Photo Flash: First Look at MARRIED BUT SINGLE TOO at Music Hall Center

Married But Single Too, the hit stage play follow up to Married But Single, by Je'Caryous Johnson is currently in Detroit until February 19th at Music Hall Center. The BroadwayWorld Detroit readers get a first glimpse inside the show!

The star studded cast includes Bill Bellamy, LisaRaye McCoy, Carl Anthony Payne, Chante Moore, Ginuwine, La'Myia Good, Terrell Carter, and Skye Griffin. For anyone wondering if they need to see the first play before the the sequel, the cast guarantees that is not an issue:

LisaRaye McCoy: No, not at all. We pick up where we left off, but we can give you a little bit or Mr. Johnson can give you the first half.

Je'Caryous: No, you don't need to have seen the first one. We certainly kept that in mind that the piece has to stand alone. As you are watching it, you'll get an understanding of what happened in the first one, but this piece is really about issues. I just recently got married, and as a newly married person, you realize there are different perspectives in life than when you were single and the things that you experienced as a single individual, and now you have to walk through life with someone else. One of the things is you are two individuals with your own separate lives, your own separate everything and are kind of thrust together to become one and things are supposed to be perfect; and that's really kind of an impossibility unless one person really kind of negates who they were and just now conforms to who someone else wants you to be, but that's not marriage. Marriage is, it's not a give and take, it's not a sacrifice and a compromise, because therein lies the toxicity in marriage is the concept of giving and taking and sacrificing and compromise. But what it is, is developing an acquired desire to want to do something for someone else and that becomes the impulse. Not out of resistance, but out of love, I want to do this for you. As long as I want to do that for you, life is easy and love can flow, but the moment that you ask me to do something and I don't have that desire to do it, friction comes in. That friction is a thing that contaminates that marital process and the fact of you coming together as one. We deal with issues of singleness because married people want to be single and single people want to be married. We all are looking at each other's situation and saying the grass is greener on the other side, but at the end of the day, everything's has weeds in it. But if you don't pluck the weeds and put the right fertilizer on whatever your situation is, it can't grow to be something beautiful anyway. I like to say instead of talking about what the play is specifically about, we address the issues that are going to resonate with everyone that sees it.

Carl Anthony Payne: I think this interview is over. That's it right there. (Everyone laughs)

LisaRaye: End of quote.

Bill Bellamy: I just dropped the mic.

Carl: I just appreciate you using SAT words. You know what I'm saying. That was good. Toxicity. I like that.

Bill: I didn't understand none of it. (laughter)

For more with the cast of Married But Single Too, click here.

Married But Single Too is currently running until February 19th at Music Hall Center in Detroit. For more information or tickets, visit www.jecaryous.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

Photo Credit: Stan Barough / It Is Done Communications

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