BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR tells the story of Harlem in its Golden Years. Taking many of the great songs from the era, Loften Mitchell weaves an ebullient tale of a time gone by. This musical, which started a whole wave of Broadway shows by and about black composers, had its beginnings at Rosetta LeNoire's Amas Rep. It then moved on to a lengthy run on Broadway, London's West End, and both national and European tours. ..". a] really fizzy musical revue ... recreates the night life of the 1920s - when they drank 'scotch in teacups' and bathtub gin - and the 1930s, from downtown speakeasies to the...
BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR tells the story of Harlem in its Golden Years. Taking many of the great songs from the era, Loften Mitchell weaves an ebullient t...
TELL PHARAOH is the story of Harlem, our nation's foremost black community. "A masterpiece. Right on " -Lloyd Strayhorn, Jr, New York Amsterdam News "Mitchell reached his artistic heights as a dramatist in TELL PHARAOH, an eloquent 'theater-at-the-lectern' history of black people." -Darwin T Turner, Contemporary Dramatists
TELL PHARAOH is the story of Harlem, our nation's foremost black community. "A masterpiece. Right on " -Lloyd Strayhorn, Jr, New York Amsterdam News "...