James Ijames Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,” which opened to strong reviews on Broadway April 12 after a Sro engagement at the Public Theater, is the latest reinvention of a Shakespeare play. A strong contender for multiple Tony nominations is set at a Southern cookout where a queer black college student named Juicy (Marcel Spears) is dealing with a lot of issues including identity, the ghost of his dead father and the fact that his mother recently married his uncle.
“I have this need to disrupt the canon as much as I can, and disrupt people’s deification and lionization of classical texts…as if they’re frozen in amber and all we can do is put a treatment on top of that like wallpaper, by setting it in the ‘20s,” Ijames told Playbill. “There’s this real desire in me to take the parts of the classics and bring them closer...
“I have this need to disrupt the canon as much as I can, and disrupt people’s deification and lionization of classical texts…as if they’re frozen in amber and all we can do is put a treatment on top of that like wallpaper, by setting it in the ‘20s,” Ijames told Playbill. “There’s this real desire in me to take the parts of the classics and bring them closer...
- 4/17/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Broadway Choral directorarranger Chapman Roberts has created a blockbuster evening of Broadway showstoppers featuring and award winning all male cast that include Norm Lewis, Andre DeShields, Ben Vereen, Keith David, Larry Marshall, Keith Robinson, Ted Louis Levy, Omar Edwards, Frank Owens, and Longineu Parsons being held in the Queensborough Performing Arts Center located at Queensborough Community College 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, New York.
- 2/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Aussenard/WireImage It’s a girl for All My Children star Aiden Turner and wife Megan! TV Guide reports that the couple — married since 2006 — welcomed daughter Ciella Larryn Turner at 12:20 a.m. on Friday, August 21st. Weighing in at 9 lbs., 13 oz., she is the first child for both.
Her name has special significance for the proud new mom, Aiden reveals.
“Her middle name comes from Megan’s father, Larry Marshall, who died just two weeks ago after a year fighting cancer. We are very happy she arrived so healthy and so beautiful. We wish her Grandpa Larry was here to hold her.”
The pregnancy was announced in March.
Source: Soap Opera Digest
Posted in Births, Dads, Main, Names...
Aussenard/WireImage It’s a girl for All My Children star Aiden Turner and wife Megan! TV Guide reports that the couple — married since 2006 — welcomed daughter Ciella Larryn Turner at 12:20 a.m. on Friday, August 21st. Weighing in at 9 lbs., 13 oz., she is the first child for both.
Her name has special significance for the proud new mom, Aiden reveals.
“Her middle name comes from Megan’s father, Larry Marshall, who died just two weeks ago after a year fighting cancer. We are very happy she arrived so healthy and so beautiful. We wish her Grandpa Larry was here to hold her.”
The pregnancy was announced in March.
Source: Soap Opera Digest
Posted in Births, Dads, Main, Names...
- 9/1/2009
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
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