By Langston Hughes, Walter Marks and Kent Gash
Music by Walter Marks, Lyrics by Langston Hughes
Musical Direction by Barry Levitt, Choreography by Byron Easley
Directed by Kent Gash
Starring
Performances begin April 9; Opening April 15
At Urban Stages
Langston in Harlem is an exciting new musical about one of
In addition to Josh Tower (The Lion King, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin), as Langston Hughes, the cast includes: Jordan Barbour (Stormy Weather) Francesca Harper (Fosse, The Producers, The Frogs, and The Color Purple), Boise Holmes (“CSI: Miami,” Film: Kiss The Girls Black Knight, The Lion King -Germany, Hong Kong), Dell Howlett (Bombay Dreams, Film: Across The Universe), Krisha Marcano (The Color Purple), Kenita Miller (Xanadu, The Color Purple), Gayle Turner (The Wiz), Glenn Turner, C. Kelly Wright (Film: Every Black Man, Regional: A Little Princess).. Creative team includes: Emily Beck (Scenic Designer), William H. Grant, III (Lighting Designer), Austin Sanderson (Costume Designer) and Jason Fitzgerald (Sound Designer).
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Book by Langston Hughes, Walter Marks and Kent Gash,
With music by Walter Marks, lyrics by Langston Hughes and directed by Kent Gash
Begins performances Friday, April 9; opening Thursday, April 15 through May 2, 2010
Performance Schedule: Tuesday – Friday at 8PM; Saturday at 2PM & 8PM– Sunday at 5PM
(Wednesday, April 14 performance at 7PM; No Saturday Matinee April 10)
Tickets are $40 ($25 during previews through Tuesday, April 13, 2010)
Tickets available at www.SmartTix.com or call 212.868.4444
Student Rush with valid ID 10 minutes before curtain (based on availability)
Running time: 2 hours with an intermission
For more information about Urban Stages please visit www.urbanstages.org
LANGSTON HUGHES (Lyrics), Author of original play Little Ham, wrote 16 books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of editorial and documentary fiction, 20 plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. Hughes's works include Not Without Laughter, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander. His collections of poetry include The Weary Blues, The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, The Dream Keeper, Shakespeare in Harlem, Fields of Wonder, One Way Ticket, The First Book of Jazz, The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Roy DeCarava, Tambourines to Glory, Selected Poems and The Best of Simple. Posthumous publications: Five Plays by Langston Hughes, The Panther and the Lash, Poems of Our Times, and Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest.
WALTER MARKS (Music) is probably best known for his song “I’ve Gotta be Me,” recorded by Sammy Davis, Tony Bennett, and many others. He has also written songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, The Temptations, Della Reese, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, and other artists. He wrote the songs for the Broadway musicals Bajour and Golden Rainbow, the book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway musical Body Shop, the screenplay and songs for the motion picture The Wild Party (Merchant-Ivory Films - directed by James Ivory). He also wrote the off-Broadway comedy-mystery The
KENT GASH (Director) Alliance Theatre: King Hedley II, Pacific Overtures (Winner Best Musical '03-'04, Elliot Norton Award, Best Musical and Best Director, I.R.N.E. Awards), Shakespeare's R&J, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. OFF-BROADWAY: Call The Children Home (Audelco Award Nominee, Best Musical & Best Director) for Primary Stages; Miss Ever's Boys (Audelco Award Nominee, Best Play & Best Director) and Home for Melting Pot Theatre Company; and Beggar's Holiday and Josephine's Song (Co-Librettist) for the York. REGIONAL: As Associate Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Mr. Gash directed and choreographed The Negro of Peter the Great, A Night in