Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 6, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
Opened Feb 6, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
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Running Time:
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Whoopi Goldberg and Charles S. Dutton star in a revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by Marion McClinton. Set in a recording studio in Chicago in 1927, the play focuses on singer Ma Rainey (Goldberg) as she and her band record a few songs. Levee (Dutton), the band's talented and tempermental trumpet player, aspires to someday move beyond his role as Ma Rainey's backup and have his own band. The play follows the band's attempts to successfully complete the recording session despite interpersonal conflicts within the band, Ma Rainey's trouble with the law, and power struggles between Ma and the record company.
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In some ways, music is everything to August Wilson. That fascination is signaled in more than a few titles of the nearly completed 10-play cycle examining the African-American experience to which the dramatist has yet to attach an umbrella moniker. Consider The Piano Lesson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, and the work that made his name in 1984: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which unfolds in a recording studio during an imagined 1927 session presided over by the eponymous "Mother of the Blues." Wilson writes in an introduction to the play, "It is hard to define this music. Suffice it to say it is music that breathes and touches. That connects. That is in itself a way of being,[...]