All Blues
All Blues – World Premiere
September 22 – October 9 2011
Written by Robert Earl Price
Directed by Dale Daigle
In Co-production with Washington College, Chestertown, MD
All Blues is the true story of Ray Sprigle, a white journalist who sets out to report on the black experience in the 1948 Jim Crow South first-hand, by disguising himself as a black man for 30 days. Assumption, observations and injustices are explored using the music of Oscar Brown, Jr. and Miles Davis.
Show times:
September 22 – October 9, 2011
Thursday- Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday 5:00 pm
Tickets are $30 (All Inclusive of taxes and fees)
Group, student, and senior citizen rates are also available.
All Blues Washington College Cast – This cast will perform Sept 22 – 25 in Atlanta
Del Hamilton – Ray Sprigle
Bob Ortiz – John Wesley Dobbs
Karen Somerville – We Are Healed
Polly Sommerfeld – Slight
Mike Zurawski – The Man
Chorus
Marta Wesenberg
John Lesser
Phaedra Scott
Harris Allgeier
Zach Weidner.
Atlanta Cast of All Blues – This cast will perform September 29 – October 9
Del Hamilton – Ray Sprigle
Dorothy Bell – We Are Healed
Johnell Easter – Slight
Michael Molina – John
Patrick McColery – The Man
I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days
Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow.
As he wrote in his 21-part series,
“I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days”:
“I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage — not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either.’’
SPECIAL EVENTS FOR All Blues
Friday, September 16, 2011 – Sneak-Peak Performance at the High Museums Friday Night Jazz
Sunday September 18, 2011 – Sneak-Peak Performance at Apache Café
Friday, September 23, 2011 – 40 Acres and a Mule: A Discussion on Racial Healing
Saturday, September 24, 2011 – Art House Production Party 8 PM Tickets are $50 the evening will include a performance by Jed Drummond, food from The Wrecking Bar & Stir it Up
Sunday, September 25, 2011 – Artist Talk at Hammonds House with Photographer David S. Johnson & Robert Earl Price 3 PM – 4 PM
Friday, September 30th, 2011 – Open Mic Jam AfterParty artists, musicians, poets, activists and audience have an opportunity to respond to the show through this experience. Michael Milina will host the “open mic” featuring Dorothy Bell
Saturday, October 1, 2011 – Master Workshop – New Music, New Moves, New Anthem: Creating a new National Anthem for a new America 1 PM – 4 PM
Friday, October 7, 2011 – Where the Blues Was Born AfterParty a mix up performance of excerpts from Michael’s book “Where the Blues was Born and his CD “Heart”
