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

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Herman Smith aka The Wiz: This one is easy: RuPaul. Why? Well because this role requires over-the top-ness, fabolousity, eleganza-extravaganza and other “made-up” words. RuPaul is fierce enough to teach them children of the Emerald City their colors (“I want to be seen. Green..wouldn’t be caught. Dead. Red…”) and yet can “butch” it up enough to play the timid Herman Smith (who was originally played by Richard Pryor). Besides I’m trying to see TeamRed and TeamGreen lip-sync for their lives…

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