THE WIZ LIVE!'s Paul Tazewell Wins Creative Emmy Award for Best Costumes

By: Sep. 11, 2016
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NBC's holiday production of THE WIZ LIVE this year garnered six EMMY AWARD nominations. At tonight's Creative Emmy Awards ceremony, Paul Tazewell picked up the award for Outstanding Costumes For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program.

Tazewell won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for HAMILTON. His other Broadway credits include Doctor Zhivago, Side Show, A Streetcar Named Desire, Magic/Bird, Jesus Christ Superstar, Memphis, The Miracle Worker, The Color Purple, In the Heights, On The Town, Caroline, or Change, Guys and Dolls, Drowning Crow, A Raisin in the Sun, Elaine Strich at Liberty, Def Poetry Jam, and Noise/Funk.

He is the recipient of five Tony nominations, two Lucille Lortel Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards and the Princess Grace Statue Award.

Check out a full list of the night's Creative Emmy Award winners HERE!

The live broadcast of THE WIZ LIVE also earned Emmy noms for Outstanding Production Design (Derek McLane), , Outstanding Makeup and Hair For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program, Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction For A Variety Special and Outstanding Technical Direction For A Variety Special (Matthew Diamond.)

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THE WIZ LIVE! aired live on December 3rd, 2016. The show starred newcomer Shanice Williamsas Dorothy alongside Grammy and Golden Globe-winner Queen Latifah as the Wizard, nine-time Grammy-winner Mary J. Blige as Evillene, original Dorothy, Stephanie Mills, as Auntie Em and David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion.

"The Wiz Live!" was adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, with a book by William F. Brown, and music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("The Sound of Music Live!," "Peter Pan Live!") served as executive producers. Tony winner Kenny Leon directed with Harvey Fierstein providing new written material. Fatima Robinson served as choreographer. "The Wiz" tells the classic story hundreds of millions of people have read in the L. Frank Baumbooks and then saw in the much-beloved 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," but retold in an African-American/multicultural context.

Photo: Virginia Sherwood/NBC



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