Passing Strange
Broadway Musical Previews
February 8 2008
Opened February 28 2008
Closed July 20 2008 Run
20 previews & 165 performances Running
time 2 hrs 10 mins | 1 intermission Producer
The Shubert Organization, Elizabeth Ireland
McCann, Bill Kenwright, Chase Mishkin, Barbara Freitag, et al
Creative
Stew book & lyrics
Stew & Heidi Rodewald music & orchestrations
Annie Dorsen director
Karole Armitage choreographer
Elizabeth Hope Clancy costume design
Kevin Adams lighting design
David Korins scenic design
Tom Morse sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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de'Adre Aziza |
Edwina
Marianna
Sudabey |
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Daniel Breaker |
Youth |
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Eisa Davis |
Mother |
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Colman Domingo |
Franklin
Joop
Mr Venus |
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Chad Goodridge |
Terry
Christophe
Hugo |
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Rebecca Naomi Jones |
Sherry
Renata
Desi |
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Stew |
Narrator |
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Synopsis
A confused young musician's search
for his emotional and spiritual voice, "the real", outside of black,
middle-class Los Angeles takes him to Amsterdam and Berlin. The
usual combination of sex, drugs, rock and roll tinged with the
ever-present European politics do help him discover and understand
himself
The Road to Broadway
Passing Strange had its
genesis in Travelogue, a cabaret piece performed at, among
other venues, Joe's Pub, the club inside New York's
Public Theater. The Public then commissioned Stew and Ms
Rodewald to transform it into a work for the theater
Passing was developed at the
Sundance Institute's Theatre Lab in the summers of 2004 and
2005. The show premiered at California's
Berkeley
Repertory Theatre on October 15, 2006. Its New York City deb was
at the Public, May 1, 2007, with the same cast that went on to
Broadway
In the Movies
Spike Lee filmed two performances of
Passing Strange with audiences present on July 19, 2008 and
took July 21st, the day after the show closed, to get shots without
an audience in the way. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival
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