Negro Ensemble Company program for "Boogie Woogie and Booker T": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An off-white paper program for “Boogie Woogie and Booker T”.

The four-sided program features large and small black type, and discusses the cast, staff, and other production details of the play by Wesley Brown. On the front of the program, from top to bottom, is: [HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT’S / NEW FEDERAL THEATRE / WOODIE KING, JR., PRODUCER / Presents / BOOGIE WOOGIE / AND BOOKER T / BY / WESLEY BROWN / Set Design / CHARLES H. McCLENNAHAN / Costumes / JUDY DEARING / Lighting Design / VICTOR EN YU TAN / Sound Design / JACQUI CASTO / Musical Director / JOHN McCALLUM / Production Stage Manager / JESSE WOODEN JR. / DIRECTED BY / A. DEAN IRBY / Premiere Thursday, February 12, 1987 / FOR HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT / Executive Director / Daniel Kronenfeld / Director, Arts for Living Center / Barbara Tate / This production is made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the / Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the / Shubert Foundation and private donations. / Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center / 466 Grand Street, New York, New York 10002 / (212) 598-0400.].

On the inside halves of the program, the cast and play acts are listed alongside a typical program inclusion of small cast biographies [WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST].

On the back of the program are continued biographies; a list of staff and New Federal Theatre Board of Directors; credits and acknowledgements; a warning about photography, and a fire notice.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1987
• Published by: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967
• Subject of: LaTanya Richardson Jackson, American, born 1949
• Subject of: Charles Dumas, American
• Subject of: John McCallum, Australian, 1918 - 2010
• Subject of: Ruben S. Hudson, American, born 1956
• Subject of: Cortez Nance Jr., American
• Subject of: Marie Thomas
• Directed by: Dean Irby, American
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper with metal
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 9 × 6 1/16 × 1/16 in. (22.9 × 15.4 × 0.2 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Theatre
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Object number: 2014.196.21
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Sandra Austin
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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