Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Opening our 2022-203 Season of Joy, we have AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'! The inimitable ...
A classic song-and-dance show that’s often dismissed as a frothy revue shows its full force as a carefully constructed piece of deeply affecting musical theater in director/choreographer Jeffrey L.
Ain't Misbehavin', The Fats Waller Musical, performed in the retro ambience of The National World War II Museum's BB's Stage Door Canteen, begins with the title song, composed by Waller in 1929, and ...
The song “Black and Blue” has always been powerful. But as staged in Orlando Shakes’ production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” it carries a particularly somber weight. “Remember,” the number seems to say to ...
It was a time when the cool cats of the coolest of cities, New York, would routinely head each night to the Cotton Club to get their fill of the coolest new beat, swing. It was the time when Thomas ...
— “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” music by Thomas “Fats” Waller and Harry Brooks, lyrics by Andy Razaf, 1929 Another, lesser-known song by Fats Waller in the often raucous, sometimes deeply moving show “Ain’t ...
It was quite a journey for Great Lakes Theater to finally see its production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” come to fruition, with the pandemic responsible for delaying its 2022 opening. To quote the title ...
(L-R) Paris Bennett, David LaMarr and Melrose Johnson in TUTS' production of Ain't Misbehavin'. Credit: Photo by Melissa Taylor A woman-dressed in a red feathered flapper hat and a red dress straight ...
Phoenix Productions is looking for performers 18+ for its production of Ain’t MIsbehavin’, playing on Friday March 27 and ...
A joyous celebration of the music of Thomas “Fats” Waller, the Rubicon Theatre Company’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ — set in 1930s Harlem and a three-time Tony Award winner when it debuted on ...
Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the passing of Harlem Renaissance jazz pianist and composer Thomas “Fats” Waller. So it’s understandable if today’s audiences aren’t familiar with some of ...
“Ain’t Misbehavin’,” the classic revue now at The Rev, celebrates the legacy of Harlem Renaissance musical giant Fats Waller. The show tells us very little about the man himself in narrative, instead ...