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RHYTHM AND BLUES.(Theater Review)
Toward the end of August Wilson's exquisite play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (revived at the Royale, under the deft direction of Marion McClinton), the eponymous Delta blues singer, whose low throaty contralto broadcasts her impudence and her independence, turns to her session musicians and opines about the blues (which the real Rainey claimed to have christened in 1902 on a tent-show junket). "White folks don't understand about the blues," she says. "They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life." The blues are catastrophe ...
- 'MA RAINEY' DELIVERS A MOST POWERFUL MESSAGE.(U)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 20, 2004 700+ words
...Mother of the Blues,'' Ma Rainey (Devine), is running...stronger. It is Levee, not Ma Rainey, who is the main focus...charge, and bass player Slow Drag (Bill Lee Brown) just...on stage, Devine's Ma Rainey truly commands the spotlight...
- 'Ma Rainey' shines as blues statement.(ARTS)(THEATER)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 16, 2002 700+ words
...rehearsal room waiting for Ma Rainey to arrive. They rag on...father figure Toledo is Slow Drag (Clinton Derricks-Carroll...of his bass. Although Slow Drag is forever dancing and...over the old style of Ma Rainey's blues for something...
- WILSON'S 'MA RAINEY' IS SEARING, POWERFUL
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff January 7, 1988 700+ words
...plays trombone, and Slow Drag, who plays bass...problems ranging from Ma Rainey's ego to technical...has even produced Ma Rainey in the feathered...s direction, "Ma Rainey's" Trinity production...Akin Babatunde as Slow Drag, each is memorable...
- Blues for Whoopi's Ma Rainey: Broadway Revival Haunted By...
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) February 17, 2003 700+ words
...definitive production" of Ma Rainey took place in 1984. That...said to have left the Ma Rainey cast early in rehearsals...Henderson's bass player, Slow Drag. We last saw this exemplary...white-hating diva, Ma Rainey. Ms. Goldberg is also...
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Newspaper article from: Windy City Times Morgan, Scott C October 7, 2009 700+ words
...caliber cast. With Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, director...of the 20th century, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom bears...C. Smith (bassist Slow Drag) and Alfred E. Smith...unwisely clashes with Ma Rainey (a note-perfect and...
- ACTORS DON'T GET ACROSS POINT OF 'MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM'.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 4, 1989 700+ words
...August Wilson's drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" arrived...lives of the characters - Slow Drag, Cutler, Levee and...while they wait for Ma Rainey, the lead singer, to...Levee's version of Ma Rainey's "Black Bottom...
- `MA RAINEY' ACTRESS LOVES SAYING THE WORDS OF `BLACK AMERICA'S...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Adcock, Joe January 21, 2005 700+ words
...of black Southerners - as his play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (set in Chicago...Seattle Repertory Theatre production of "Ma Rainey" that opens Wednesday is Cynthia Jones...Alabama." Singer/songwriter Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939) was famous as the "mother...
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Comes To The Springer Theater
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Times Susie Chandler January 11, 1994 700+ words
...Chandler Columbus Times 01-11-1994 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Comes To Springer Theater. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson, sponsored...song written and recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. The title recalls the "black- bottom...
