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SANDRA REAVES-PHILLIPS [100%]

in

THE LATE GREAT LADIES OF BLUES AND JAZZ [100%]

with

THE ALL-STAR JAZZ BAND [40%]

PAUL RAMSEY - Musical Direction [35%]

Conceived and Written By

SANDRA REAVES-PHILLIPS [35%]

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MICHAEL HANNAH [35%]

Production Supervisor

CHRISTOPHER DUNLOP [35%]

Directed by

RICK KAHN [40%]

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THE LATE GREAT LADIES OF BLUES AND JAZZ

MUSICAL NUMBERS

Act 1

INSTRUMENTALS......................……..THE ALL-STAR JAZZ BAND

OPENING: Sandra ReAves-Phillips

Blues Lament.................................…ReAves-Phillips

Take Me As I Am................................ReAves-Phillips

MA RAINEY

Strut Miss Lizzie...........................…...Creamer/Layton

C. C. Rider .........................................Ma Rainey

BESSIE SMITH

Gimme a Pigfoot.................................. ..Wilson

I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
….C.Williams/D.Small/J.Brynn

Put It Right Here...............................…..Granger

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out...........I.Cox

ETHEL WATERS

Shake That Thing..................................Jackson

Medley: Stormy Weather.......................Arlen/Kohler

St. Louis Blues ....................….W.C.Handy

His Eye Is on the Sparrow……………. Gabriel/Frank

Act 11 BILLIE HOLIDAY

Solitude ........................………………..Ellington/Lange/Mills

God Bless the Child.....................……..Holiday/Herzog

DINAH WASHINGTON

Trouble, Trouble..............................…..Unknown

Please Send Me Someone to Love.......Mayfield

What a Difference a Day Makes............Adams/Grever

MAHALIA JACKSON TESTIMONIAL

*Program subject to change

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission

Additional Credits

Arrangements…………………………..Larry Ball, Richard Harper, Daryl Waters

Original Staging Consultant…………..Mike Malone

Movement Consultant…………………Lacy Daryl Phillips

Special thanks to Bernard Johnson, Clyde Williams, Ralph Dorsey, and Merv Bronson