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The cast of Black Girls Monologues will make a special guest appearance, to talk about the premiere of Black Girls Monologue (Cicely Tyson Performance Arts Theater) on the Economic Roundtable & The Marketplace Business Forum Show, Monday, November 16, 2015 at 11:30am – 12:30pm (EST) or 12:30pm – 2:30pm (AST). To Listen LIVE to The Economic Roudtable & The Marketplace every Monday via radio on AM 970 WSTX. Click Here
Take a listen to Broadway Star Actor Dennis Stowe special guest appearance on Kalalloo Radio.
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Broadway Star Actor Dennis Stowe this Saturday (10am-12pm) on Good Morning Caribbean. Dennis most recently appeared on Broadway as Caesar in Leap of Faith at the St.James Theatre. His other Broadway credits include;Shrek the Musical (Papa Bear);The Apple Tree starring Kristin Chenowith; The Wedding Singer (Mr.T);Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Wonderful Town starring Brooke Shields; and the 2002 Revival of Man of LaMancha starring Brian Stokes Mitchell. Other NY credits include: Marcus in Judas and Me(NYMF); Jarvik in Citizen Ruth(Fringe);Stairway to Paradise(Encores); and Jerry Springer the Opera at Carnegie Hall. Regionally, he has performed such roles as Andre in Aint’ Misbehavin at Weston Playhouse;Moe Green in the world premiere of Cutman at The Goodspeed Opera House;Fred in Smokey Joe’s Cafe at the Papermill Playhouse to name a few. Dennis has also toured nationally as Bernardo in West Side Story(2002),Copacabana and through Europe in My One and Only. He can be seen in films like Across the Universe and Preachin to the Choir, and on the small screen in John Leguizamo’s House of Buggin. You can catch Dennis this fall as Lt.Ward in the new Broadway-revival of Annie at the Palace Theatre.
BrownShugar Enterprise presents #BLACKGIRLMONOLOGUES
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, September 13, 2015 – A new and exciting stage play will make its debut performance at Cicely Tyson Performance Arts Theater that will feature 13 monologues by 13 very dynamic and intriguing black women. In addition, portions of the events proceeds will go Girls Live, Love, Laugh LLC in Newark, NJ as a charitable effort in support of this essential outreach mentoring program to young girls, teenagers and their families. The goal is to assist in ensuring that we assist in their ‘GoFundMe’ New Commuting Van campaign efforts to raise the benevolent care they already provide young women. By aiding in their goal we help to ensure they are able to see commute is able to continue for the quarter million female residents in the Essex County, New Jersey communities.
When you join us for the stage performance of #BlackGirlsMonologues, 13 women will express our brand of sisterhood. Through each monologue, we pave roads unchartered, where we lay our troubles down on that stage and leave them there. Through these very different, but powerful acts, we fully acknowledge and claim our power as women. In communicating our authentic weaknesses or strongholds, the cast of #BGM offer the experience to congregate together through dialogue and leave stronger both individually and collectively – hearing, seeing and loving each other across subject matters once considered taboo but yet plagued us and stalled our progression.
The women of #BlackGirlsMonologues will honor those struggles, triumphs and generational curses by giving them voice, movement and healing energy to release and move on. The monologues you will witness are indeed vulnerable; exposing truths not always realized. The cast will collectively acknowledge our insecurities and flaws as women of color and make peace with being multi-layered beings with needs and desires that may conflict, but nevertheless make us beautifully human….#BlackWomen.
Set for Saturday, December 12, 2015, the social events company, BrownShugar Enterprise, in conjunction with Sharronda Thompson and Kisha Hudson, will host and direct the stage play. Red carpet arrivals will begin at 5:00 pm and will lead into the venue’s VIP Seating & Picture area followed by the first act to commence at 6:00 pm. To be held at Cicely Tyson Performance Arts Theater in East Orange, New Jersey. Kalalloo Network Entertainment Showcase & Sound Stage will bring LIVE Video & Radio Streaming of Red Carpet Event right here on the Broadway and Off Broadway Show & News Channel. For more details please visit click here
Legendary Actor Cicely Tyson and the Cicely Tyson Performance Arts Theater in East Orange, New Jersey
Tyson was born and raised in Harlem, the daughter of Frederica, a domestic, and William Tyson, who worked as a carpenter, painter, and at any other jobs he could find. Her parents were immigrants from Nevis in the West Indies. Her father arrived in New York City at age 21 and was processed at Ellis Island on August 4, 1919.
Tyson was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model. Her first acting role was on the NBC series Frontiers of Faith in 1951. Her first film role was in Carib Gold in 1956, but she went on to do more television work, such as the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genet’s The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. She appeared with Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film A Man Called Adam (1966) and starred in the film version of Graham Greene’s The Comedians (1967). Tyson had a featured role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), and appeared in a segment of Roots.
In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed Sounder. In 1974, she won twoEmmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Other acclaimed television roles included Roots; King, in which she portrayedCoretta Scott King, The Marva Collins Story, When No One Would Listen, and The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, for which she received her third Emmy Award. In 1982, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women, who through their endurance and the excellence of their work have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.
The Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts, a magnet school in East Orange, New Jersey, was renamed in her honor. She plays an active part in supporting the school, which serves one of New Jersey’s most underprivileged African-American communities.
At the 67th Tony Awards on June 9, 2013, Tyson won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful.[14] She also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the role.
Carib Gold (1956) is a maritime-themed B-movie, written and filmed almost entirely in Key West, Florida, with locally-cast musicians and extras. It is most notable for its largely African-American cast headlined by Ethel Waters, featuring the first known film roles for both Geoffrey Holder and Cicely Tyson.
Thought lost for decades, the film is now in the public domain and was digitized in early 2012 and released online for free public viewing by Southern Methodist University, as part of the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at the university’s Hamon Art Library.