Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live!, NBC’s next live musical will be The Wiz.

The live adaptation of The Wiz will be broadcast on NBC Thursday, December 3, 2015, NBC head Bob Greenblatt announced today. Cirque du Soleil will co-produce alongside Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

The Wiz musical was adapted from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The show’s script is by William F. Brown, with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

“We love this yearly tradition and we’re more excited than ever to not only bring another Broadway musical to America’s living rooms, but also see it land on Broadway as well,” said Greenblatt. “It’s a natural next step for our live musical events and we’re so pleased to be in business with this award-winning creative team and Scott Zeiger, President and Managing Director of Cirque du Soleil’s new theatrical division. Cirque’s incredible imagination will help bring the fantasy world of Oz vividly to life and give this great show a modern spin on the age-old story we all love.”

NBC’s description of The Wiz, which ran on Broadway for four years, is as follows:

“The Wiz” tells the classic story hundreds of millions of people have read in the L. Frank Baum books and then saw in the much-beloved 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz,” but retold in an African-American/multicultural context. Dorothy, a young woman from Kansas, is swept up in a tornado and relocated to a fantasy world that is inhabited by munchkins, good and bad witches, and, of course, flying monkeys. She eventually takes a path down a yellow brick road to find a wizard who can help her go home and along the way meets a scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion, who all learn to help one another.

The Wiz launched on Broadway in 1975 and won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical. For a sense of the show, check out this clip from the 1978 film in which “Ease On Down the Road” is performed: