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the world according to Micki Grant (A New Musical)
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First preview: May 30th- June 5th; Opens June 6th- June 29th, 2024: Tues @ 7PM; Wed. @ 2PM; Thurs. @ 7PM; Fri. @ 7PM; Sat. @ 2PM & 7PM; Sun. @ 3 PM
We enter into the personal world of the iconic Micki Grant through her unpublished poems, lyrics, written musings on love, politics, family, and historical figures loved and lost; featuring music rarely heard, accented with songs from her award-winning work: Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, So Nice To Be Civilized, & Working, and more!
With Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, Micki Grant became the first Black woman to write the book, music, and lyrics of a Broadway musical.
Compiled and Directed by Nora Cole
Telling Tales Out of School
June, 1954, a memorial service for Alain Locke, architect of the Harlem Renaissance, is held at Benta’s Funeral Home in Harlem. Among the attendees are Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jesse Fauset and Nancy Cunard. Now in their sixties and not having seen one another in over twenty years, they gather at the Hotel Theresa after the funeral. An afternoon of boundless praise of Locke over tea unravels into disturbing revelations about the great man and the four women who have come to honor him.