On this edition of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle previews the GSP production of My Lord, What a Night.
The play, written by Deborah Brevoort and directed by Sheldon Epps, runs through May 17 at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
My Lord, What a Night is inspired by true events and begins in 1937 when acclaimed opera singer Marian Anderson is turned away from a hotel due to her race and is taken in for the night by acclaimed physicist Albert Einstein. The evening eventually leads to Anderson’s historic performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial two years later and sparks a friendship that lasts nearly 20 years until Einstein’s death in 1955.
The cast includes:
Broadway veteran Rashidra Scott (Sunset Boulevard, Company) as opera singer Marian Anderson
Actor and composer Anthony Cochrane (“The Good Fight”) as physicist Albert Einstein
Veteran actor Mitch Greenberg (November 4) as educator Abraham Flexner
and award-winning actress Gayle Samuels (Chiaroscuro) as civil right activist and women’s suffragist and educator Mary Church Terrell.
You can SEE Doug Doyle's entire interview with Rashidra Scott, Anthony Cochrane, Mitch Greenberg and Gayle Samuels below:
