Hot Feet

Hot Feet is about a beautiful young dancer whose dream is to dance on Broadway. When she puts on a pair of magical red shoes, they begin to take control of her fate.

Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam is a musical with a book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jelly Roll Morton and Luther Henderson. Based on the life and career of Morton, generally regarded as one of the primary driving forces behind the introduction of jazz to the American public in the early 20th century, it also serves as a social commentary on the African-American experience during the era.

Seven Guitars

The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. Seven Guitars represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in King Hedley II, set in the 1980s.

ELLA

Freda Payne plays the legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald at Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey in the musical Ella.

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The Life

[ HAIR STYLIST for Lillias White and other cast members]

The Life depicts the pulsating life on the Times Square streets in the 1980s, where everything had a price, especially sex-the garish topless bars, the transvestite joints, the hookers who worked the side walks at the bidding of their pimps

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