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Broadway musicals have charmed the world for decades. This summer, WBTT salutes that genre with an original revue by Nate Jacobs. Sing along with your favorite songs from award-winning shows and breakthrough roles that helped launch the careers of such Black artists as Melba Moore in Purlie, Ben Vereen in Pippin, Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls, and Nell Carter in Ain’t Misbehavin’. It’s Broadway, WBTT style…electrifying!
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe presented EUBIE!, a celebration of the music of Eubie Blake, the Father of Black Broadway, October 6-November 21, 2021. The show features more than 20 Eubie Blake classics, including "I'm Just Wild About Harry," "Honeysuckle Time," "Roll Jordan" and many others. We’re just wild about Eubie!
In our 2021-2022 season we premiered our newest “Christmas card to the community,” which joins A Motown Christmas and Black Nativity in our annual rotation of holiday shows. Joyful! Joyful! includes music from groups like Earth, Wind & Fire, The Staple Singers and Stevie Wonder, as well as new versions of holiday classics that are part of the holiday traditions many of us share. For people of all faiths and even for non-believers, the songs and the show carry universal messages of hope, peace, love and childlike wonder.
From Birmingham to Broadway is a tour-de-force tribute to Broadway singer and TV actress Nell Carter. Written by and starring powerhouse performer Tarra Conner jones, the play combines music, comedy and drama as Tarra embodies the never-give-up spirit of this shining star of stage and screen. Float Like a Butterfly stars WBTT newcomer Darius Autry as the greatest-of-all-time boxer Muhammad Ali in this homage to a man who took a stand against the Vietnam war and injustice in America. Ali was much more than a boxer, he showed the world he could “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” — far beyond the boxing ring. The playwright is Nate's brother, Michael Jacobs.