Black Musicals on Broadway
by Sue Lawless with pianist/composer Grendolo Frazier
Sat. June 13; 8 p.m.

An enchanting evening of Broadway show tunes and music revues of the 20th Century from Shuffle Along to Hello Dolly to Dreamgirls!

Grenoldo Frazier, a returning Jamboree guest artist, composer, lyricist, pianist, singer and actor, is a three-time Audelco award winner for Best Supporting Actor, Robert Johnson Trick the Devil (‘93); Music Director/Arranger, God’s Trombones (‘91); and Composer, Deadwood Dick (’80.) Grenoldo’s Broadway credits include Hello, Dolly! with Pearl Bailey and Micki Grant’s Your Arms Too Short To Box With God; Off-Broadway credits are Moms with Clarice Taylor (The Cosby Show) and Mama I Want to Sing.

Grenoldo has performed several times with JLT including: Billy, Lena and The Duke: A Night of Ellington Music! Juneteenth Cotton Club Revue, Swee' Pea and the Duke, Robert Johnson Trick the Devil, and The Genius of Ray. His television credits are: One Life To Live and Sesame Street, voice of “Disco D.” Grenoldo is a graduate of the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill.

Sue Lawless returns to the Jamboree for a fourth season! Sue has directed on Broadway The Five O’clock Girl; off –Broadway The Rise Of David Levinsky, Cut The Ribbons, Body Shop, Potholes, and In Gay Company, earning a Drama Desk Best Musical Director Nomination. Sue serves on the Tony committee representing the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

In her professional career which has spanned forty years, Sue has directed almost 500 plays, operas, and musicals at prestigious theaters: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, George Street Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse.

Sue has directed many productions for JLT including: Bang! Bang! Bang! Again and Again, The Lives of Young Black Folk, Motion and Location, Juneteenth Blues Cabaret, The Last Dust Track and Faith, Hope and Charity: The Mary McLeod Bethune Story.