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UPDATE: Click for ALT review, February 11
Found on line; poster received directly:
The Renaissance Guild, San Antonio, presents
August Wilson's
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
February 5-21, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 4 p.m.
Little Carver Civic Center, 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio, 78202
Click here for directions or call the Center at (210) 207-2234
Tickets are $21 at Ticketmaster on-line or at (800) 745-3000
In a Chicago based recording studio, Ma Rainey's band players, Cutler, Toledo, Slow Drag, and Levee turn up to record a new album of her songs. As they wait for her to arrive they banter, tell stories, joke, philosophize and argue. As the play unfolds it becomes clear that the tension is between the young hot-headed trumpeter Levee who has dreams of having his own band and veteran players Cutler and Toledo.
By the time Ma Rainey does turn up in full regalia and entourage in tow the recording schedule is badly behind, throwing the white producers Sturdyvant and Irvin into more and more irate disarray. Ma's insistence that her stuttering nephew Sylvester should do the voice intro to the title song causes more havoc.
 As the band waits for various technical problems to be resolved the conflict between Levee and Cutler reaches a boiling point.
Cast
Ma Rainey~Tamara Cline-Russell, Levee~Arthur Bouier, Cutler~Michael Gray, Toledo~Kevin Majors, Slow Drag~Charles Riley, Dussie Mae~Angela Steen, Sylvester~Clifford Ross, Sturdyvant ~David Clingan, Irvin~Steven Valdez, Policeman~Gene Hildabrand
Understudies~Gene Hildabrand, Shaundra Lamkin and deAnna K. Navarro
Crew
Antoinette Winstead, Mark Denison, Cindy Rodriguez,
Gladys Karina Carielo, Hector Machado, Martin Sanchez,
Rigel Nunez, Jesse Arenas, Scharlette Donald, Rose Espinoza, Ron Abrams, Danielle King and Paul Riddle Jr.
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