Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with the Cast of PARADISE BLUE Featuring Kristolyn Lloyd and More
By: Julie Musbach Apr. 05, 2018
Paradise Blue runs April 24 - June 3, 2018 with a Monday, May 14 opening night in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). Go inside the rehearsal process with the new photos below!
In 1949, Detroit's Blackbottom neighborhood is gentrifying. Blue, a troubled trumpeter and the owner of Paradise Club, is torn between remaining in Blackbottom with his loyal lover Pumpkin and leaving behind a traumatic past. But when the arrival of a mysterious woman stirs up tensions, the fate of Paradise Club hangs in the balance. Paradise Blue is a thrilling and timely look at the changes a community endures to find its resilience.
The cast includes Obie Award-winner Francois Battiste (Head of Passes, "Ten Days in the Valley"), Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen, The Liquid Plain), Simone Missick ("Luke Cage"), J. Alphonse Nicholson ("Tales," "Luke Cage"), Keith Randolph Smith (Malcolm X, Jitney).
Photo Credit: Gregory Costanzo
Kristolyn Lloyd & Simone Missick
Francois Battiste & Harold Wolpert (Executive Director of Signature Theatre)
Dominique Morisseau (Playwright)
Dominique Morisseau (Playwright) & Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director)
Set Model by Neil Patel
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director
Simone Missick, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Kristolyn Lloyd, Keith Randolph Smith, & Francois Battiste
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Director), Simone Missick, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Kristolyn Lloyd, Keith Randolph Smith, Dominique Morisseau (Playwright) & Francois Battiste
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