The New York Times – Music:
Encores! revisits a Jazz Age tale of debauchery, with showstoppers from Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Jordan Donica, Tonya Pinkins and others.
Category: Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert (Series)
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‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Returns, Bringing a Jazz Tale to a New Generation
The New York Times – Music:
Jason Michael Webb, the show’s guest music director, said he wants audiences at the musical about Jelly Roll Morton to experience “a time period that does not exist anymore.”
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Seymour Press, a Behind-the-Scenes Fixture on Broadway, Dies at 98
The New York Times – Music:
He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.