The pandemic-born company aims to create more opportunities for BIPOC, LGBTQ and women artists
Charles Small and William F. Brown’s 1975 “Super Soul Musical” adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz” was the first Broadway show Nichol’s mother ever saw, and its cast album was in near-constant rotation in their Chicago-area home as Nichol was growing up.
Director Chadae Nichol, far left, speaks with the cast of Teatro San Diego’s “The Wiz” during rehearsals.Teatro San Diego was launched in 2020 to provide more artistic opportunities for all, regardless of their ethnicity, gender or disability. Last summer, Teatro produced a filmed production of “Songs for a New World” that was remounted this summer in a coproduction with Oceanside Theatre Company. But “The Wiz” is Teatro’s first independently produced show for live audiences.
Teatro’s choreographer, Alyssa “Ajay” Junious, also has a personal connection to “The Wiz.” The native San Diegan performed her very first tap dance solo to the show’s “Ease On Down the Road” when she was 10.
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