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Get your front-row seat to music history in the making. “The Godmother of Rock n’ Roll” and 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Early Influence Inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe — who influenced performers from Elvis to Hendrix — plucks prim-and-proper Marie Knight from a rival gospel show. The two challenge one another on music, life, and The Almighty. This story of letting loose, finding your voice, and freeing your soul is a soaring music-theatre experience chock full of roof-raising performances.
(Pianist) is a two-time Emmy Award-Winning Music Director/Composer/Pianist from Saturday Night Live (2000-11), writing music for hit sketches including Dick In a Box featuring Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake, What Up With That, The Lawrence Welk Show, and I'm Not Gonna Sing Tonight. Bandleader and Music Director for The more
(Sister Rosetta Tharpe) was last seen on the CPH stage as Bessie/music director in The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith. Since then, TDM has enjoyed extended runs in MA, CA, D.C. and a Blues Cruise. She and TDM have multi nominations including the Drama Desk, more
(Playwright) plays include Grounded (Cleveland Play House, Dobama, Public Theater), Into the Breeches! (Cleveland Play House, Trinity Repertory, Asolo Repertory), Marie and Rosetta (Cleveland Play House, Atlantic Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Grizzly Mama (Dobama Theatre), Salvage (none too fragile), The Prince of Providence, Elephant’s Graveyard, Tender Age, more
(U/S Sister Rosetta Tharpe/Marie Knight) is a native Clevelander, and for the past 20 years has had a blossoming bond with the Cleveland theatre scene. Recent works include Dobama Theatre: Airness; CPH: Blackademics, Clue: A New Comedy (Cook), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne), Marie and Rosetta more
(Guitarist) is an award-winning songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader living in Ossining, New York. She performs regularly and has opened for internationally renowned jazz and pop musicians such as Grammy Award-winners Alicia Keys, Roberta Flack, Ronnie Spector, and Richie Havens. KJ considers herself fortunate to have received Grand Prize more
(Marie Knight) received her Masters of Fine Arts from UCSD in San Diego. Regional credits at La Jolla Playhouse: In the Red and Brown Water (Oya), A Lie of the Mind (Beth), Little Children Dream of God (Madison). She performed with The Ubuntu Theatre Project: Dance of the Holy more
(Lighting Designer) has designed lighting, and occasionally scenery for over 650 productions at theater, opera and dance companies across the country and around the world. Recent work includes Paula Vogel’s new play Indecent (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), The Last Ship, Rocky (Tony nomination), and The Gershwins’ Porgy and more
(Costume Designer) At Cleveland Play House: Five Guys Named Moe. Dede’s Off-Broadway credits include: School Girls (MCC); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Signature); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Tell Hector I Miss Him, Marie & Rosetta (Atlantic); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3); Twelfth Night, more
(Associate Director) World Premiere: Mud Row by Dominique Morisseau, Travisville by William Jackson Harper, Bayard Rustin: Inside Ashland by Steve H. Broadnax III, The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall, Everybody Black by Dave Harris. Theatre Includes: Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, People’s Light, Hattiloo Theatre, Ensemble more
(Music Director/Music Supervisor) Seth has played and conducted many Broadway shows, including Hairspray; Fosse; Hair; Beautiful; On Your Feet; Paramour; Promises, Promises; Shrek; Smokey Joe’s Café; 9 To 5; Elf; and Catch Me If You Can. Seth has played on hundreds of CD’s, including two Grammy-nominated records by the more
(Scenic Designer) Broadway: The Gin Game; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; The People in the Picture; Caroline, or Change (also Royal National Theatre, London); Elaine Stritch at Liberty (also national tour; Old Vic, London); Topdog/Underdog (Royal Court); Bells are Ringing; Parade (directed by Hal Prince, Tony and Drama Desk more
(Assistant Stage Manager) serves as an Assistant Professor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University, where he teaches courses in Stage Management, Production Management, Theatre Management, and an intro course to computing software for the theatre practitioner. Tom has been a part of the more
(Wig Designer) Broadway credits include: In Transit, Eclipsed, Side Show, After Midnight, Fela!, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Lombardi, The Miracle Worker, A View from the Bridge, South Pacific. Off-Broadway: Party People, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Marie and Rosetta, Troilus and more
(Sound Designer) was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie, and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits include: On Your Feet, Doctor Zhivago, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Tony Award), Hands more
(Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House) (she/her) became Artistic Director of Cleveland Play House in 2013, and has directed numerous CPH mainstage productions, including The Crucible; Sweat; The Diary of Anne Frank; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Into the Breeches!; Every Brilliant Thing; and the world more
(Stage Manager) is very pleased to be working at Cleveland Play House for the first time. A stage manager at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park since 1994, she became the PSM (head of the department) in 2005. She has worked on more than 100 productions, including a number of more
(Director) Recent directing credits include the New York premiere of Simon Stephens’ On the Shore of the Wide World, world premieres of George Brant’s Marie and Rosetta, Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold On To Me Darling and David Mamet’s The Penitent all at the Atlantic Theater Company in NYC. Broadway credits more
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