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1. btwberkshires.com › arts › theaterBlues music recalls summer plays and family stories

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   Tags: Williamstown Theatre Festival By the Way Berkshires is a digital magazine exploring creative life and community — art and performance, food and the outdoors — and I’m writing it for you, with local voices, because I’ve gotten to know this rich part of the world as a writer and journalist, and I want to share it with you.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lackawanna_BluesLackawanna Blues - Wikipedia

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   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.

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   LACKAWANNA BLUES is actor, playwright, and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ode to his 1950s childhood home: Lackawanna, New York. Santiago-Hudson’s autobiographical play focuses on the woman who raised him, Rachel “Nanny” Crosby, and the eccentric community of lost souls and abandoned lovers she nurtured. Inspired by African griot

5. www.manhattantheatreclub.com › lackawanna-bluesRuben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues - Manhattan Theatre Club

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   Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson returns to MTC for the Broadway debut of his brilliant solo play celebrating the strong, big-hearted woman who raised him: Miss Rachel. In a 1950s boarding house outside Buffalo, Nanny, as she was affectionately called, opened her doors to anyone and everyone in need of kindness, hope, compassion and care.

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6. www.nytimes.com › lackawanna-blues-broadwayTour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’

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   Oct 27, 2021 · These were fertile times. The 2020 census counted 19,949 people in Lackawanna. In the late ’50s and ’60s, when “Lackawanna Blues” is set, the town was thriving, courtesy of the Bethlehem ...

7. www.broadwayworld.com › article › VIDEO-Watch-aVIDEO: Watch a Sneak Peek of LACKAWANNA BLUES on Broadway!

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   Sep 29, 2021 · Lackawanna Blues is written, performed, and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, with original music by Bill Sims Jr. performed on stage by Grammy Award-nominated blues guitarist ...

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   Where did 'Lackawanna Blues' come from?

   • In the late ’50s and ’60s, when “Lackawanna Blues” is set, the town was thriving, courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel mill. In 1983, the steel mill closed its doors. Today, wind turbines spin where steel was once manufactured. The play, Santiago-Hudson said during an interview in August, allows him to revisit and remember where he came from.

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   Who is in the cast of Lackawanna Blues?

   • Lackawanna Blues features an all-star cast including Louis Gossett, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Lou Myer, and Ernie Hudson. The movie is set in the 60's and seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up in a rooming house run by the lady that everyone calls Nanny. S. Epatha Merkerson did an outstanding job playing the lead role.

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   Is Lackawanna Blues a one-man show?

   • Lackawanna Blues is intended to be a one-man show. The actor narrating the play (an adult Ruben) was intended to portray more than 20 other characters, as well as the starring role of the young Ruben. The play was very well received. The New York Times called it a "tour de force."

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   What year did the play 'Lackawanna' come out?

   • 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. The play debuted off Broadway April 14, 2001, at The Public Theater in New York City. It was directed by Loretta Greco, produced by George C. Wolfe, and the executive producer was Fran Reiter.

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   Who narrates Lackawanna Blues?

   • The late Bill Sims Jr. provided the original music, as well as performing on-stage acoustic guitar for the play. Lackawanna Blues is intended to be a one-man show. The actor narrating the play (an adult Ruben) was intended to portray more than 20 other characters, as well as the starring role of the young Ruben.

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   What was life like in Lackawanna in 1956?

   • 1956 Lackawanna, New York, like all Great Lakes cities, was thriving! Jobs everywhere, money everywhere. Steel plants, grain mills, railroads, the docks. Everybody had a new car and a conk. Restaurants, bars, stores, everybody made money. The smell of fried fish, chicken and pork chops floating in the air every weekend.

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9. calendar.usc.edu › event › lackawanna_bluesLackawanna Blues - Event Calendar

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   Apr 17, 2019 · Lackawanna Blues Written, Performed, and Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson Depart USC at 7 p.m.; return at 10:30 p.m. ADMISSION: Open to USC students only. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Wednesday, March 20, at 9 a.m. See description for details.* USC Students: RSVP To attend a performance on your own, visit centertheatregroup.org to purchase tickets. Lackawanna Blues at the Mark Taper ...