A Broadway Musical the black-themed musical itself. "The Wiz" proved to be Brown's only success. Following a dismal October–November tryout with Helen Gallagher and Julius LaRosa at the theatre in the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, the producers fired most of the cast and creative personnel, including director/choreographer George Faison. Gower Champion was called in to rescue the Broadway-bound production with only a month to go, but he feared that the show's defects were too serious to remedy and insisted on receiving a "Production supervised by" credit only. After 14 previews, the Broadway production opened and closed the same night at the Lunt-Fontanne
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Fetuchini" (inspired by Federico Fellini), the Nazi inspired "Adolph Hartner", and the British Tippy Skittles K.C.V.B. The "Negro Digest" positively reviewed the album in their September 1963 issue, highlighting the satire on Italian film directors as the "richest ore of humour in this platter". Referencing the character's imaginary film, "Rape", the "Negro Digest" wrote that "Everything is rape with Mr. Fetuchini. He loves it. And so will the listener". Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival is a live 1963 comedy album by the American comedians Carl