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   The play included several songs, either sung by the characters in the play or as ambient music heard via a radio or through a window. The late Bill Sims Jr. provided the original music, as well as performing on-stage acoustic guitar for the play. [1] [2] Lackawanna Blues is intended to be a one-man show. The actor narrating the play (an adult ...

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   In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his f...

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3. www.allmusic.com › album › lackawanna-blues-mw0000260718Lackawanna Blues - Original Soundtrack | Album | AllMusic

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   Feb 8, 2005 · Lackawanna Blues by Original Soundtrack released in 2005. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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   music of composer Bill Sims Jr. Lackawanna Blues pays homage to a woman and place that gave refuge to those who needed to be accepted for who they were and to the power of family, community, and stories. Ruben Santiago-Hudson crafted Lackawanna Blues as a means of empowering the women in his life through telling their stories and

5. libraries.usc.edu › sites › defaulto Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an actor, writer, and BLUES

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   house in Lackawanna, New York, in the 1950s and ’60s. It is essentially a one-man show, with Santiago-Hudson playing all of the characters. He is accompanied by GRAMMY-winning musician and actor Chris Thomas King, who plays blues music composed by Bill Sims Jr. Lackawanna Blues premiered off-Broadway in 2001 and was adapted into an HBO movie ...

6. www.vulture.com › 2021 › 10The Many Voices of a One-Man Show: Lackawanna Blues

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   Oct 8, 2021 · The show is a memorial, and he has been building it for 20 years. A Broadway stage is actually a little small for what he wants to do: Monuments are built big for a reason. Lackawanna Blues is at ...

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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 is Lackawanna Blues about?

   • Lackawanna Blues revisits the painful question of integration's affect on Black culture. Through the giving and stern sprit of Nanny, we have the opportunity to reexamine our matriarchs and how they are an intricate part in--not only our success--but also our survival.

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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 does the name Lackawanna mean?

   • The name Lackawanna is an Algonquin Indian word meaning 'where the streams meet'. The valley served the Indians with rich soil for crops and good hunting of moose, elk, deer, panther, bear, etc. Eventually, the area was settled by Europeans and it was not soon after that coal was found.

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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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   Will Santiago-Hudson perform Lackawanna Blues on Broadway?

   • Santiago-Hudson has had plenty of time to polish Lackawanna Blues on its way to Broadway. He first performed it in 2001 and has revived it since, including an engagement in Los Angeles in 2019.

   Theater Review: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ‘Lackawanna Blues’

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8. www.avclub.com › lackawanna-blues-remains-aLackawanna Blues remains a powerful ode to Black joy and all ...

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   Feb 25, 2020 · remains a powerful ode to Black joy and all the Nannys who help create it. George C. Wolfe’s Lackawanna Blues begins in a sterile, dreary 1980s hospital room, where an agonizing Ruben Jr. (Hill ...