Stop, Frisk and All That Jazz How will three black Broadway singers, profiled by NYPD, survive The System? Show Essentials 7 MALE ROLES (6 AFRICAN AMERICAN, 1 WHITE) 1 FEMALE ROLE (AFRICAN AMERICAN) RATED PG, 90 MINUTES Full Synopsis Circa 1998, New York is under the reign of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Sam…
Author: Lee Summers
Actor/Director/Librettist/Lyricist/Composer and Educator, presently Acting Adjunct Faculty at The Steinhardt School’s Department of Music & Performing Arts Professions at New York University
Yo’ Alice – A Hip Hop Alice in Wonderland
Loosely based upon Lewis Carroll’s“Alice In Wonderland” & “Through The Looking Glass” Book byLee Summers Music and Lyrics by Timothy Graphenreed & Lee Summers Conceived byMaurice Hines In Yo’ Alice, Lewis Carroll’s young heroine is embodied by an Alice of color, set in 1999. A mean Queen of R&B dominates all prompting Alice to find…
Lee Summers and Kevin Ramsey’s Tap Dance Tale of Harlem in prelude to Gentrification: “I REMEMBER HARLEM” (Formerly: “If These Shoes Could Talk”)
Book by Kevin Ramsey and Lee Summers Music and Lyrics by Lee Summers and Kevin Ramsey I Remember Harlem opens on the funeral of a recently deceased African American song and dance man of yesterday whose deferred dreams of stardom had culminated as a Harlem bootblack (shoe shine man) next door to the World Famous Apollo…
OFF-BROADWAY
Off-Broadway’s ‘From My Hometown’ – the three-man Rhythm and Blues musical, featuring twenty-four Classic Soul Hits is now available for Licensing! Celebrating 12 Regional Productions!
‘Ella, First Lady of Song’
Maurice Hines and Lee Summers’ ‘Ella, First Lady of Song’ slated for Madison Theatre at Molloy in 2022. Available for Licensing!
Lee Summers and Janet Noh’s “Pangaea: The Musical”….Imagine, actors personifying Europe, North America, Australia, Antarctica, South America, Asia and Africa as complicated, siblings on a quest to save the world…
The Funkentine Rapture Musical
Lee Summers is developing Broadway’s first FUNK musical! The Funkentine Rapture is planned for a developmental production is 2021.
LaChanze, Lenox, Cooper, Braxton and others raise $3,500 to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS via Summers’ ‘Just A Piano,’ 10th Anniversary Concert.
Emmy-nominee Tituss Burgess joins cast for Just A Piano BC/EFA Benefit Concert on 10/10/2016 Emmy-nominee Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) has been added to the starry lineup for Just A Piano Benefit Concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Monday, 10/10 at 9pm at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street). This year the Just A Piano…
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