In the Life: "A Cabaret with André De Shields"

In the Life footage of "A Cabaret with André De Shields," presented at the Museum of the City of New York.  Date: September 14, 2003.

Notes from the original program:

"The Museum of the City of New York celebrates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Culture and History

A Cabaret with André De Shields

With a little sugar in their shoes;
a little Pink in their Blues;
with liberation in their heads and revolution in their beds these are the Black Beauties that created the White Heat known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Spend an evening of song, dance and spoken word with the In Crows whose expansive attitude crossed both the color and gender line. Conceived and directed by award winning actor, director, and educator, André De Shields (The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Play On! and The Full Monty); musical direction by David Lewis.

Program: "Drop Me Off In Harlem/Take The 'A' Train" (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn) from the original Broadway Cast Recording of Play On! - "Let the Good Times Roll" (Sam Theard & Fleecie Moore) performed by André De Shields, Freida Williams, Marléne Danielle & Joel Silberman - "Minnie The Moocher’" (Cab Calloway & Irving Mills) performed by Denise Andersen and David Lewis - "Buffet Flat" (Ruby Smith & Chris Albertson) - "Kitchen Man" (Andy Razaf & Alex Belledna) performed by Mary Bond Davis and Terry Waldo - "Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage" (Thomas Fats Waller & Andy Razaf) performed by B.J. Crosby and Terry Waldo - "Prove It On Me Blues" (Gertrude Ma Rainey) performed by B.J. Crosby and Terry Waldo - "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) performed by Marcus Simeone and David Lewis - "Harlem Nocturne" (Dick Rogers & Earle Hagen) performed by David Lewis - The Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Step Dance performed by Karen Callaway Williams to the strains of "J’ai Deux Amours" (Vincent Scotto, Géo Koger & Henri Varna) performed by Kimberly 'Q' and Dee Dixon - "The Lady With The Fan" (Cab Calloway, Jeanne Burns & Al Brackman) performed by Denise Andersen, David Lewis, Russell Warfield & the Cab Calloway Orchestra Tribute to Florence Mills performed by Ken Roberson - "Strange Fruit" (Lewis Allan) performed by Denise Andersen and David Lewis - "His(Blues)tory" (André De Shields) performed by André De Shields and Joel Silberman - "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson) performed by Company"

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