Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Broadway Drama Previews
March 19 2009
Opened April 16 2009
Limited run to June 14 2009
Run 31 previews & 69 performances Producer
Lincoln Center Theatre
Creative
August Wilson author
Bartlett Sher director
Catherine Zuber costume design
Brian MacDevitt lighting design
Michael Yeargan scenic design
Scott Lehrer sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Marsha Stephanie Blake |
Mattie Campbell |
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Chad L Coleman |
Herald Loomis |
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Michael Cummings |
Reuben Scott |
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Aunjanue Ellis |
Molly Cunningham |
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Danai Gurira |
Martha Pentecost |
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Andre Holland |
Jeremy Furlow |
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Arliss Howard |
Rutherford Selig |
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Ernie Hudson |
Seth Holly |
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LaTanya Richardson Jackson |
Bertha Holly |
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Amari Rose Leigh |
Zonia Loomis |
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Roger Robinson |
Bynum Walker |
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Synopsis
Pittsburgh, 1911, amidst the Great
Migration of sons and daughters of freed slaves from the South to
the North in search of work -- and more. Many pass through Seth and
Bertha Holly's boarding house. Bynum Walker is a spiritualist who
uses song to "bind" people. Herald Loomis and daughter Zonia are in
search of his wife, her mother. Jeremy wants confidence and an
abatement of his loneliness. Mattie wants her husband, or maybe just
somebody else to love. Molly simply missed her train
Underneath all there is the fear.
Fear of new places, new people. Fear that jobs will go to other
white people immigrating from Europe during the height of that other
Great Migration
Fear of not fulfilling their dreams
Broadway Show History
Joe Turner's Come and Gone had
its Broadway premiere on March 27, 1988 at the Ethel Barrymore
Theater. Directed by Lloyd Richards it played 105 performances and
received six 1988 Tony®,
nominations including three for featured actress, Kimberleigh Aarn,
Kimberly Scott and L Scott Caldwell, the winner
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