BETH TURNER
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Plays by Beth Turner
Come Liberty |
| 1st Produced: | Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Teachers, Inc., New York | 1976 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Ode to Mariah-(A Miracle of Sunshine) |
| 1st Produced: | Reading, Frank Silvera Writ-ers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York | 1975 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Sing On, Ms. .Gri |
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| 1st Published: | Afro-American Total Theatre, Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art, New York, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Childrens Musical | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | "Mansa Musa, the African ruler sum-moned up from the fourteenth century to judge a contest arising from an argument over whether Afro-Americans have maintained their heritage fully as much as native Africans-Townsend Brewster, Newsletter of the Harlem Cultural Council, vol. 2, no. 11 | |||||
Sweet Mama Stringbean |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
| Company: | New Federal Theater | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Aging and severely overweight, legendary stage and film star Ethel Waters is faced with a waning career and the prospect of an impoverished old age, when, a dream of a childhood spiritual awakening opens her to a new future with the Billy Graham Crusade. Ethel Waters grew up in poverty and squalor in a section of Philadelphia called Whores Alley and later began a career in entertainment that spanned nearly 60 years throughout the depression era, Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s; and at the beginning of the television era. Sweet Mama Stringbean shows two Ethels: a wild and adventurous skinny woman able to introduce songs like 'Sweet Georgia Brown', 'Dinah', 'Am I Blue', and 'Stormy Weather'; and the older 275-pound spiritual Broadway dramatic actress who starred in 'Mambas Daughter' and 'Member of the Wedding', as well as defining her life through the song 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow' - press release | |||||