Photo Flash: Clarke Peters and More Attend Arena Stage's FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE Opening
Come and dance the blues away with Five Guys Named Moe! Helen Hayes Award winner Robert O'Hara (Bootcandy, director of The Mountaintop at Arena Stage) returns to Arena Stage to direct an explosive, reimagined tribute to the "King of the Jukebox"-legendary composer and saxophonist Louis Jordan. A co-production with Cleveland Play House, the show opened last night, November 20, in the Kreeger Theater and continues through December 28, 2014.
Below, BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivities, featuring book writer Clarke Peters!
This modernized production features new orchestrations for classic songs, including "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," and a contemporary twist on the five Moes, now a hit boy band set in 2014. This dynamic musical revue features musical direction by Darryl G. Ivey (assistant music director for original Broadway production of Five Guys Named Moe) and choreography by Byron Easley (off-Broadway's Langston in Harlem).
The cast features Sheldon Henry (South Pacific national tour) as Big Moe, Kevin McAllister (Ford's Theatre's Violet) as Nomax, Paris Nix (Seussical national tour) as Eat Moe, Jobari Parker-Namdar (Arena Stage's My Fair Lady) as No Moe, Travis Porchia (Drury Lane Theatre's Hairspray) as Four-Eyed Moe and Clinton Roane (Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys) as Little Moe.
Photos courtesy Arena Stage.
Director of Artistic Programming Robert Barry Fleming, book writer Clarke Peters and Penny Peters
Artistic Director Molly Smith, director Robert O’Hara and Music Director Darryl G. Ivey
Cast members Kevin McAllister, Jobari Parker-Namdar, Sheldon Henry, Paris Nix, Travis Porchia and Clinton Roane
Artistic Director Molly Smith, director Robert O'Hara, book writer Clarke Peters and Penny Peters
Executive Producer Edgar Dobie and board chair Beth Newburger Schwartz
Book writer Clarke Peters addresses guests
Cast members Travis Porchia and Paris Nix
Cast members Sheldon Henry and Clinton Roane
Musical director Darryl G. Ivey and cast member Jobari Parker-Namdar
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