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BLUES IN THE NIGHT

Monday, October 25th, 2021

A man gives three very different women plenty of reasons to sing Blues In The Night in ICT/Ebony Rep’s thrilling revival of Sheldon Epps’ Tony-nominated Broadway musical revue.
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Tags: Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith., Duke Ellington, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Gordon Jenkins, Harold Arlen, International City Theatre, Johnny Mercer, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sheldon Epps, Vernon Duke
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Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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Tags: Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith., Duke Ellington, Gordon Jenkins, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sheldon Epps, Vernon Duke, Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
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WHEN JAZZ HAD THE BLUES

Sunday, November 27th, 2016

He was the love of Lena Horne’s life. He ghostwrote and/or arranged many of Duke Ellington’s Greatest Hits. He lived an openly gay life three full decades before Stonewall. He was Billy Strayhorn, and if the name doesn’t ring a bell, playwright Carole Eglash-Kosoff aims to rectify that with her elucidating, engrossing, enormously entertaining World Premiere musical drama When Jazz Had The Blues.
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Tags: Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre
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