As Broadway continues to be shut down amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, author Caseen Gaines is giving readers a chance to experience opening night again in his new book.
In Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (Sourcebooks), out May 25, Gaines transports readers to New York in the roaring twenties to tell the story of the artists behind the revolutionary production Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team. Further, Gaines examines how lyricist Noble Sissle, composer Eubie Blake and comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles defied the odds and overcame racism, poverty and violence ...
In Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (Sourcebooks), out May 25, Gaines transports readers to New York in the roaring twenties to tell the story of the artists behind the revolutionary production Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team. Further, Gaines examines how lyricist Noble Sissle, composer Eubie Blake and comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles defied the odds and overcame racism, poverty and violence ...
- 2/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Broadway continues to be shut down amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, author Caseen Gaines is giving readers a chance to experience opening night again in his new book.
In Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (Sourcebooks), out May 25, Gaines transports readers to New York in the roaring twenties to tell the story of the artists behind the revolutionary production Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team. Further, Gaines examines how lyricist Noble Sissle, composer Eubie Blake and comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles defied the odds and overcame racism, poverty and violence ...
In Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way (Sourcebooks), out May 25, Gaines transports readers to New York in the roaring twenties to tell the story of the artists behind the revolutionary production Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team. Further, Gaines examines how lyricist Noble Sissle, composer Eubie Blake and comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles defied the odds and overcame racism, poverty and violence ...
- 2/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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