Juneteenth Blues Cabaret
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's Juneteenth Blues Cabaret is a 70 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
Juneteent Blues Cabaret Bios
Cherita A. Armstrong (Blues Queen) hails from the "Big Apple" and has acted in: The Old Settler, Seven Guitars, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Splash Hatch On the E Going Down, Oak & Ivy, Beehive, Tambourines To Glory, The African Company Presents Richard III, The Best of the Genius of Ray; at New York theaters and Regional companies. Film credits include: Nowhere to Go But Up, Better Dayz; Television: Law&Order:Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, All My Children, and various commercials.
ANGELA S. ARNOLD (Blues Queen) hails from the land of bourbon and thoroughbred horse racing, Louisville, KY. The singer/actress has performed in Ain't Misbehavin', St. Louis Black Rep; Gospel at Colonus, African Globe Theatre (Newark, NJ). Equally adept at comedy, Ms. Arnold appeared in Shakin' 'The Mess Outta Misery, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York Cityand in TheatreWorksUSA 's tour If You Give A Mouse Cookie and Other Story Books. Other credits include: Sing-Along-Santa, Phoenix Productions; Permission, A Rock Mythology, Red PlanetProductions; and Motion and Location, Midtown International Theatre Festival/NYC.
IVAN THOMAS (Cool Dude/Music Direction) hails from the Golden Arch city of St. Louis. Ivan's repertoire includes blues, jazz, Broadway musicals and opera. Among his many credits are: "Crown" in Porgy and Bess which he has performed on 5 continents; “Gerard”, Andrea Chenier; “Valentin”, Faust; and the title role, Don Giovanni. He has performed in legit theater as “Othello”, “Page”, Merry Wives and Winters Tale. He premiered the song, "Heal Their Hearts" in the Irish sensation, Riverdance, and has performed and toured in many Broadway shows such as Big River and On The Town.
For fee and scheduling information:
juneteenthlegacy@aol.com
212-964-1904
