Black and Blue - Broadway 1989
is a musical revue celebrating the black culture of dance and music in Paris between World War I and World War II. Based on an idea by Mel Howard and conceived by Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia, it consists of songs by artists such as W. C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, and Big Maybelle and skits peppered with bits of bawdy humor. It first was presented at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris in 1985. The Broadway production opened on January 26, 1989 at the Minskoff Theatre and closed on January 20, 1991 after 829 performances and 32 previews. Directed by Orezzoli and Segovia and choreographed by Henry LeTang, Cholly Atkins, Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas the cast of forty-one singers, dancers, and musicians included Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins,Carrie Smith, Savion Glover, Claude Williams, Roland Hanna, Grady Tate, Jimmy Slyde, Bill Easley,Jimmy "Preacher" Robins, Lon Chaney (the jazz tap dancer, not the actor) and Bunny Briggs. The score included "St. Louis Blues," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "In a Sentimental Mood," "Am I Blue?," "Stompin' at the Savoy," and the title tune. The original cast recording won a Grammy Award. Following the Broadway engagement, Howard took Black and Blue on two European tours, performing at such venues as The Chatelet Theater in Paris, The Thalia in Hamburg, Theater des Westens in Berlin, The Deutsches Theater in Munich, and The Carre Theater in Amsterdam. Black and Blue (Dec 1989) Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, Carrie Smith-Minskoff Theatre.
Black and Blue (Musical) Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, Carrie Smith-Minskoff Theatre
Playbill / Program Date Dec 1989
Run: Jan 26, 1989 - Jan 20, 1991
Size 215 x 135 mm Pages 98
Condition: Used Fair to Good
(Shows signs of aging and some slight yellowing)
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