Tutti Frutti: The Life and Music of Little Richard (A New Musical)

Tutti Frutti The Musical is a full-length stage production starring Emmy and Broadway World Award-winning actor Dedrick Weathersby in the title role, with stage direction by the accomplished Snoop Robinson, telling the story of the Architect of Rock and Roll, Richard Wayne Penniman, better known to the world as Little Richard. From his early days (1948) being discovered by the Godmother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Starting out and spanning nearly seven years of what would become a monumental career until his abrupt stop (1957). A young and ambitious writer for a prominent news journal company is given the daunting task of interviewing Mr. Richard Penniman for the Inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class story, albeit reluctant of taken an assignment for "Non Well Known artist" Scott finds himself in a whirlwind of information and true Rock and Roll History.