IT’S HERE!!! BROADWAY BY THE BAY’S HOLIDAY ALBUM 2021 - ALL IS BRIGHT!
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Featuring 17 songs and many of our talented BBBay and Bay Area artists! So turn up the volume and enjoy the magic that only your favorite holiday music can bring!
Recorded in the fall of 2021, this album was a result of in-person and remote collaboration with our vocalists and musicians.
Producer: Alicia Jeffrey
Musical Supervisors: Sean Kana, Alicia Jeffrey, Daniel Lloyd Pias
Scheduling Coordinator & Overall Administrative Magician: Raissa Marchetti-Kozlov
All Mixing & Mastering: Cam Perridge
LARRY THE MUSICAL - MUSIC DIRECTOR, CO-COMPOSER, ARRANGER
Telling the story of one of history’s most powerful union organizers and fighter for justice
First Virtual Workshop, October 2, 2021
Future workshops Forthcoming, for more information, please visit larrythemusical.com
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Temptations Musical Set For Broadway: ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Arrives Next Spring
A musical about the great Temptations is headed to Broadway. Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, directed by Des McAnuff and produced by Ira Pittelman and Tom Hulce, will begin performances at the Imperial Theatre in spring 2019.
The musical, which follows the classic Motown vocalists – and their signature dance moves – from “the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it became the highest grossing production in that theater’s nearly 50-year history. The musical later broke the single-week box office record at Washington D.C.’s Eisenhower Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to producers.
Producers describe the show as the “story of brotherhood, family, loyalty, and betrayal,” all playing out against a backdrop of civil unrest and set to Temptations classics like “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” the title track and many more of the group’s 42 Top Ten hits (a tally that includes 14 songs that topped the charts).
Pre-Broadway, the production will play Los Angeles (opening tonight at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, through Sept. 30) and Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre (Oct. 11-Nov. 17).
The cast includes Derrick Baskin as Otis Williams, James Harkness as Paul Williams, Jawan M. Jackson as Melvin Franklin, Jeremy Pope as Eddie Kendricks, and Ephraim Sykes as David Ruffin. Featured are Esther Antoine, Saint Aubyn, Shawn Bowers, E. Clayton Cornelious, Rodney Earl Jackson Jr., Taylor Symone Jackson, Jahi Kearse, Jarvis B. Manning Jr., Joshua Morgan, Rashidra Scott, Nasia Thomas, Christian Thompson, Curtis Wiley, and Candice Marie Woods.
With a book by Dominique Morisseau, McAnuff directs with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
The creative team includes Robert Brill (scenic design), Paul Tazewell (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design), Steve Canyon Kennedy (sound design), Peter Nigrini (projection design), Charles G. LaPointe (hair and wig design), Edgar Godineaux (associate choreographer), and Steve Rankin (fight direction). Orchestrations are by Harold Wheeler with Music Direction and Arrangements by Kenny Seymour.