Norm Lewis, Chapman Roberts and David H. Greer, in association with Richard Allen Center for Culture and Arts, Queensborough Performing Arts Center and the California African American Museum, will present The Black Stars of The Great White Way Broadway Reunion: Live The Dream, an all-male tribute honoring jazz musicians Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, and Paul Robeson, on June 23, 2014 at 8 P.M. in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City.
The black tie gala concert, celebrating 100 years of the contributions, influence, and legacy of African American Men at Carnegie Hall, on Broadway, on television, on the international touring circuit, as well as in the recording and film industries, will feature Broadway song and dance numbers by original cast members of Five Guys Named Moe, Smokey Joe’s Café, HAIR, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dreamgirls, The Scottsboro Boys, Eubie, Motown, Bringing in the Noise, Bringing in the Funk!, After Midnight, and more.
Motown, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, Five Guys Named Moe, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Porgy and Bess.
The veritable who’s who of performers, dancers, musicians and composers in the lineup include:
Vocalists
Chapman Roberts, Norm Lewis, André De Shields, Larry Marshall, Kevin Ramsey, Glenn Turner, Doug Eskew, Milton Craig Neeley, Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter, Ben Harney, Cleavant Derricks, Adrian Bailey, Marcus Naylor, Leotis Clyburn, Branden Cook, Brandon Bain, Avon Long, David Helper, Raun Ruffin, Jason Cook, Lee Summers, Stanley Hopkins, Claude Jay, Forest Ray, Keith David, Rob “Ike” Barnes, Bobby Harden, Obba Babatunde, Kirk Taylor, Wilkie Ferguson, Lacy Darryl Phillips, Clent Bowers, Avon Marshall, Scott J. Foster, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kenneth Kamal Scott, Raymond Patterson, D’Ambrose Boyd, Ken Ard, Thom Scott, C.E. Smith, Johnathan Lee Iverson, Torrence Bristow, Jayson Kolbicz, and Clifton Davis.
Dancers:
Derek Grant, Bakaari Wilder, Jason Samuel Smith, Joseph Web, Dule Hill, Vincent Bingham, Omar Edwards, and Alde Lewis.
Musicians:
Frank Owens, David Alan Bunn, William Foster McDaniel, Kenny Seymour, Julius Williams, and Abdul Hamid Royal (Piano)
Conductors Sipho Kunene and Buddy Williams, Clyde Bullard (Drums), Bass Keith Robinson (Bass) and Van Gibbs (Guitar).
Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, Stephen Byrd, Harold Wheeler, Noble Sissle, Larry Hamlin, Berry Gordy, Luther Henderson, Donald McKayle, and Robert Guillaume will be honored.
The program will feature the New York premieres of David Alan Bunn’s Live The Dream Overture – A Soulful Fanfare and Chapman Roberts/William Foster McDaniel Legacy, in additions to selections by Blake, Jordan, Waller / Henderson, Ellington, and other Broadway favorites.
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