"The Chicago Club Rumboogie" is on hiatus for a short time. I will inform you upon it's return
by jazzcat on Aug.06, 2006, under News
Check out a play about Chicago, the Blues, the Mob, and a body the will make you smack your mama, twice!
Just reserve you tickets and mention that you heard about it on “The Jazzcat” and you can see the two act perfomance for just…..
$10
General admission is $20 but not for you! This play has been extended through the end of September 2006. This is a chance for you to enjoy some affordable entertainment courtesy of The Jazzcat!
Call the box office directly at 323-957-1152.
Identify yourself as being down with “THE JAZZ CAT” to get this exclusive $10 offer.You can have more than a pair if you wish!
Enjoy the singing, dancing, jazz and blues but watch out because all kind of things are poppin' at The Club Rumboogie!!!!!!!!
Enjoy
LeRoy Downs
The MET Theatre in association with Carl Crudup Productions present…
The Chicago Club Rumboogie
by Jerry Jones
Directed by Carl Crudup
Produced by Carl Crudup and Jim Sheeran
Lighting Designer, Technical Director and Stage Manager: Lloyd F. Reese,
Choreographed by Jelena Woodward
Production Assistant: Alanna Payton.
Set Design: Steward Hollins
Costumes: Bernadette McAllister
Costume Assistance by Alanna Payton
June 30th thru August 13th
Thursdays thru Saturdays @ 8pm & Sundays @ 7pm
Admission is $20
Reservations or Information call 323.957.1152
This new play takes place about 55 years ago and is, in the words of playwright Jerry Jones, “based on some truth.” The titular location of the action is a Black nightclub on the south side of Chicago, when racial divisions in big cities were far more sharply drawn than they are today. It was a time when singers like Dinah Washington and comedians like Moms Mabley were headliners in Chicago and at Black clubs in other cities. Black racketeers were making piles of cash by running numbers games. So much money, in fact, that they attracted the attention of the Italian mob, which tried to muscle its way in via extortion and murder.
The cast of “The Chicago Club Rumboogie” includes Fitz Houston, Ernie King, Carl Crudup, Ray Flournoy, Darren Bailey, Angela Bennett, Alvina Carroll, Sherrima Queen, Lynne Conner-Smith, Diana Charles, Ikeya Morning, Bobby Jasmine, Bud Sabatino, Andraus Miranda, Tommy Franklin, Brian Marshall, Andy Brosseau, Sid Burston, P. David Miller, Jimmy Sheeran and JoAnn Rose.
Vocalists include Lindsay Ford, Conchita Belisle, Dawn Mondie.
Dancers include Cayce Clay, Kristen L. Herbert, Leaundra Lewis and Sylvia Zabransky.
