[CW-Grad] Joe Powers' "Taxi Dance" get a new production
rickerby at ucr.edu
rickerby at ucr.edu
Sun Aug 22 23:42:00 PDT 2010
Joe,
Congratulations man.
Rickerby
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>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:23:28 -0700
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>Subject: [CW-Grad] Joe Powers' "Taxi Dance" get a new production
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> visit their website: http://www.commongroundtheatre.org/
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> Schedule of Upcoming Events
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> Monday, September 27, 2010 6-9pm
> Third Annual “This Is Gaffney” Fundraiser
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> Friday, December 3, 2010 - Sunday, December 19, 2010
> Black Nativity by Langston Hughes
> Black Nativity, music and lyrics by Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley, recounts the
> birth, suffering, death and redemption of Christ as told in Biblical stories from both Old
> and New Testaments. The story is glorious, humble and very spectacular told through
> musical selections from traditional to up-tempo contemporary. It was first performed on
> Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an
> African-American to do so.
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> Friday, February 4, 2011 Sunday, February 20, 2011
> A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
> Common Ground commemorates the 30th anniversary of The Negro Ensemble Company's
> Off-Broadway production of A Soldier's Play. It originally opened November 20,1981 and ran
> for 468 performances. While it is about the investigation of a murder, A Soldier's Play is
> not a murder mystery in the strictest sense. It is the story of a murder investigation in
> a segregated Louisiana Army camp, where one man exposes the devastating effects of racism
> and self-hatred. This powerful, Pulitzer prize winning drama of World War II era explores
> the history of America's legacy of racism.
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> Friday, April 22 - Sunday, May 8, 2011
> Taxi Dance by Joe Powers World Premiere
> Taxi Dance is an offbeat love story painted on the backdrop of what was once a beautiful
> dime-a-dance hall; now a forlorn palace where men can rent a dancer for thirty-five cents
> a minute – plus tips. Gone with its beauty is its heart. It's a place where broken
> dreams meet, converse, play themselves out and then return to that receptacle of yearning
> – that place in the back of the mind or heart where they can remain until the next time
> it is safe to air them out. On this particular night Betty's life flashes before her and
> she finds herself perplexed and frightened. She looks to her younger counterpart for
> redemption only to find frustration. As the night unfolds Betty looks for a way back to
> her dreams and her once youthful hope and passion. Ultimately she learns that even though
> dreams do not always come true . . . there is always hope and of course – tomorrow.
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> Click here for a press release on the musical and Artistic Director, Hassan El-Amin
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> Click here for Group Sales opportunities for San Diego area churches
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> http://web.mac.com/codypowers/joepowers
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> The Blue Trunk Theatre Company
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> Cody Powers Films: http://web.me.com/codypowers/codypowersfilms/home.html
> Robin Russin
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> Director, MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
> University of California, Riverside
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