George Brant’s musical play about singers Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight is enjoying a spine-tingling production at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth.
George Brant’s musical play about singers Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight is enjoying a spine-tingling production.
Denise Lee, left, and Denise Jackson star in playwright George Brant's "Marie and Rosetta" at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth.Students of American popular music know Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer and guitar player who influenced rock stars like Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix. Marie Knight, with whom Tharpe toured as a duo starting in 1946, is less familiar.
Denise Lee, left, and Denise Jackson star in playwright George Brant's "Marie and Rosetta" at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth.Early on, the play establishes Tharpe’s place in the firmament. She’s already a star, equally at home in churches and nightclubs. But the more pious singer Mahalia Jackson — who’s invoked so often she’s a third unseen character — is snapping at her heels.
Looking to change things up, Tharpe has recruited Knight after being impressed by her performance as part of a singing group opening for Jackson.signaled part of what the pair will face with its setting: A funeral home showroom holding a couple of coffins along with a piano, guitar, amp and suitcases, handsomely designed by Curtis C. Trout.This is where they’re staying in Mississippi on the eve of the launch of their tour.
That would have been enough. But the playwright adds a supernatural twist near the end that helps the characters and the audience peek into the future, creating even more satisfaction on both sides of the fourth wall.Joseph Vitale's one-man show "Murrow" is being produced in Dallas as part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Elevator Project series.
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