![]() ![]() Nzinga Williams Dylan Pager Lauren Daghini-DeHanes Susan Slotoroff Maggie Oberrender Nicole PincusĪnd lastly, thank you to Andre De Shields and George Faison, you are living legends and deserve all your flowers. Thank you to the Nets for inviting The Broadway Women's Alliance, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Entertainment Community Fund, and the cast of Fat Ham to join in the celebration. Thank you to our friends at FAT HAM, SOME LIKE IT HOT, and ALADDIN for donating tickets for in-game giveaway. Thank you to our friends at the Museum Diane Nicoletti Michele Groner Julie Boardman who saw this as an amazing opportunity outside of the 20 blocks in Midtown to reach a new audience. Thank you to my clients Black Theatre Coalition Warren Adams for letting me run wild with this crazy idea, for truly putting your money where your mouth is in changing the face of the industry, and for honoring those that came before. I loved this night not only for what it stood for, but for the opportunities to bring together so many aspects of Broadway. And the final cherry on top was hosting the Tony-Award winning Choreographer of The Wiz, George Faison, truly honoring the history of Black Broadway. The next layer was our friends at The Museum of Broadway who re-created a beautiful tribute to Black Broadway in the Barclays concourse. Criscia’s beautiful integration and tribute to Broadway throughout the game was a thrill (S/O to Criscia, Justin Prescott, and Olutayo for choreography). And that snowballed into André reprising his role as the Wiz on the Jumbotron of Barclays Arena at 77 years old. When Criscia Long described her vision for the half-time show as a tribute to The Wiz, I knew our next call was to Tony Award® Winner and the original Wiz, André De Shields. Kristin Braye Isaiah Parkes Troy Press thank you for literally and figuratively holding my hand as we navigated this project. It must be said, I **bow down** to my friends at BSE Global for the amount of work each individual home game takes. ![]() So on 2/28, at their final Black History Month home game, Broadway took over Barclays with a first-of-its-kind Ode to Black Broadway Night with the Brooklyn Nets. I'd never pass up the opportunity to help showcase the best of Broadway in front of 18,000 NBA fans. I could not do this without you.īroadway + Sports (the collab of my dreams!) When the Nets reached out for an assist, I was delighted. Warren, Emyli Gudmundson, Kiyomi Emi, Candice Walters, Shawn Robertson (Garrett Collins emeritus). My brilliant and resilient co-conspirators: Queen Deborah R. Giant hug to the best in the West (Coast). It's been a long, long road to get here, but to quote Anais, spring will come again. And the cherry on top? A beautiful night last week with HADESTOWN and a private concert for Card Members with Anais Mitchell and the cast. Omicron really punched the industry while we were barely on our feet.įast forward to today and we’re about to complete our second season together. An outbreak in the cast made it impossible to go on, and the rest of the run was canceled. It felt awful. While I was lucky enough to catch a performance, it turned out to be the final one. I flew out to LA to share in the communal joy of being back together in the Ahmanson Theatre. In the 19 painful months that followed, scheduling difficulties and COVID, we finally kicked back off in-person theater in November 2021 with The Old Vic's beautiful production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL (one of my favorites). In fact, my last pre-pandemic work trip was February 2020 for an American Express Card Member exclusive post-show concert with Sting after a performance of THE LAST SHIP. We launched our partnership 6 months before the pandemic began. Can I tell you how much I adore Center Theatre Group?
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