All Black Concert of Hair the Musical Announces Auditions
Creating In Color Music and the Black Theatre Coalition are proud to present a new concert series featuring entirely Black casts at the legendary Stonewall Inn. Following our inaugural sold out concert of Hello Dolly, our next concert will be Hair In Concert and will be on May 23rd at 7:00 PM. On April 25th from 3:00 to 7:00 PM we will be holding auditions at Ripley Grier. We ask that singers who are interested in the performance join us prepared to sing any pop, rock, or R&B song of their choice or to sing from the score. Please note that the concert of Hair will be performed in brand new arrangements that take these songs in new and surprising directions. Please contact us at
4creatingincolor@gmail.com to set up an appointment to be seen or to submit video.
Hair in Concert will be directed by Amy Marie Haven (former Associate Artistic Director of San Francisco’s African-American Shakespeare Company and current Producing Fellow at the Music Man on Broadway) and musically directed by John Bronston (former musical director of the North American tour of Hair and current Music Direction Fellow at Tina on Broadway). The Creating in Color Concert Series exists to produce concerts performed and helmed by Black artists using music from the American musical theatre canon regardless of whether it was written to be performed by Black artists. We aim to examine what has historically made things Black musicals and what Black musicals can look like in the future through works written to be performed by Black cast, shows historically performed by casts of color, and shows that historically excluded or segregated Black actors. In addition we hope to explore what the sound of Blackness can be on Broadway and beyond.
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