16th Anniversary Celebration – Unbroken Spirit: For the Love of the Music
A powerful night celebrating groundbreaking contributions of Black musicians to American Musical Theater
With The Tammy L. Hall Quartet
Featuring our “Unbroken” Musicians Tammy L. Hall – Piano, Ashley Jemison – Saxophone, Gary Brown – Bass, Deszon Claiborne – Drums
with Vocalists: Nicolas Bearde, B. DeVeaux, Takiyah Franklin, Bradley Kynard, Leberta Lorál, Branice McKenzie, Valerie Troutt, AND Introducing… Kimiko Sanaa and Grace Russell.
Say Their Names
Here we acknowledge those ancestors who were among the first to trip the light fantastic! Including,…
The Hyers Sisters:
Anna Madah & Emma Louise
Noble Sissle
Eubie Blake
Flournoy Miller
Will Marion Cook
Aubrey Lyles
Bert Williams
Ira Aldridge
Scott Joplin
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Thomas “Fats” Waller
Charles Sidney Gilpin
Lew Payton
Paul Robeson
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
James Earl Jones
Ethel Waters
Todd Duncan
J. Rosamond Johnson
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Sidney Poitier
Harry Belafonte
Geoffrey Holder
Carmen de Lavallade
Rose McClendon
Vinette Justine Carroll
Langston Hughes
Avon Long
Harriett Jackson
Elsie Benjamin
Josephine Baker
Beah Davis
Dorothy Dandridge
Mercedes Gilbert
Mabel Sanford Lewis
Avon Long
Linda Hopkins
Lena Horne
Vanoye Aikens
Frauline Alvor
Maurice Ellis
Francis Smith
Hattie McIntosh
Rex Ingram
George Walker
Ada Overton Walker
Katherine Dunham
Diahann Carroll
Pearl Bailey
Juanita Hall
Eartha Kitt
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson
Ntozake Shange
Oscar Brown, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Cleavon Little
Phyllis Hyman
Charlie Smalls
Quincy Jones
Gregory Hines
Maurice Hines
Nell Carter
Plus, all the Black Broadway performers, Black Tony winners, and MANY more…
WATCH Inspiration for Unbroken Spirit: For the Love of the Music
LISTEN Deeper into Unbroken Spirit: For the Love of the Music
SEE our night of Unbroken Spirit photo gallery
