Who is Eartha Mae? Created by & starring Jade Wheeler The sharp-witted, glamorous, incomparable Eartha Kitt commands the spotlight. But backstage in her dressing room, in the quiet between songs, she peels back the glitz to reveal Eartha Mae: a girl from the South Carolina cotton fields, orphaned by her mother until an audience adopted her. Told through both story and song, Urbanite Theatre’s first-ever musical production unearths the complex truth behind the icon: “I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.” Presented as a one-woman act, playwright and performer Jade Wheeler brings to life a powerful woman in search of happiness and the roots she never forgets.
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All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
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New Works Play Lab
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Fleetwood Max: the Definitive Fleetwood Mac Tribute
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Snow White
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Rent
The Sarasota Players (12/3 - 12/14) | |
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Paddy O'Furniture
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The Crucible
The Sarasota Players (3/25 - 4/5) | |
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Who is Eartha Mae?
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Program Seven – Foundations of Royalty
Sarasota Opera House (5/1 - 5/2) | |
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