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Video: Amber Ruffin on THE WIZ- 'It's Outstanding!'
May 16, 2024
While the Wiz eases down the roads of America, Amber Ruffin, who provides additional material for the new revival, is getting ready for it to slide into its limited engagement on Broadway. In this video, watch as Amber Ruffin teases the new project!
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Tell me what it's been to you to work on Broadway
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I mean, to become a part of the Broadway family and the theater family, what that's meant to you
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It's so strange because I thought it was going to be this big barrier and these like gatekeeper-y folks
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They don't nobody care. They're like, you did that too? Hey, come here. They're so like welcoming and sweet
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Way more than I thought. Yeah. Yeah. Some Like It Hot will remain one of my favorite musicals
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from now until eternity. What did you enjoy the most about working
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with Matthew Lopez on that? Of course, with Scott and Mark. You know, I liked that we all kind of sat around
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and we're like, what if it was this? Well, what if it was this? And it sort of felt like a TV writer's room in a way
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And that I think is the way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile, I'm working by myself on The Wiz
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so let me shut up. Let's talk about The Wiz. The Wiz, one of my all-time favorite shows of all time
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Stored at the Majestic, stored at the Broadway many, many times. How much joy is that giving you
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working on this new production of The Wiz that is coming to Broadway? It's, The Wiz is so outstanding
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And you know, they're all like, when you do interviews under promise and over-deliver
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no dice, it is the best. It's the friggin', it's fantastic. I cannot over, it's outstanding
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It really is. Okay, you just opened in Baltimore, right? Yeah. Okay, what was it like adding the audience into that
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of all the people who love The Wiz and discovering The Wiz for the very first time
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I was so scared. Were you? Yes, because I thought that it would be
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because when we are watching The Wiz, when we are watching our rehearsals, we're friggin' standing up and shouting
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and these are our little friends, we know them. So then I thought, oh, the regular audience
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is gonna be so quiet compared to us. No. No, they're not
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No, they're not, they are just as rowdy as we are. It's very fun
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It must be so great, because I fell in love with that as a kid, 1975. Bringing it to a new generation
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and a new take on what that means to you with your spin on it
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Yeah, what I like to think I've done, is I like to think that I made it a timeless version
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The Wiz is extremely 70s, which is cool and fun and good
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And then other iterations of it have been of its specific time
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But I like to think we just washed away all of the 70s slang and all the iPads and stuff
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and was just like, you can take this show, and you can do it 30 years from now
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and you don't have to change a word. And now you've done that. Yeah, that's my hope
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What's been the biggest pinch-me moment for you? You've worked with everybody in every genre
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working on The Wiz. The biggest pinch-me moment for you was what so far
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Just seeing the, I feel like my biggest pinch-me moment working on The Wiz was just seeing my goofy
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goofy, goofy jokes lead into some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard
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I just got goosebumps from the bottom of my feet to the top of my bald head. Oh, buddy, when you hear these songs
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I mean, you're gonna lose it. It's the music. The music has always been the star of The Wiz
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And this is no different. It's absolutely, it's untouchable, this music. I can't wait
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Thank you as always. I'll be there way before them, I can't
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