The Broadway show The Wiz is soon to have a Broadway revival and a live television production. (Hey, did you know it was once almost a DC Comic? When the movie version was about to come out, they hired me to adapt it and I had to trudge up to Universal Studios and see a rough cut of the movie and then write an adaptation and they hired Dan Spiegle to draw it and when he was around page 26 or so, someone told them the film was going to be a bomb and they called Dan and told him to stop drawing because they weren't going to publish the comic. And they didn't. Dan, by the way, drew a dynamite Nipsey Russell.)
Anyway, it's always been an interesting bit of theater history how close that show — which won the Tony for Best Musical the year it debuted — came to closing in about three days. Playbill has just posted a 1975 article all about this for those of you who want to know the story.