Dorothy and her friends head down the Yellow Brick Road in a new teaser for 'The Wiz Live!'

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Here's your first look at Dorothy. NBC has released a new teaser trailer for The Wiz Live!, featuring newcomer Shanice Williams in all her red-sneakered glory - complete with her very own Toto.

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The first promo also shows Elijah Kelley as the Scarecrow, Ne-Yo as the Tin Man and David Alan Grier as the Cowardly Lion alongside Williams' Dorothy, all singing the musical's best-known number, "Ease on Down the Road."

NBC is giving the classic Broadway musical the live-action broadcast treatment, as the network previously did with Peter Pan and The Sound of Music. The live musical broadcast, directed by Kenny Leon, also stars Queen Latifah as The Wiz, Common as the Bouncer, Mary J. Blige as wicked witch Evillene and Uzo Aduba as Glinda.

The Wiz Live! airs on NBC on December 3rd at 8 p.m.

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