Quote Originally Posted by smark21 View Post
The Wiz has been a midnight screening every so often at the Sunshine Theater down in the East village. Movies that play midnights at the Sunshine tend to be cult movies with a campy quality for people to laugh at. And I think it was shown at BAM a couple of years back for a Michael Jackson tribute.

Bokiluis, you should probably use a different term than “inner city” in describing where The Wiz does get a screening. That term is usually a euphemism for the poor African American part of a large city.

AS for The Wiz, I wonder if it could have been better if it had a different director. Sidney Lumet specialized in well written dramas. Musicals were not his forte. Maybe if The Wiz had been directed by someone with a better grounding in the conventions of the musical genre, it might have been better.
Point taken. But let it be known that I lived in Néw York for 20 years and "The Wiz" definitely played[[s) at the Chelsea Cinema on either 21st or 23rd St. as part of their midnight classics.