Battle, a three-time Tony award-winner, died last week aged 67. His co-star in The Wiz, the hit musical riffing on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, remembers a remarkable performer Before The Wiz opened on Broadway in January 1975 we put the show together on a three-city preview tour. The first stop was my home town, Baltimore. My mother and sisters cooked for us at our rowhouse. Hinton had been cast as a member of the ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM on February 6, 2024