The Wiz

Hello, there. This is my son. Good to see you.

Hello, Gil. How you doin'?

Dorothy, this here's Gil Warren.

Gil Warren, hi.

lt's so good to see you.

Don't worry, Gil. She's just a little shy.

l got you.

Auntie, I brought you some tea.

Look! Here they come! Come on, they're coming ! Look!

Move, now, we're getting ready to set the table, you all.

Take these checkers someplace else.

Come on, sweetie.

Here, you take these checkers.

Come on, Henry, be careful, now.

Come on.

Take your uncle's checkers.

Oh, man, you always drop the checkers when l'm. . .

That's the way you win games!

Why do you have to drop. . .

Toto! Toto. . .

There you go. You're such a. . .

Put your arms around me, child

Like when you bumped your shin

Then you'll know l love you now

As I loved you then

Though you may be trying sometimes

and I'll need you and you're not there

You know I may get mad

and turn away

But you know that I still care

Don't lose the feeling that we have

Though you're growing older now

And l'm watching you grow

l know I make you sad sometimes

And I see your feelings show

But one day I'll look around

And you will be grown

You'll be out in the world, such a pretty girl

But you'll be on your own

And l'd like to know it's there

The feeling that we have

Knowing that you can come to me

Whenever you are sad

Child, l'd like to know it's there

The feeling that we have

Don't lose the feeling that we have

Lose it, Iose it

l don't even know the first thing

About what they're feeling

What am I afraid of?

Don't know what l'm made of

Can I go on not knowing?

Feeling. . .

Something tells me that it's more than I can deal with

Though I never knew the song

Some words still catch on

Like caring

And sharing

Being together

No matter

Can I go on not knowing?

Don't know what l'm made of

Why am I afraid of

feeling?

Feeling. . .

lf I dared to take a chance

Would someone lead me?

(ON TV) Emergency snow alert is now in effect.

No automobiles are to be driven without snow tires or chains.

Winds up to 45 miles per hour. . .

That was a great dinner, Emma.

That baby. . .

You're a grandpa.

Our daughter's fine.

But Dorothy. . .

Give it time, honey. Give it time.

Those dishes ain't gonna wash themselves.

Mrs. Warren's son looks real fine, don't he?

Aunt Em, please, no more matchmaking.

Did you make the decision about that new school yet?

lt's no decision to make.

But, honey, it's a chance for you to teach in a high school.

Get away from that kindergarten once and for all.

lt's more money.

But besides the money, it's a chance for you to be with older students.

Almost adults.

l like it with the kids, Aunt Em.

Oh, I know you do, honey.

And you're a fine teacher,

but that's why l think you'd enjoy teaching high school.

Have a chance to be with the students for four years.

lt's such an important time in their development.

l'm really happy with the kids, Aunt Em.

But you've been there for three years already.

lt's time you got out of that sandbox

and into some new people, new neighborhood.

Girl, do you know you're 24 years old, and you've never

been south of 125th Street? Never been south of 125th Street.

Well, you haven't.

Oh, here we go again.

Why do you get me so worked up

that l'm beginning to sound like a Jewish mother?

l can't see how going south of 125th Street

ever made anybody's life better.

And you're never gonna know unless you try, are you?

Come on, Aunt Em, let me do that. Why don't you go and relax?

l can do. . . Let me do that.

Listen, I know getting out in that world ain't easy.

Leaving Uncle Henry and me. . .

But we'll always be here for you, Dorothy,

and whatever your fears are,

well, they'll be defeated just by facing up to them.

Now, you take that new job and find a place for you and Toto.

lt's time for you to make a home of your own.

Toto! Oh, Toto!

Toto! Toto!

Toto!

Toto! Toto!

Toto!

Toto, where are you? Toto! Toto! Toto!

Toto. Toto.

Toto, Toto, Toto. . .

Where am l?

Two, two, two. . .

Two, four, six, eight! Who do we appreciate?

No! No! Relax, mama.

Lay back, honey.

We just wanna lay a little thanks on you. What?

You know, heavy on the gratitude department.

Gratitude? For what? For curling the curse.

For leveling the leech.

For killing our oppressor.

I never killed nothing in my life. Never killed a point?

Never killed a pint? A good story?

The umpire? No!

Never killed no time?

No, I told you l never killed nothing in my life!

Well, then, I think you just graduated

from the bush leagues into the majors, girl.

Toto?

Can you dig this?

Who is it?

Ain't no more "is." Thanks to you, it's a "was."

She was Evamean.

The Wicked Witch from the East.

And they didn't call her Evamean for nothing.

She was the Parks Department Commissioner.

Caught us painting on her playground wall.

Turned us into graffiti.

And there we stayed.

Flat, splat and stuck like that.

Doomed as cartoons forever.

Till you burned alphabet through the sky and ended the curse.

And the curseress.

Giving a new lease on life to us, the Munchkins.

Most recently referred to as the cursees.

Toto.

Let's hear it for super witch and her wonder dog !

Two, four, six, eight! Who do we appreciate?

Miss One!

Come to mama, you hot little digits!

Let me lay my twenty-twenties on you.

Oh, how I love you. Let me count the ways.

lnnumerable blessings, countless felicitations.

Thank you beyond number and additional good stuff!

l didn't mean to. . . l didn't mean to kill her.

MlSS ON E: Oh, don't be at all sixes and sevens, honey.

You did the world a multitudinous service by eighty-sixing old Evamean.

Bottom line, honey, this chick put the "ugh" in "ugly."

But she sure had pretty shoes, didn't she?

l don't want these shoes. l wanna go home.

Oh, I wouldn't discount those shoes, honey,

and don't ever take them off until you do get home.

Remember, Miss One told you. Oh, pardon me.

Miss One's the name, and if you haven't guessed by now,

numbers is my game.

And now that you've freed us, we can all go back to running our business.

We can all go back to running our business.

We can all go back to running our business!

But where am l? Where am l?

You're in Munchkinland !

The indivisible land of Oz!

Oz?

But where's my home? Where's Aunt Em? Where's New York?

New York?

433 Prospect Place.

Four, three, three.

You wanna play more than one number today, honey?

l got a freedom special, three numbers for the price of one.

No, I don't wanna play any numbers. l just wanna get home!

Oh, well, now that old Evamean's number's up,