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Charlie Smalls (October 25, 1943 – August 27, 1987) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music and lyrics for playwright William F. Brown's 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz and the 1978 film version of the same name.
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum 's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the context of contemporary African-American culture .
3 de dez. de 2015 · Charlie Smalls And The Story Behind The Wiz. Charlie Smalls was born on October 25th, 1943 and passed away due to an emergency appendix surgery in 1987, at the age of 43. As a child, Smalls started playing piano at a very young age, and by the age of five was putting on piano concerts.
Beverly Hills. CHARLIE SMALLS, the man who bagged a Tony — on his first toss — for the score of “The Wiz,” turned out, on meeting him in person at the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, to be as robust and irresistible as his music. Only slightly less irresistible were the bagels, lox and stuffed eggs we couldn’t help but notice on the ...
Ease on Down the Road. " Ease on Down the Road " is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, an R&B re-interpretation of L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Charlie Smalls–composed tune is the show's version of both "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" and "We're Off to See the Wizard" from the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
Charlie Smalls (October 25, 1943 – August 27, 1987) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music and lyrics for The Wiz. Biography. Smalls started playing piano at a very young age, and by the age of five was putting on piano concerts.
21 de out. de 2015 · Queens-born Charlie Smalls may not have ever imagined himself as the composer and lyricist of a beloved Broadway classic before 1970, when producer Ken Harp er offered him the chance to write...
