Word: kittiwah
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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However romanticized its view of a Harlem that never quite existed, Queenie Pie rings with authority. There are perhaps unconscious echoes of Porgy and Bess in characters and settings; almost the whole second act takes place on a kind of Kittiwah Island. But instead of Gershwin's "lampblack Negroisms," as Ellington aptly called them, Queenie Pie has the authentic sass and soul of black America. This is what really happened to Bess after she left Catfish Row. Following its three-week run in Philadelphia, Queenie Pie moves to Washington's Kennedy Center for a month. After that, there ought...
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