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Alicia Keys to Give Talk-Backs at Stick Fly
It was just announced that Grammy Award winning musician Alicia Keys will be participating in a series of talkbacks at Sticky Fly. The post-performance Q&A sessions will feature several members of the cast as well, and it's been reported that personal friends of Alicia Keys will serve as moderators during the discussions. The talkback schedule is as follows: Jan. 7, 2012, at 8 PM; Feb. 6, 2012, at 7 PM; Feb. 16, 2012, at 7 PM; and Feb. 26, 2012, at 7:30 PM.
Alicia Keys is not only a producer of the play, she also wrote the original music that is featured in the show.
Stick Fly, the new play by Lydia R. Diamond, is currently playing at Broadway's Cort Theatre. Directed by Kenny Leon, the play is about a well-to-do family named the LeVays who spend the weekend together at the family mansion in Martha's Vineyard. But things get complicated when the sons, aspiring writer Kent (Dulé Hill) and Flip (Mekhi Phifer), bring their girlfriends Taylor (Tracie Thoms) and Kimber (Rosie Benson)-one of whom is black, the other white-to meet the family. Soon, instead of enjoying a relaxing vacation, the family finds themselves butting heads over race issues and politics.
The cast also includes Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Seven Guitars, Gem of the Ocean, Jelly's Last Jam, Lackawanna Blues) as Kent and Flip's father, and Condola Rashad (Ruined, The Good Wife) as the family's maid.
If you can make it to one of these talkback evenings, I'd highly recommend it. They're always fun, and there's something exciting about sticking around after the show has ended and most of the rest of the audience members have filtered out of the theater and making your way down to the stage, where the crew is working to clean up after the performance and bringing the ghost light (the bare light bulb that always remains illuminated when the rest of the lights in the theater are dark) out onto the stage. The discussions are always interesting and often offer deeper insight to the play that you just saw, not to mention that it's fun to see the actors in their regular clothes, just being regular people. The last talkback I went to was with Dolly Parton after a performance of 9 to 5: The Musical, and it was a blast. The best part? It's all included in the regular ticket price. You don't have to pay anything extra!
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