Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology at The Mark Theatre
Dates: 4/18/2025 - 4/20/2025
Inner City Cultural Center II
5144 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood,CA
Phone: 818.714.4242
Tickets: $40 - $100
New Play
Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology delves deep into Scott-Heron's artistic genius, highlighting his innovative fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken word. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology shares the life and music of the man Melody Maker called "The Most Dangerous Musician Alive" and many dubbed the forefather of rap music. Created by Tuesday Conner and Directed by Phylliss Bailey Brooks, Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology is an extraordinary theatrical experience with a fierce band of spoken word artists and musicians spittin’ fire and blazin’ stages with the legends daughter, Gia Scott-Heron and Special Guests Artists Father Amde Hamilton of The Watts Prophets with Victor Orlando of The Gap Band on percussion. Gil Scott-Heron (1949 – 2011) was a civil rights activist, musician and author known throughout the world for his work. His gift of taking the daily news and turning it into social satire filled with truth, and attaching rhythms that were in themselves thought-provoking was part of his genius. Gil professed to be a "BLUESOLOGIST" because his music was jazz and blues and his spoken word reflects the turbulence and uncertainty of our times with a satirical edge told in the tradition of oral poetry and storytelling. Gil Scott-Heron was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a recipient of the Early Influence Award and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology encompasses his creativity from 1970 to 2010. Woven between the timeless words of Gil Scott-Heron, these electrifying poets, Tuesday Conner, Yawo Watts, The Oracle, Lorenzo Frank, Artus Mansoir, Conney Williams and Gia Scott-Heron weave their own personal poetic journeys into the story and ignite a rip roaring fire. You'll hear his words again, you'll cry and you'll laugh and your heart light will glow, you'll fight back some tears, you'll sing, you'll know lyrics you haven't heard in a long while and you'll learn about the man...the icon, the legend, Gil Scott-Heron.
Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology at The Mark Theatre Schedule
Parking Lot: 5200 Lankershim Blvd.
Cast and Creative team for Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology at The Mark Theatre
Cast
Gia Scott-Heron
Self
Daughter of Gil Scott-Heron and Brenda Sykes.
Tuesday Conner
Self
International Awarding Winner Filmmaker and Playwright
Conney Wiliams
Self
Retired Artistic Director at The World Stage & World Stage Press
Yawo Watts
Self
Founder of the Erotic Poetry Event "Oralgasm"
Lorenzo Frank
Self
Host of SWAAM - Spoken Word Art and Music
The ORACLE
Self
Award Winning Poet Denise Lyles-Cook
Artus Mansoir
Self
Multitalented Musican and Poet
Victor Orlando
Self
Percussionist for The Gap Band
Lynne Conner
Producer
Lynne (Actor, Director, Producer, Filmmaker) hot off a New York run off-Broadway with Award-Winning Play GIL SCOTT-HERON BLUESOLOGY which Lynne produced and developed from vision to stage with her sister Tuesday Conner & directed the Los Angeles version winning the coveted Hollywood Fringe International Encore Series Award. Next, Lynne is directing feature film FROZEN ASSETS (Cherae Walton). Lynne can be seen in BET+ YOUNG, WILD, FREE (Thembi Banks), KINGS OF L.A. (Van Elder), COUNTED (#Winner 2024 Best Supporting Actress-168 Film Festival), & SNOOZE AIR (JoAnna Rhambo). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center Lynne produced multiple shorts including RAISING KINGS, YOUNG & NAIVE (Tuesday Conner), THE DRAGONFLY TALE (Lorey Hayes). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center some theatre credits include THE BOW WOW CLUB (Levy Lee), BONES OF LESSER MEN (L. Flint Esquerra), NOSTALGIA & DREAMS (Kerrie Keane), CHICAGO CLUB RUMBOOGIE (Jerry Jones-Dolemite), PASSING & JOLETA by Towne Street Theatre, and TRIBES (George C. Wolfe). www.LynneConner.com.
conney d williams aka Mr. Beautiful
conney d williams
Conney D. Williams is a poet, actor, community activist, and performance artist with three collections of poetry “The Distance of Observation (2021) “Leaves of Spilled Spirit from an Untamed Poet (2002)” and “Blues Red Soul Falsetto (2012).” In 2015, he released two critically acclaimed cds of his poetry accompanied by music titled: “River&Moan and Unsettled Water.” He is the former Artistic Director at the World Stage and Coordinator for the Anansi Writers Workshop; he’s also the cofounder of World Stage Press. His poems have also been published in various anthologies & journals including Dryland Review, Voices from Leimert, Cultural Weekly, Drumming Between Us, Askew Poetry Journal, Wide Awake Anthology, and Poets & Allies Anthology. He has performed his poetry on television, radio, universities & colleges, and various venues across the U.S.
