The Sensational Josephine Baker Makes Its Off of Broadway Premiere, Previews 9/7

Emerging Performers Theatre, the corporation that made very last season's hit Penny Penniworth, presents the Off-Broadway premiere of the Sensational Josephine Baker, a rich, comedic, moving music portrait on the special iconic Jazz Age legend, Josephine Baker. Preview performances commence Tuesday, September 7th, opening night will probably be Tuesday, September 14 along with the perform will run through Sunday, October 3rd at TADA Theatre, 15 West 28th Street, 2nd floor, between Broadway and 5th Avenue. Indicate times are: Monday and Friday at 7pm; Wednesday and Sunday at 2pm; and Saturday at 5pm and 9pm. Tickets are $49 and might be acquired by calling 800-838-3006 or on the net at emergingartiststheatre.org.

Composed and performed by Cheryl Howard and directed by Ian Streicher, the unforgettable story with the one and only Josephine Baker springs to life in this tightly woven play featuring several of Baker's signature songs. The tale follows Josephine on her journey from conservative St. Louis, Missouri to the risqu¨¦ cabarets with the Rue Pigalle, France, from small woman to showgirl. Howard offers voice to this uncensored and emotional tale by way of an array of fascinating female characters: Josephine's domineering mother, Carrie McDonald; fellow chorus woman Lydia Jones; Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner with the infamous nightclub "Bricktop's in Montmarte..<br>." And as a final point a raw, fearless portrayal of Ms. Baker herself in the series of defining moments: on the hilarious antics which rescued her on the obscurity from the chorus, towards the humiliation of being shunned by a narrow-minded American public, to her life-long research for unconditional appreciate... compelled through it all by an enduring passion to reside lifetime to the fullest.

Cheryl Howard has toured and carried out extensively through the United States and Europe. Broadway credits incorporate: Bebe in Dance a little Closer; on the American Place Theatre firm as Zora Neale Hurston in their creation Zora; on the MCC theatre reading of Black and White as Kali; Adele in Golden Motors with the Flea Theatre. Regionally, she has starred since the Witch in Into the Woods; Mazeppa in Gypsy; Pattie Mae in Household, the Audio; LaLa in the Colored Museum; Josephine Baker in Lucky inside Rain; Miss Monisha in Tin Pan Alley Rag; and Muzzie in Thoroughly Current Millie. Cheryl has starred as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls in Berlin, Germany, and as Josephine Baker in Josephine: The Audio, which toured all over Europe, winning her a Golden Heart Award for Best Actress in a very Audio and Greatest Audio. She has taught Audio Theatre Workshops on the Stages Performing Arts Academy in St. Louis, MO and holds a B.A. in theatre arts from Rutgers University and a Masters degree in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis.

The Sensational Josephine Baker was presented as a examining in EAT's A single Woman Standing series last season. The Off-Broadway premiere manufacturing attributes costumes by Nicole Wee, lighting by G. Ben Swope, set by Tim McMath, music by Peter Saxe, sound by Aaron Blank and visual projections by David Bengali.

Founded in 1993, the mission of EMERGING Performers THEATRE is to offer a dynamic house for emerging writers and artists, to produce their deliver the results from an concept to a fully realized manufacturing. In the past 18 many years, Take in has premiered over 300 new performs, garnered a Drama Desk Award nomination for Capathia Jenkins in (Mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Tale, received the American Theatre Wing Award for Consistent Excellence in Theatre, and was named Best Off-Off-Broadway Theater Business in NYC for Actors to Deliver the results With by Back Stage. Through its 2010- 2011 period, under the Artistic Direction of Paul Adams, Eat will showcase more than two dozen new works.