The Sugar Hill Sisters

Event Description

 

SUGAR HILL SISTERS by Bil Wright

  Staged Reading to Benefit TACO

 Lamb’s Players Theatre, Coronado—7:30 p.m.

 January 21, 2013, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

 The musical THE SUGAR HILL SISTERS is the story of Jeannette and Rena, two young African-American women growing up on Harlem’s Sugar Hill in a volatile household.   As the story unfolds, there is opportunity to wonder about the power of forgiveness.  The sisters perform as a singing duo at Stuart Rose’s Downtown Club, but cannot escape their alcoholic father’s rage. Jeannette escapes to the South to become a civil rights worker and Rena starts a relationship with a married Congressman. When Rena becomes very ill, she sends for her sister, hoping they can reconcile before it’s too late.  THE SUGAR HILL SISTERS was accepted into and received a reading in the Developmental Reading Series of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival.   

 

• Monday, January 21, 2013, 7:30pm., Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• Lamb’s Players Theatre Coronado (1142 Orange Ave.)
• VIP Ticket includes an hors d’oeuvres and wine reception  with the artists prior to the performance
• Limited complimentary tickets are available for high school and performing art school students 18yrs and under
• Playwright Bil Wright: 2012 Lambda Literary Award, American Library Association Stonewall Award novelist and award winning playwright
• Composer Dionne McClain-Freeney : 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Best Ensemble Performance and nominated for NYMF’s 2011 Award for Best Orchestration
• Director Kerry Meads: Assistant Artistic Director of Lamb's Theatre and author of Lamb’s Theatre annual Christmas production
• Guest Host: Pat Launer KSDS 88.3FM theater critic
• Ticket donation: $20
• VIP Ticket: $50 preferred seating and artist reception at 6:00 p.m.
• Ticket Sales: on-line, tacosd.org or call 619-235-9445 ext. 124

 

TACO; Third Avenue Charitable Organization: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing nutrition and healthcare services to the poor and vulnerable in downtown San Diego based out of the First Lutheran Church where meals have been offered weekly since 1975.

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