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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)...
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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Sep 16, 2021 · The Lackawanna Blues writer and director, 64, opens up to PEOPLE about his close friendship with the late star and recalls one of the last times he met up with Williams prior to his death...
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.
- 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...
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Mar 8, 2019 · Creator Ruben-Santiago Hudson dedicates his autobiographical play Lackawanna Blues to the memory of Bill Sims Jr. L-R: Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Bill Sims Jr. Photo by Benedict Evans. For over 20 years and dozens of projects, Bill Sims Jr. and I have stood shoulder to shoulder.
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Feb 6, 2005 · COVER STORY; Lost and Found In Lackawanna. Making his film debut with "Lackawanna Blues," a homage to old-fashioned black communities and a soul-saving woman at the heart of one of them,...
