Eight times a week, Vernel Bagneris (pronounced Ver-NEL BAHN-er-reese) becomes Jelly Roll Morton for an
off-Broadway audience of two hundred in Jelly Roll!: The Music and the Man.
The popular
off-Broadway fall hit about baseball, naked men in the locker room, and coming out scores a transfer to Broadway.
Talk a bit more, however, and you'll learn just how disruptive having a kid in an
off-Broadway show can be for a family.
Described as a road musical, the
off-Broadway hit opens at the Arcola Theatre in London on March 21 before embarking on a UK tour.
(His most memorable fan experience so far involved a teenage girl sitting near him on opening night
off-Broadway, perfectly executing a complex finger-tutting sequence.)
Over the course of its history, many more 'promising' personalities received plaques, bronze statues or glass trophies to commemorate their Broadway and
off-Broadway debuts, among them Carol Channing, Richard Burton, Audrey Hepburn, Harry Belafonte, Julie Andrews, James Earl Jones, Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli, Marisa Tomei, Colm Wilkinson, Audra McDonald, Vanessa Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Viola Davis, Anna Kendrick, Lupita Nyong'o, Cynthia Erivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Whoopi Goldberg, Meryl Streep, Victor Garber, Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino.
JAMES Franco is to direct his ex-lover in
off-Broadway play The Long Shrift.
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From The Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger.
Washington, May 4 (ANI): Legendary singer Bob Dylan is set to create some music for an upcoming
off-Broadway production.
"The Vagina Monologues" - V-Day Eugene presents a reading of Eve Ensler's
off-Broadway play, 7:30 p.m., McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette St.
Theatrical producer, agent and impresario Gordon Crowe, whose projects ranged from the original
Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of "Oh!
A JESUIT
OFF-BROADWAY: CENTER STAGE WITH JESUS, JUDAS, AND LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS By James Martin Loyola Press, 272 pages, $22.95
Jesuit priest James Martin presents A Jesuit
Off-Broadway: Center Stage With Jesus, Judas, and Life's Big Questions, a memoir recounting the six months during which he served as a theological consultant for the New York theater production of "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot", directed by Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring Sam Rockwell and Eric Bogosian.