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News PHOTO CALL: The Wiz Cast Ready for Encores! Summer Stars Staging Ashanti, Orlando Jones and the company of the Encores! Summer Stars production of The Wiz are currently in rehearsals for the upcoming June 12-July 5 run at New York's City Center.

By Ernio Hernandez

June 02, 2009

Thomas Kail directs the the Charlie Smalls-William F. Brown musical with his Tony Award-winning In the Heights collaborators, Andy Blankenbuehler (choreographer) and Alex Lacamoire (musical director). Joining Ashanti (as Dorothy) and Jones (The Wiz) are LaChanze (Glinda), Tichina Arnold (Evillene), Dawnn Lewis (Addaperle), Joshua Henry (Tinman), James Monroe Iglehart (Lion) and Christian White (Scarecrow).

Here is a first look at the cast:

Ashanti, Orlando Jones and Co. of Encores! The Wiz

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Ashanti, Orlando Jones and the company of the Encores! Summer Stars production of *The Wiz* are currently in rehearsals for the upcoming June 12-July 5 run at New York's City Center.
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LaChanze, Ashanti, Dawnn Lewis and Tichina Arnold

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Ashanti James Monroe Iglehart, Orlando Jones, Ashanti, Christian White and Joshua Henry

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Orlando Jones and Ashanti

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