Blues for an Alabama Sky
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April 6 – May 8, 2022
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem, 1930. Where the Blues are getting bluer and the gin is running dry. A free-spirited Cotton Club singer has just been fired with nowhere left to go but down. So, she turns to her best friend, an extravagant costume designer with plans to dress Josephine Baker in Paris. Maybe they can run away together. Or maybe the handsome southerner that just came knocking can offer an even better life. But the saxophone dreams of Harlem rarely end as smoothly as they start.
The legendary Phylicia Rashad (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) directs the fearlessly bold, intoxicatingly seductive, and surprisingly contemporary Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage (Oprah’s Book Club selection What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day) that’s so ahead of its time, it’s right on time.
Creative Team
Written by Pearl Cleage
Directed By Phylicia Rashad
Scenic Design John Iacovelli
Costume, Wig, and Hair Design Wendell C. Carmichael
Lighting Design Elizabeth Harper
Sound Design Jeff Gardner
Original Music Dontae Winslow
Casting Kim Coleman, CSA
Production Stage Manager Michelle Blair
cast
Joe Holt
Nija Okoro
Dennis Pearson
Greg Alverez Reid
Kim Steele
OFF SALE
Set in 1930s Harlem, this revival of Pearl Cleage’s rich and beautiful work runs at the Mark Taper Forum April 6 through May 8, 2022, with opening night set for April 13, 2022.
Center Theatre Group has announced a Black Out Night for the Friday, April 8, 2022, 8 p.m.
Tickets for all other performances of “Blues for an Alabama Sky” are currently on sale at Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum and start at $30.