White Chocolate
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 6, 2004
Closed Jan 30, 2005
Opened Oct 6, 2004
Closed Jan 30, 2005
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Noted New Yorker magazine illustrator William Hamilton's new satirical play White Chocolate takes a humorous look into the lives of two society patrons (one Jewish, the other a blue-blood) who are shocked one morning to find that their skin color has changed overnight. Through the course of the day, Brandon Beale struggles to seal the deal on his new position as Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while his daughter returns home to announce her surprise engagement to an Asian man they've never met.
Directed by David Schweizer, the play is produced by The Culture Project and Allan Buchman, in association with Nile Rogers' We are Family Foundation. The show stars Reg E. Cathey, Julie Halston, Erik Laray Harvey, Paul H. Juhn, Samantha Soule and Lynn Whitfield.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Century Center for the Performing Arts
111 E 15th St
New York, NY 10003
This theater is housed in an historic building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. It was the original home of the Century Club, which was a home for actors, writers and artists. In 1997, it became the Century Center for the Performing Arts. It e [...] Read More
111 E 15th St
New York, NY 10003
This theater is housed in an historic building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. It was the original home of the Century Club, which was a home for actors, writers and artists. In 1997, it became the Century Center for the Performing Arts. It e [...] Read More
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Crafting a farce on racial identity is a dangerous prospect. White Chocolate, written by New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton, treads the fine line between tasteless and inspired, but the author's flair for comic writing and an incredibly game cast help to make the play a success.
The production begins in darkness as upper-class white couple Brandon Beale (Reg E. Cathey) and Deborah Beale (Lynn Whitfield) lie in bed worrying over whether or not Brandon will be appointed the new director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whitfield's Deborah speaks with a rather stereotypically Jewish New York accent, while Cathey's Brandon sounds a bit like Thurston Howell III, from Gilligan's Island. Whe[...]