{"id":2089,"date":"2009-05-01T00:25:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2009-05-01T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:25:45","slug":"ashanti-plays-dorothy-in-the-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ashanti&#8221; Plays Dorothy in The Wiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2090\" title=\"ashanti\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ashanti.jpg\" alt=\"ashanti\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ashanti.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ashanti-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>R&amp;B singer Ashanti has been confirmed to play Dorothy in the musical <em>The Wiz<\/em> which will run in New York this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The musical, which made its Broadway debut in 1975, won seven Tony Awards and was made into a movie in 1978. Quincy Jones produced the movie\u2019s soundtrack, with Michael Jackson playing Scarecrow and Diana Ross as Dorothy.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiz, which is based on the book <em>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/em> by L. Frank Baum, will run from June 12 through July 5 at New York City Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycitycenter.org\" target=\"_self\">www.nycitycenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&amp;B singer Ashanti has been confirmed to play Dorothy in the musical The Wiz which will run in New York this summer.<br \/>\nThe musical, which made its Broadway debut in 1975, won seven Tony Awards and was made into a movie in 1978. Quincy Jones produced the movie\u2019s soundtrack, with Michael Jackson playing Scarecrow and Diana [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}