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- Gloria Naylor's 1982 debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, is now a musical. The story is about how a series of misfortunes, wrong turns and hard choices unites a group of black women.
www.npr.org/2007/10/18/15393016/women-of-brewster-place-is-put-to-music
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Aug 15, 2012 · Set in 1975, in a rundown housing project in an unspecified city, the episodic story introduces us to eight black women who reside there.
Dec 5, 2008 · Oprah turned Gloria Naylor’s best selling novel into a TV Movie in 1993, and in 2007 Tim Acito adapted it for the stage. This souring musical chronicles the dreams and realities of ten diverse African-American women who live in a decaying housing project cut off from the city by a giant wall.
A new musical adaptation of The Women of Brewster Place was commissioned for the stage. The musical premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 12, 2007, the same theatre that also co-produced the show itself. It was directed by Molly Smith. The Women of Brewster Place toured several cities, opening to several positive ...
Oct 30, 2007 · Gloria Naylor’s novel “The Women of Brewster Place,” about courage and personal failings among a group of African-American women, was adapted as a sobering TV miniseries in 1989. But a...
The Women of Brewster Place is an American television miniseries that was broadcast on March 19 and 20, 1989 on ABC. The miniseries is based upon the critically acclaimed 1982 novel of the same name by Gloria Naylor. [1] It was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions with a teleplay by Karen Hall.
Oct 14, 2010 · Essentially it’s a grand soap opera about eight women, most high class and a few classless, in which two relationships become paramount: between high school friends in their 40s (Kim Yarbrough ...