Email: dredcon@gmail.com
Facebook: Conney Williams
Instagram: dredconney
Twitter: @Dredcon
Tuesday Conner
Self
Costume Designer by Trade, Writer at Heart, Tuesday steps out on a limb and directs her first short film “Young & Na!ve”. Immediately Tuesday becomes an International Award Winning Writer and Filmmaker. Her intensity as a Fashion Designer catches on fire as a Writer. Founder of Poet’s Jazz House and Inner City Cultural Center II. Since the age of seventeen at the Foxx Follies theatre Tuesday has been producing and providing artists a space to learn and grow and a place to perform and sell their art.
This freelance multimedia powerhouse producer's creative vision has a long track record of successfully guiding a wide variety of projects from development to completion; from Award Shows to Fashion Shows, Films and an upcoming documentary series to Gil Scott-Heron's tribute at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City for an Off-Broadway run celebrating Black History Month.
Tuesday was privileged to costume Broadway shows, Film, Recording Artist, Television and Tours around the world; from Mr T. to Eric Roberts and Chaka…Chaka Khan. Tuesday produced one of the hottest comedy clubs in The Valley and one of the coolest poetry lounges in the country, says CBS and BackstageWest. Tuesday Conner is a Young Saint, a proud prodigy of Operation Bootstrap, C.E.T.A. and Cliff Roquemore and she’s an Inner City Cultural Center Alumnus.
Lynne Conner
Producer
Lynne (Actor, Director, Producer, Filmmaker) hot off a New York run off-Broadway with Award-Winning Play GIL SCOTT-HERON BLUESOLOGY which Lynne produced and developed from vision to stage with her sister Tuesday Conner & directed the Los Angeles version winning the coveted Hollywood Fringe International Encore Series Award. Next, Lynne is directing feature film FROZEN ASSETS (Cherae Walton). Lynne can be seen in BET+ YOUNG, WILD, FREE (Thembi Banks), KINGS OF L.A. (Van Elder), COUNTED (#Winner 2024 Best Supporting Actress-168 Film Festival), & SNOOZE AIR (JoAnna Rhambo). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center Lynne produced multiple shorts including RAISING KINGS, YOUNG & NAIVE (Tuesday Conner), THE DRAGONFLY TALE (Lorey Hayes). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center some theatre credits include THE BOW WOW CLUB (Levy Lee), BONES OF LESSER MEN (L. Flint Esquerra), NOSTALGIA & DREAMS (Kerrie Keane), CHICAGO CLUB RUMBOOGIE (Jerry Jones-Dolemite), PASSING & JOLETA by Towne Street Theatre, and TRIBES (George C. Wolfe). www.LynneConner.com.
Victor Orlando
Special Guest Opening Act
Victor Orlando, Percussionist 2 The Stars. Body of Work Includes: Gap Band, Chaka Khan, Bobby Womack, L L Cool J, Switch, Angie Stone, Shanice, Billy Preston, Buddy Miles and More. Born in Dallas, Texas, moved to Los Angeles in the Late 70’s, and started playing and Touring. Later in the 80’s started performing on Albums and Videos. Along with Music, Victor Orlando has been acting for over 30 years, in T.V., Movies, Sitcoms, from Extra to Primary Roles. Musically, Victor Orlando has a Submitted for Grammy Award Nomination CD, (on, Victororlando.com). A Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House and President Biden. Currently Victor Orlando is working on a new Album of Afro Latin Jazz, due out in the fall of 2025. Along with starting a Victor Orlando HOPE Foundation for Prostate Cancer Testing for Uninsured Musicians, and Voice Over Reading of a Book for A Well Know Artist, Talks of a New Comedy Movie, Victor Orlando is Thanking God for All Of The Blessings Coming his Way.
Victor Orlando
Percussionist
Percussionist from the Gap Band, Chaka Khan, Billy Preston, Switch, Buddy Miles, Yarbrough & Peoples, and many more.
Creative Team
Tuesday Conner
Writer | Executive Producer
International Award Winning Filmmaker, Writer and Producer
Lynne Conner
Producer
International Award Winning Filmmaker, Director and Producer
Phylliss Bailey Brooks
Director
A teaching artist for Dream A World, Inc. and for over 30 years she has been able to work on-set with some of tv’s most renowned producers, directors, writers, and the most talented crews in the industry.
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