Race Music
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 3, 2009
Closed Sep 19, 2009
Opened Sep 3, 2009
Closed Sep 19, 2009
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Race Music is set in a metropolitan Midwestern city in 1999. Lebron Malek, a 26 year-old classical music lover, applies for a radio-announcing position at a classical music radio station but is rejected because he is black. Six characters of varying colors and ancestral origins, struggle to come to terms with the changing racial landscape of our country in pre-Obama 1999.
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When it comes to hiring often ill-treated minorities, we all know about affirmative action. But should there be affirmative action in regard to flawed playwriting? One may feel that a certain amount of dispensations are called for with Warren Bodow's Race Music, now at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre, which is about African-American Lebron Malek (Brandon Jones), who is applying for an announcer's job at a large Midwestern city's classical music station run by the surprisingly and shockingly racist Harvey Kane (Chris Ceraso).
Lebron is not counting on affirmative action to land him the hifalutin deejay slot. Classical music is his first love, and he knows plenty about it and pronounces the [...]