We're Doing The Wiz 2 - The Black Wizard of Oz

Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Fiction

4.4 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It’s audition time at PVPA. Will students get the parts they want? Will it come down to race, talent or both? And is anyone giving Dorothy?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia.
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0:50.4	Period.
0:55.7	So I think the question at hand is,
0:59.1	who's going to narrate what parts of this story?
1:23.8	When my classmate and now co-producer Ian Koss approached me about this idea to tell the story of our high school production of The Wiz, I had no idea what to expect.
1:30.9	I thought he would just interview me, but he asked me to join the show's creative team.
1:38.1	We shared notes about our time at PVPA, did interviews with our classmates and teachers together,
1:45.5	but there was always that question in the back of our minds, the same question that loomed over our high school production. Who should tell this story? And I always felt that it was going to unfold and become
1:55.2	something different than just telling the story of that time our high school did the whiz. So that's part of why I didn't feel like so attached of like, I need to start and this is what, you know, I went through. I felt like we would find the story in the process.
2:21.0	So what is it that we're finding now,
2:24.7	or what is it that you're finding now,
2:26.8	about how we approach this next step in the process?
2:31.3	Well, I wanted to share this with you because it gets a little too deep. Yeah, yeah.
2:37.0	I was talking to my aunt. She has no idea that we're doing this project, only my mother,
2:44.1	and also has no idea about the experience at PVPA with the KKK impersonation.
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