Also credited on3 works
The Wiz
A Broadway Musical
The Wiz (2024 Revival)
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Chief among the show’s ills was the slapdash book by William F. Brown (The Wiz) about an acerbic white producer’s exploitation of a young black author and his locker-room basketball drama “about the exploitation of a human being” called The Final Point . In the end, crass Broadway commercialism triumphed as The Final Point got subverted i…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
- 54. The Wiz, book by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (New York: Samuel French, Inc., 1974, 1979 [rev]).ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt
- McWhinney, Michael Cohen, Tony Geiss, and Sidney Shaw sketches by Ronny Graham, Peter De Vries, William F. Brown, Kenny Solms, Gail Parent, Jack Sharkey, Robert Klein, and Normantheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- Kline; continuity and additional dialogue by William F. Brown “entire production conceived and staged by Leonardtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- THE WIZ Book, William F. Brown; Based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"; Music and Lyrics, Charlie Smalls; Director, Geoffrey Holder; Choreography and Musical Numbers staged by George Faison; Musical Direction, Tom Pierson; Settings, Tom H. John; Costumes, Geoffrey Holder; Lights, Tharon Musser; Orchestrations, Harold Wheele…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
- Book, William F. Brown; Based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"; Music and Lyrics, Charlie Smalls; Direction and Costumes, Geoffrey Holder; Setting, Tom H. John; Lighting, Tharon Musser; Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements, Charles H. Coleman; Choreography and Musical Numbers staged by George Faison; Manager, Jose Vega.…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
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