We see only one of Dewey's patients, a young man named Wellman, who is unlucky in love, until he realizes in the play's finale that the girl he spotted and has been trying to find ever since is actually Leslie.
Brown was commissioned by producer Ken Harper to adapt L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into African American street slang.
Incorporating the music of Charlie Smalls, The Wiz opened on Broadway in January 1975, with the starring performers Stephanie Mills and André De Shields directed by Geoffrey Holder.
The play was highly successful, running for over 1,600 performances and winning seven Tony awards, and was later adapted as a 1978 film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
[5][6] A Single Thing in Common is set in an apartment known as "the playpen" by swinging seventies types Richard Sloan, Linda Schneider, and Mike Jarvis.
The show was inspired by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's real-life experiences with their 1964 Broadway production of Golden Boy.