Question: who plays the tin man on the wiz
Answer: Along the way to the Emerald City , Dorothy , Toto , and the Scarecrow meet the Tin Man ( Nipsey Russell ) , in an abandoned early 20th - century amusement park and the Cowardly Lion ( Ted Ross ) , a vain dandy banished from the jungle who hid inside one of the stone lions in front of the New York Public Library .