[NEohioPAL] If you love the 'BLUES'...you don't want to miss this original musical...SONGS SUNG BLUES!!

[Rainbow Repertory Company]

 SONGS SUNG BLUES 
Original Musical  Playwright/Composer: Rose Darling
 
Canton Cabaret Dinner Theatre - McKinley Grand Hotel Ballroom
Sundays, Oct. 19, 26 - 2:30 pm    Friday, Oct. 24 - 7:00 p.m.
 
 $42.50 Dinner/Show      $25.00 Show Only   10% off Table of eight
 
Tickets: 330.456.7397   or email  ccdtreservations at yahoo.com 
 
This play may be booked for performances year-round.
Contact: Lois DiGiacomo  330.456.7397
 
 The exciting and expressive music of the Harlem Renaissance of the
early twentieth century, started a movement that lives on even today.
"The Blues" - the name conjures up a feeling of deep inner longing and
hope: hope for a better day for those descendents of slavery and
servitude. Among the African-American entertainment community, the women
endured special hardships as they were dealt the blows of racial and
sexual discrimination, dire poverty, personal addictions, and abuse from
parents, mentors, husbands and society. Yet some of those very women
forged a new path, daring to break free from their impoverished prisons
to become pioneers of a new style of American music that has affected
the music throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. As
we read of today's celebrities with their personal struggles with
addictions and troubled relationships, the message of "Songs Sung Blues"
by Canton resident Rose Minner Darling, is found to be relevant for
modern people.
This musical premiers October 19 with the Canton Cabaret, and stars five
northeast Ohio actors who portray: Lena Horne (Me'Na of Canton), whose
music continues to delight audiences some 80 years later, Ma Rainey(Shar
Hudson of Canton), the Mother of the Blues; the raw and raucous Bessie
Smith (Erin Ivery, Cleveland) known as the Empress of the Blues; the
feisty, golden-toned Ethel "Stringbean" Waters (Kathy Mitchell of
Canton); and the sultry Josephine Baker (Natasha Cooper of Cleveland),
super-star of the Paris clubs and decorated hero by the French
government..
 Darling weaves their history-based fictional stories together in
tapestry of humor, drama and music with the intent to inspire, educate
and entertain. This work began in 2006 as Rose studied  a Western
Illinois University online African-American literature course taught by
Dr. Soufara Boukari who plans to attend the premiere.  
            Canton Cabaret is a not-for-profit professional dinner
theatre troupe under the umbrella of the Rainbow Repertory Co. Inc., a
not-for-profit educational theatrical company based in Canton, Ohio.
Proceeds from Canton Cabaret productions help support the educational
outreach programs of Rainbow Repertory/Canton Cabaret. "Songs Sung
Blues" provides an opportunity to educate, entertain and inspire Ohio
audiences with the stories and songs of five African-American
entertainers who paved the way for women of today. 
 
 
Lois DiGiacomo
 <http://www.cantoncabaret.com> www.cantoncabaret.com 
"SONGS SUNG BLUES"
Music and Stories of the Harlem Renaissance Singers
Lena Horne - Ethel Waters - Ma Rainey 
Josephine Baker and Bessie Smith
October 19 & 26  2:30 p.m.
October 24  7 p.m.
MCKINLEY GRAND HOTEL BALLROOM
TICKETS:  330.456.7397
 
 
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