27 at the Pershing Square Signature Center, Manhattan. (Except for Qween Jean’s sexy costumes, the design is almost punitively cold.) I hope the authors can do so without losing what’s already beautiful about this promising work - keeping in mind that beauty, if not (according to “Black No More”) Blackness, is only skin deep.īlack No More Through Feb. In the song “Right Amount of White” - “Just a little pinch of French/Just a slight touch of Dutch/Just a little bit of Brit” - she establishes the show’s themes and relevance with humor and theatrical specificity that’s mostly absent elsewhere.Īs “Black No More” continues its development process, it will surely need to find more breathing space like that between the whimsy of the novel and its current chaotic gloom. In part that’s because she’s not allegorical she’s a practical businesswoman who understands that her vanishing trade in hair straighteners and skin lighteners is different only by degree from Crookman’s. Though Disher is the one who undergoes the most dramatic change - he eventually becomes the “Grand Exalted Giraw” of a Klanlike organization - I found myself more interested in Madame Sisseretta. The book by John Ridley, who wrote “ 12 Years a Slave,” makes only halfway repairs to the original, while introducing new problems that music and dance can’t solve.
Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question - Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? - its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy. What was he thinking Odds were that the sparks that flew. I bought Rattus Norvegicus when I was 14. In the corner of the family-owned Mexican restaurant, a mariachi band started up. The result, directed by Scott Elliott, is a gorgeous mess. The Stranglers are the most creative, powerful, musically gifted, original band ever. The title track is Bellsons best known piece, written while he was briefly with Duke Ellington this powerful big band version is as effective as his famous.
Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, among others) and weirdly jovial tone in favor of a more serious look at internalized racism and the conundrums of assimilation. It dumps most of the silly names (Ezekiel Whooper, Rufus Kretin), thin caricatures (of W.E.B. The New Group’s musical version, which opened on Tuesday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, makes the smart decision to borrow only the novel’s rudiments. Skin gk2 darkfuture.png 910 × 545 478 KB. Schuyler’s satire is basically a thought experiment in which a procedure that decolorizes Black people solves America’s race problem but creates a new one when there’s no one left for haters to hate. The following 26 files are in this category, out of 26 total. The 1931 Afrofuturist novel from which the new musical “Black No More” takes its name is hardly subtle, starting with its subtitle: “Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D.
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