Jubilee Theatre Announces Their 2010-2011 Season

Jubilee Theatre's Board of Trustees with Artistic Director Ed Smith and Managing Director Benjamin Espino are pleased to announce a year of special productions to celebrate the company's 30th Anniversary season. The season will be made up of productions from the past, present, and a look to the company's future. The 2010-2011 season includes six productions: three musicals and three plays as well as the company's Music and Reading Series and a continued joint venture with the Fort Worth ISD.

Celebrations around Fort Worth are planned including a block party, a documentary film, and Jubilee¹s annual birthday party.

The main stage season opens with the Tony-Award winning play by Samm-Art Williams, Home. The season continues during the holidays with a production of a Jubilee classic, God¹s Trombones, based on the sermon poems of James Weldon Johnson with book by the late Jubilee Theatre founder Rudy Eastman and music and lyrics by the late Douglas Balentine. To kick off the
new year and celebrate African-American history month, Jubilee will open local playwright Shay Youngblood's Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery. The spring production will be The African Company Presents Richard III by Carlyle Brown. The early summer production will be a newly styled Alice
Wonder originally written by Rudy Eastman with Music and Lyrics by Joe Rogers. Jubilee will close out their anniversary season with a production to be chosen by its new Artistic Director during the Spring of 2011.

Jubilee Theatre's 30th Anniversary season continues the organization's mission of creating and producing theatrical works that reflect the African-American experience with a look forward to the company's future as the cultural gem of Fort Worth. Season tickets will go on sale July 14 and can be purchased by calling the Jubilee Theatre Ticket Office at 817-338-4411 or online at www.jubileetheatre.org. Season tickets can be purchased to include 4 or 6 performance packages and reflect up to a 17% discount from the listed single ticket price. Single ticket sales will begin for the first production of the season, Home, on September 15. For additional information, please visit http://www.jubileetheatre.org> .

Jubilee Theatre¹s 2010-2011 Season

Home
By Samm-Art Williams
Previews: October 1, 2, 3, and 7
Opens: October 8
Runs: October 8 October 31
Produced to great acclaim by the Negro Ensemble Company, and then
transferred to Broadway, this brilliantly inventive, lyrically expressive
play deals joyfully with the coming of age of a young black man from rural
South Carolina. Home will be the third Samm Art-Williams play to be produced
at Jubilee Theatre. Its poignant story of the African-American experience in
the United States will touch you to your soul.

God¹s Trombones
Based on the sermon poems by James Weldon Johnson
Book by Rudy Eastman
Music and Lyrics by Douglas Balentine
Previews: November 19, 20, and 21
Opens: November 27
Runs: November 27 - December 26
NO PERFORMANCES: December 24 and 25
Continuing the 30th Anniversary season is the timeless classic by the late
founder Rudy Eastman and late composer Douglas Balentine based on the Negro
sermon poems by James Weldon Johnson. It has become a staple at Jubilee.
This holiday musical returns to the Jubilee stage for the first time in
several years with the original music audiences have grown to love. God¹s
Trombones is a musical celebration that will lift your spirits and rock your
soul.

Shakin¹ the Mess Outta Misery
By Shay Youngblood
Previews: January 21, 22, 23, and 27
Opening: January 28
Run: January 28 February 20
Shakin¹ the Mess Outta Misery is the story of a young black girl¹s coming of
age in the South in the 1960s. Daughter, the main character and the 25-year
old narrator, was raised by women in the community, some blood related, some
not. She shares with the audience how these women prepare her for womanhood.
Youngblood¹s poetic language in each scene will bring to life Daughter¹s
experiences.

The African Company Presents Richard III
By Carlyle Brown
Previews: March 25, 26, 27 and 31
Opening: April 1
Run: April 1 April 25
In 1821, forty years before Lincoln ended slavery, and fifty years before
African-Americans earned the right to vote, the first black theatrical group
in the country, the African Company of New York, was putting on plays in a
downtown Manhattan theatre to which both black and white audiences flocked.
Yet the drama of this progressive group reached further than their stage
touching on historical and socio-economic conditions of African-Americans
beginning to create a community in New York and the United States.

Alice Wonder
Book by Rudy Eastman
Music and Lyrics by Joe Rogers
Directed by Joe Rogers
Previews: May 20, 21, 22, 26
Opens: May 27
Runs: May 27 - June 19
Alice Wonder, the Eastman and Rogers hit from 2002, returns as part of the
30th Anniversary Celebration. Starring Sheran Goodspeed Keyton as Alice
Wonder and Robert Rouse as Cat Daddy, this Jubilee version of Lewis
Carroll¹s Alice in Wonderland will have you rollicking with laughter in your
seat. Relive and revisit all the great character of this classic Eastman and
Rogers musical: from Sister Dukes to Rasta Blue to the Notorious Hump D to
the incomparable Queen of Hearts and She Dee Dee and She Day Day. This is
the Eastman and Rogers musical you have been waiting to see againŠand again.

Final Production To Be Announced
Previews: July 22, 23, 24, and 28
Opens: July 29
Runs: July 29 - August 21
This production will be chosen by Jubilee¹s new Artistic Director in the
Spring of 2011.

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