Connecting with a major topic in her 1woman show Death of the Diva Amanda Seales interviews women on why negative images of women on Reality TV has been so successful.
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Meet Sh’aandreekah Jones one of the hilarious characters in Amanda Seales’s one-woman musical narrative “Death of the Diva” a show that challenges pop culture’s portrayal of women.
For Tickets and/or Donations visit:
www.DeathoftheDiva.com
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“Death of the Diva” opens in NYC on March 23rd at the Helen Mills Theater (www.HelenMills.com)! Between now and then we are looking to raise funds via our Indiegogo campaign (http://igg.me/p/56238?a=351921) as well as sell tickets (http://deathofthediva.ticketbud.com/deathofthediva). We are looking for people to help increase the awareness through their social media networks (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.)
We will periodically send you text/links/embeds that you can post to your social networks to help make this wonderful show, dedicated to changing the overwhelming amount of negative images of women in entertainment, a success!
This is a grass roots project that is with your help can become a full scale production and tour the nation and the world. We hope you will join our team in spreading the word about this great show by a great artist.
If interested please email us at DEATHOFTHEDIVA@GMAIL.COM
We look forward to hearing from you!
Today In History
‘Angela Davis, author, activist, and professor was born in Birmingham, AL, on this date January 26, 1944.’
(photo: Angela Davis)
- CARTER Magazine
TimeoutNY’s Top 25 Broadway Divas of All Time!
http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/2542977/broadways-25-all-time-greatest-divas??cmpid=TONY012612
Patty Lupone, Bernadette Peters, and of course, my fave of all time, the great incomparable Audra McDonald all made the list! Check out who else ranks as one of most illustrious divas to grace the stages of the great white way!!!!!!!!
The Washington Post did a survey of Black women in American and how they view themselves. Being that Death of the Diva explores the images that are being put out I thought this was an interesting article on how many Black women specifically feel inwardly of their own image.
Death of the Diva hits the NYC stage! The Helen Mills Theater (137-139 W. 26th st) will serve as the play’s first NYC home from March 23-25 and 30-April 1! Come laugh, think, and groove with Amanda Seales as she morphs through characters to tell her story on how greed, celebrity, & reality tv are “manslaughtering” the women, girls, and divas of America. Click the link and get your tickets to this amazing, hilarious, ground-breaking show!!!
Pics from “Death of the Diva” 1st Preview
Check out some pics from Wednesday’s first Preview! It went down at The Playroom Theater in NYC. We had a packed house of investors and influencers! Also we were lucky enough to have make-up provided by DexNewYork, liquor for the reception provided by Or-G Liqueur, and we also added a three-piece band! The vibes were there and the show was Awesome!!
MC Checkahoe cradles his baby daughter
O. Diva sings about her humble beginnings before greatness
Taylor Great speaks on what America wants to watch on TV
Shandreika Jones shows how she been practicin’ to walk pretty
Director Roger C. Jeffrey, The Band (Corey Bernhard/ Keys, Dwayne “DW” Wright/ Bass, Jermaine Parrish/Drums) and Me with our Or-G liquor!
Thanks again Or-G! As Taylor Great would say, “The drink tastes FANTASSS and the bottles are AMAZE!”
