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Playing HotSet within a brassy dance hall, PLAYING HOT deconstructs the incredible story of the birth of jazz in New Orleans. Retracing the rise and fall of Buddy Bolden, the little-known trumpeter who pioneered the radical sound that would become America’s Art Form, the show is neither biography nor period piece, neither play nor musical, but an explosive theatrical event in the style of jazz. A live brass band joins a dynamic ensemble to riff on everything from Mardi Gras and Public Enemy, to questions of appropriation and the cult of celebrity.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY (All 2016)
- Jerome Foundation Travel Grant - Drama League Residency - Brooklyn Arts Council Grant - Workshop, The Habitat - Workshop Production, Pipeline Theatre Company Created by Jaki Bradley and Kevin Armento
With Josh Bonzie, Fernando Contreras, Danté Jeanfelix, Roi King, Emma Meltzer, Cristina Pitter and Monique St. Cyr Featuring James Williams and the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys Production Design: Chris Bowser Lighting Design: Ben Fichthorn Costume Design: Sarafina Bush Choreography: Jason Warley Music Direction: Trevor Bachman Production Stage Manager: Kristy Bodall Produced by Pipeline Theater Company The Gym at Judson, 2016 |
