Let’s Recast The Wiz: Our Picks For The 2015 Remake

Dorothy Gale: In the black version of Frank L. Baum’s classic tale, Dorothy was a 24-year-old sheltered schoolteacher, who “never been south of 125th Street.” And she was played no other than by the incomparable and fabulous Diana Ross. I know everybody is thinking Beyonce because she can dance, sing and is a diva too like Ms. Ross. But that’s too obvious and no one is trying to hear her recite Dorothy’s lines in that horrible faux Houston accent while doing that shoulder bounce thing she does and swinging her hair in leotards…because Beyonce is over the top. So let’s just let Beyonce do the soundtrack, mkay? And I know some of y’all are thinking about Rihanna but just stop thinking that. I mean, if we were casting The WIZ: All Over Your Face Adult Videos, than okay. But we are just going to have to let Jennifer “Effie-in-Every-Role” Hudson do it. No one can fake (?) the deer-in-headlights innocence needed for the role more than J Hud, just peep her as the real life version of a Disney Princess. And why hasn’t J Hud remade Home yet?