tiger haynes played the tin man in the original broadway production of the wiz: the super soul musical "wonderful wizard of oz".
tiger haynes played the tin man in the original broadway production of the wiz: the super soul musical "wonderful wizard of oz".
who played the tin man in the original broadway production of the wiz: the super soul musical "wonderful wizard of oz"?
tiger haynes
the song was performed in the original broadway production by stephanie mills (dorothy), hinton battle (scarecrow), tiger haynes (tin man), and ted ross (cowardly lion), who also perform the song on the original 1975 cast album for "the wiz". the song was a number-one disco hit for five non-consecutive weeks in a recording by the disco studio group consumer rapport. produced by stephen y. scheaffer and "the wiz" musical arranger harold wheeler, the consumer rapport version hit the "billboard" soul singles chart, peaking at #19 and the hot 100, peaking at #42.









































section::::history.:diana ross/michael jackson version.
ease on down the road
her first major break was playing the role of dorothy in "the wiz live!", a televised program based on the 1975 tony award-winning, broadway theatrical production, "the wiz: the super soul musical "wonderful wizard of oz"", which reinvented american author l. frank baum's 1900 novel, "the wonderful wizard of oz" as an african-american story. williams was selected for the role through an open casting call when she was 18-years-old. the production is a collaboration between the nbc broadcast network and the theatrical division of cirque du soleil.
shanice williams (actress)