The Sensational Josephine Baker Makes Its Away Broadway Premiere, Previews 9/7

Emerging Artists Theatre, the firm that made last season's hit Penny Penniworth, presents the Off-Broadway premiere from the Sensational Josephine Baker, a rich, comedic, moving music portrait in the one of a kind iconic Jazz Age legend, Josephine Baker. Preview performances start Tuesday, September 7th, opening night will likely be Tuesday, September 14 and also the perform will operate by way of Sunday, October 3rd at TADA Theatre, 15 West 28th Street, 2nd floor, concerning Broadway and 5th Avenue. Display times are: Monday and Friday at 7pm; Wednesday and Sunday at 2pm; and Saturday at 5pm and 9pm. Tickets are $49 and is usually obtained by calling 800-838-3006 or online at emergingartiststheatre.org.

Composed and done by Cheryl Howard and directed by Ian Streicher, the unforgettable tale with the one particular and only Josephine Baker springs to living in this tightly woven play featuring many of Baker's signature songs. The story follows Josephine on her journey from conservative St. Louis, Missouri to the risqu¨¦ cabarets on the Rue Pigalle, France, from tiny woman to showgirl. Howard offers voice to this uncensored and emotional tale by means of an array of fascinating female characters: Josephine's domineering mother, Carrie McDonald; fellow chorus girl Lydia Jones; Ada "Bricktop" Smith, proprietor from the infamous nightclub "Bricktop's in Montmarte..<br>." And as a final point a raw, fearless portrayal of Ms. Baker herself in a very sequence of defining moments: through the hilarious antics which rescued her in the obscurity of the chorus, on the humiliation of getting shunned by a narrow-minded American public, to her life-long research for unconditional adore..<br>. compelled all over it all by an enduring passion to live existence towards fullest.

Cheryl Howard has toured and performed extensively all through the United States and Europe. Broadway credits incorporate: Bebe in Dance a bit Closer; in the American Spot Theatre company as Zora Neale Hurston in their manufacturing Zora; on the MCC theatre reading of Black and White as Kali; Adele in Golden Motors with the Flea Theatre. Regionally, she has starred since the Witch in To the Woods; Mazeppa in Gypsy; Pattie Mae in House, the Music; LaLa inside Colored Museum; Josephine Baker in Lucky inside the Rain; Miss Monisha in Tin Pan Alley Rag; and Muzzie in Thoroughly Current Millie. Cheryl has starred as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls in Berlin, Germany, and as Josephine Baker in Josephine: The Musical, which toured throughout Europe, winning her a Golden Heart Award for Very best Actress in a Music and Ideal Audio. She has taught Music Theatre Workshops with the Stages Performing Arts Academy in St. Louis, MO and holds a B.A. in theatre arts from Rutgers University and a Masters degree in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis.

The Sensational Josephine Baker was presented as a looking at in EAT's 1 Woman Standing series final period. The Off-Broadway premiere production attributes costumes by Nicole Wee, lighting by G. Ben Swope, set by Tim McMath, music by Peter Saxe, sound by Aaron Blank and visual projections by David Bengali.

Founded in 1993, the mission of EMERGING Artists THEATRE is to deliver a dynamic home for emerging writers and performers, to produce their work from an strategy to a completely realized production. From the past 18 many years, Eat has premiered around 300 new operates, garnered a Drama Desk Award nomination for Capathia Jenkins in (Mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story, received the American Theatre Wing Award for Constant Excellence in Theatre, and was named Finest Off-Off-Broadway Theater Company in NYC for Actors to Operate With by Back Stage. Throughout its 2010- 2011 season, under the Artistic Direction of Paul Adams, Eat will showcase above two dozen new performs.