GREAT PERFORMANCES: BLACK AND BLUE (TV)
Summary
One in this series on the performing arts. In this program, director Robert Altman takes a look at the 1989 Broadway musical revue "Black and Blue" from in front of the stage and behind the scenes. During this program, performers are shown talking about the show backstage as well as commenting on how they feel as they exit the stage. This celebration of the black art forms of jazz, blues, and tap showcases the phenominal dancing of tap masters and the vocal artistry of legendary blues singers in performances of the following songs, among others: "After You've Gone"; "I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man; "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues"; "Ain't Nobody's Business"; "Stormy Monday Blues"; "I'm All for You"; "Body and Soul"; "Am I Blue"; "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby"; and "What Did I Do to be So Black and Blue?" Featured performers, among others, include: blues singers Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins, and Carrie Smith; and "hoofers" Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney, George Hillman, Bernard Manners, Jimmy Slyde, and Dianne Walker. Ingenious use of sets and costumes enable this revue to capture the era of the music used.
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Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
- DATE: February 17, 1993 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:57:51
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:27992
- GENRE: Dance; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Dance; Jazz; Music, popular (songs, etc.); Tap dancing
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1974-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Mel Howard … Executive Producer, Producer, For the Stage
- Norman Rothstein … Executive Producer
- Jac Venza … Executive Producer, For "Great Performances"
- David Horn … Producer, Series Producer, For "Great Performances"
- John Walker … Coordinating Producer
- Scott Bushnell … Supervising Producer
- Donald K. Donald … Producer, For the Stage
- Mitchie Takeuchi … Associate Producer
- Julie Crosby … Associate Producer
- Marilynn Levine … Associate Producer, For the "Black and Blue" company
- Robert Altman … Director
- Claudio Segovia … Created by, Director , For the Stage
- Hector Orezzoli … Created by, Director , For the Stage
- Leonard Oxley … Conductor
- Maurice Jarre … Theme Music by, For "Great Performances"
- Sy Johnson … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Arrangements and Orchestrations by
- Luther Henderson … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Arrangements and Orchestrations by
- Cholly Atkins … Choreographer
- Henry LeTang … Choreographer
- Frankie Manning … Choreographer
- Fayard Nicholas … Choreographer
- Billy Butler … Instrumentalist
- Gayle Dixon … Instrumentalist
- Bill Easley … Instrumentalist
- Stephen Furtado … Instrumentalist
- Sir Roland Hanna … Instrumentalist
- Haywood Henry … Instrumentalist
- Virgil Jones … Instrumentalist
- Al McKibbon … Instrumentalist
- Jerome Richardson … Instrumentalist
- Grady Tate … Instrumentalist
- Emery Thompson … Instrumentalist
- Britt Woodman … Instrumentalist
- Ruth Brown … Singer
- Linda Hopkins … Singer
- Carrie Smith … Singer
- Bunny Briggs … Dancer, Hoofer
- Lon Chaney … Dancer, Hoofer
- George Hillman … Dancer, Hoofer
- Bernard Manners … Dancer, Hoofer
- Jimmy Slyde … Dancer, Hoofer
- Dianne Walker … Dancer, Hoofer
- Frederick J. Boothe … Dancer
- Michael Clory … Dancer
- Eugene Fleming … Dancer
- Tanya Gibson … Dancer
- Cyd Glover … Dancer
- Germaine Goodson … Dancer
- Angela Hall … Dancer
- Dexter Jones … Dancer
- Kyme … Dancer
- Valerie Macklin … Dancer
- Deborah Mitchell … Dancer
- Greg Poland … Dancer
- Van Porter … Dancer
- Michelle M. Robinson … Dancer
- Valerie E. Smith … Dancer
- Dormeshia Sumbry … Dancer
- Keith Thomas … Dancer
- Melvin Washington … Dancer
- Tarik Winston … Dancer