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May 24, 2003 · Santiago-Hudson, best-known for his Broadway role as Canewell in August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” pays tribute to her in his solo show “Lackawanna Blues,” named after his hometown of...
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April 26, 2011. Phoebe Snow, whose signature hit, “Poetry Man,” established her as a leading light of the singer-songwriter movement and whose swooping vocal acrobatics transcended musical genres,...
Feb 25, 2020 · Macy Gray, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Rosie Perez Photo: Bob Greene. George C. Wolfe’s Lackawanna Blues begins in a sterile, dreary 1980s hospital room, where an agonizing Ruben Jr. (Hill Harper)...
- Nanny Cares For Jr. from The Beginning
- 32 Wasson Ave Becomes A Home to Everyone
- Nanny and Jr. Share An Unbreakable Bond
When Jr. got the call in the middle of the night that his nanny, Rachel Crosby — the woman who gave him his will to live, his life, and everything in it — was in the ending stages of her life, he knew he’d be by her side the same way she had been for him for all his years. Nanny would go as far as giving you the home she had along with all its belo...
Nanny didn’t stop at just loving Jr. The men and women who she allowed to live in her home for $25 a month room and board, flocked to be near Nanny’s warm spirit. Enjoying weekends dressed to the nines, dancing to Billie Holiday, Nanny and her friends that became family would stop at nothing for a time on the town listening to blues music. People l...
One night when Jr. and Nanny were talking about what her story was, Nanny opened up to him about why she started taking care of people while only in the third grade saying, “There’s always been a part of me that wanted to try to fix things, people, try to make them feel whole again.” Nanny and Jr. share a bond that cannot be shaken, as she thanks G...
- Molly Byrne
Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s.
In the early morning of Monday, August 27, 1990, American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin, at age 35. [1] He was one of the most influential blues guitarists of the 1980s, described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "the second coming of the blues".
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That woman is Nanny, the beating heart of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s tender and vibrant autobiographical one-man show, “Lackawanna Blues,” which opened on Thursday night in a Manhattan Theater Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. It proves to be a winsome performer’s master class in storytelling, despite a few flat notes.
