffin explained, as a young Black girl, The Wiz"an all-Black take on The Wizard of Oz""just expanded how you thought about what entertainment could be." Young Amber was also struck by the f…
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