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GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Director and Playwright George C. Wolfe Quote on the Source of Style (LISTEN)

GBN Daily Drop Podcast: Director and Playwright George C. Wolfe Quote on the Source of Style (LISTEN)

By goodblacknews on February 15, 2022

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)

Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Tuesday, February 15 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 and helps celebrate New York Fashion Week with a fun quote from Tony Award-winning director, filmmaker and playwright George C. Wolfe:

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Tuesday, February 15th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.

As New York’s Fashion Week for 2022 continues, today we offer a quote from George C. Wolfe, the Tony Award-winning director of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Bring In ‘Da Noise/Bring in ‘Da Funk. He’s also the former artistic director of New York’s Public Theater and he also wrote 1986’s acclaimed off-Broadway play The Colored Museum. Here’s the quote:

“God created Black people, and Black people created style.”

To learn more about American Theater Hall of Fame inductee George C. Wolfe, check out the 2018 Oprah Winfrey/Rose Byrne film adaptation of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on HBO or Hulu, which Wolfe wrote and directed based on the book of the same name, of head to Netflix for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom which was his 2020 film starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.

Or you can watch his TIFF Originals Master Class on YouTube, and read more about Wolfe on the Internet Broadway Database, thehistorymakers.org and theundefeated.com. Links to these sources are provided in today’s show notes as well as in the episode’s full transcript on goodblacknews.org.

This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing, and available at workman.com, Amazon, Bookshop and other online retailers. Beats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot.

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Tony Winner Audra McDonald Announces Broadway Return Alongside George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover for 2016 Musical "Shuffle Along"

By goodblacknews on March 13, 2015

Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in 2016, in collaboration with George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover.
Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in 2016, in collaboration with George C. Wolfe and Savion Glover. (© David Gordon)

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway in spring 2016 in a new collaboration with Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe and Tony-winning choreographer Savion Glover. The collaboration is called Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Follows. The production begins previews March 14, 2016, at the Music Box Theatre, with opening night set for April 21.
McDonald will play Lottie Gee, the 1920s performer who appeared in the cast of Shuffle Along. This 1921 musical by Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles, Eubie Blake, and Noble Sissle altered the face of Broadway in giving several black performers their first Broadway credits. The show helped launch the careers of Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, and Paul Robeson, among many others.
Ninety-five years later, this backstage musical will explore the creation of this now-forgotten show. Wolfe directs and pens the book, while Glover choreographs. It marks their first collaboration since their 1996 hit Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. The production will have music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Daryl Waters, scenic design by Santo Loquasto, costume design by Ann Roth, and lighting design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer. Scott Rudin serves as producer.
Additional information about the production will be revealed in the coming months.
article by David Gordon via theatermania.com