Bold Journey Tour
BOLD JOURNEY Tour has cabaret and bio-drama productions that illuminate the African-American experience and its legacy. Our shows are excellent family fare that entertains and educates. Our shows have played at venues as varied as 400-seat proscenium stages, recital halls, school auditoriums, library community rooms and senior centers.
BOLD JOURNEY Tour productions can be contracted for single or group-block performances and can be tailored to fit your programming needs from 45 to 90 minutes. Our tour prices fit every budget with fees ranging from $1000 - $7500*.
Juneteenth Legcy Theatre is a member of the Alliance of Resident Theaters in New York (ART/NY) and NET (National Ensemble Theaters).
Our tour productions have played at theater festivals, National Black Theatre Festival (NC); colleges, Purdue University and Kentucky State; non-profit companies, Black Spectrum Theater (NYC); across Kentucky, Alhambra (Hopkinsville) and Historic State Theater (Elizabethtown); senior centers, Hamilton Grange (Harlem/NYC) and Eldercare (Louisville, KY) and several others.
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's BOLD JOURNEY Tour repetoire consists of:
Billy, Lena and The Duke: a Night of Ellington Music!
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Billy, Lena and The Duke: a Night of Ellington Music!, our latest work, with 31 classic standards composed by Ellington and Strayhorn and popularized by Ms. Horne.
SONG LIST
Overture, Just Squeeze Me But Don’t Tease Me, Satin Dolls, It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, In a Sentimental Mood, Mood Indigo, Solitude, St. Louis Blues, I’m Beginning to See the Light, ‘Deed I Do, There’ll Be Some Changes Made, Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine, Come Rain or Come Shine, From This Moment On, How Deep is the Ocean, The Lady is a Tramp, Take the A Train, Cottontail (Instrumental),Sophisticated Ladies(Instrumental), Lush Life, The Man I Love, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Something To Live For, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, Stormy Weather, I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good, I’ve Got A Right to Sing the Blues, Bli-Blip, Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me, Rocks in My Bed, Just a Sittin’ and a Rockin’, It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing (reprise)
Juneteenth Blues Cabaret
Juneteenth Blues Cabaret was nominated for 4 AUDELCOs as Outstanding Musical of the Year (2010), Outstanding Female Lead in a Musical, Outstanding Musical Director and Outstanding Director of a Musical. Juneteenth Blues Cabaret was featured at the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina, August 2011. (Click here for Winston-Salem Journal review) review. Juneteenth Blues Cabaret is a 90 minute, 24-song classic blues tribute to legendary African-American women blues singers Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday,Dinah Washington and Lena Horne.
The 24-Classic Blues Set List:
Bessie Smith: Aggravatin’ Papa,Good Ole Wagon, Fine Fat Daddy,
If I Could Be With You.
Ethel Waters: There’ll Be Some Changes Made, I Love My Man,
Shake That Thing, Sweet Georgia Brown, Cabin in the Sky.
Billie Holiday: Summertime, Baby Won’t You Please Come Home,
Lady Sings the Blues,Taint Nobody Bizness If I Do,God Bless the Child.
Dinah Washington: The Blues Aint Nothin But a Woman Cryin For Her Man,
It’s a Mean Ole Man’s World, Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Mornin,
What a Difference a Day Made, No One Man.
Lena Horne: Stormy Weather, St. Louis Woman, I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues,
What Is This Thing Called Love,The Man I Love.
Faith, Hope, and Charity
Faith Hope and Charity: The Mary McLeod Bethune Story is an inspiring bio-drama, with gospel score, about educator/activist Bethune’s rise from illiterate sharecropper’s daughter to presidential advisor.
For fee and scheduling information:
juneteenthlegacy@aol.com
212-964-1904
*Fees do not include travel related expenses.
