Paul Tazewell

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386 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 7 Jun

Paul Tazewell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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All of those things, I think, were additive to create what I do now.

I played the title character.

I played The Wiz.

Oh, wow.

Not Dorothy.

But I played The Wiz.

I played The Wiz.

I wanted to be a...

A performer.

Once I was stung or bitten by the bug of theater, I really wanted to be a performer.

And costume design was a side gig.

I happened to be in a program where they put a lot of money into a public school to integrate.

And so whenever Wicked became available, the head of that program decided that we should do that.

And I think that was very smart of him because it was a largely black school.

All that true.

I have memories of that.

asking my dad to spray an ombre of rainbow colors on the Glinda cape on gold lame.

And he did his very best.

He was a research chemist for Firestone.

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