New character portraits for The Wiz Live!, NBC’s upcoming three-hour TV event, have just been released. After The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live!, NBC is going to Oz for this year’s special holiday event. Here’s a first look at Uzo Aduba as Glinda, Queen Latifah as The Wiz, and Common as Bouncer, the Emerald City gatekeeper. The 3-hour live production also stars Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo, Amber Riley, David Alan Grier, Stephanie Mills, and rising star Shanice Williams as Dorothy. Ease on down the road. Watch.

Stephanie Mills is Auntie Em. 40 years ago she played Dorothy
in the original Broadway production of The Wiz
(via EW)