This funny, sexy, exuberant world premiere, written by an award-winning playwright, traces the life of Josephine Baker from Jim Crow America to Paris, where she became a stage sensation. Hold on to your seats as the Bronze Venus takes our theater by storm with her barely-there dresses and no-holds-barred dance routines. Baker is the ultimate rags-to-riches story despite the difficult times in which she lived. The play opens in 1919 with Josephine as a young girl determined to escape the grinding poverty and racial violence of her world through nerve, talent, wit, and an unbreakable will. She grows from unschooled ghetto teenager from East St. Louis to a sophisticated, self-educated entertainer right before your eyes.