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Newark, New Jersey
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Newark is the most populous city in the U. S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County. For 2015, the Census Bureaus Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 281,944, Newark is the second largest city in the New York metropolitan area, located approximately 8 miles west of lower Manhattan. Settled in 1666 by Puritans from New Haven Colony, Newark is one of the oldest European cities in the United States and its location at the mouth of the Passaic River, has made the citys waterfront an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Today, Port Newark-Elizabeth is the container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the American East Coast. In addition, Newark Liberty International Airport was the first municipal airport in the United States. Several leading companies have their headquarters in Newark, including Prudential, PSEG, Panasonic Corporation of North America, Audible. com, IDT Corporation, the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey sits in the city as well. Local cultural venues include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Symphony Hall, The Prudential Center and the Newark Museum. Newark is divided into five wards, the East, West, South, North and Central wards. Newarks Branch Brook Park is the oldest county park in the United States and is home to the nations largest collection of cherry blossom trees, Newark was settled in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat from the New Haven Colony. It was conceived as an assembly of the faithful, though this did not last for long as new settlers came with different ideas. On October 31,1693 it was organized as a New Jersey township based on the Newark Tract, Newark was granted a Royal charter on April 27,1713. It was incorporated on February 21,1798 by the New Jersey Legislatures Township Act of 1798, during its time as a township, portions were taken to form Springfield Township, Caldwell Township, Orange Township, Bloomfield Township and Clinton Township. Newark was reincorporated as a city on April 11,1836, replacing Newark Township, the previously independent Vailsburg borough was annexed by Newark on January 1,1905. In 1926, South Orange Township changed its name to Maplewood, as a result of this, a portion of Maplewood known as Ivy Hill was re-annexed to Newarks Vailsburg. During the American Revolutionary War British troops made several raids into the town, the city has experienced revitalization since the 1990s. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had an area of 26.107 square miles. It has the third-smallest land area among the 100 most populous cities in the U. S. behind neighboring Jersey City and Hialeah, the citys altitude ranges from 0 in the east to approximately 230 feet above sea level in the western section of the city. Newark is essentially a large basin sloping towards the Passaic River, historically, Newarks high places have been its wealthier neighborhoods
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Dance
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Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture, Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin. Other forms of movement are sometimes said to have a dance-like quality, including martial arts, gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming. Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle and it often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or else it may simply interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed. Examples are western ballet and modern dance, Classical Indian dance and Chinese and Japanese song, most classical forms are centred upon dance alone, but performance dance may also appear in opera and other forms of musical theatre. Such dance seldom has any narrative, a group dance and a corps de ballet, a social partner dance and a pas de deux, differ profoundly. Even a solo dance may be solely for the satisfaction of the dancer. On the other hand, some cultures lay down strict rules as to the dances in which, for example. Archeological evidence for early dance includes 9, 000-year-old paintings in India at the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka and it has been proposed that before the invention of written languages, dance was an important part of the oral and performance methods of passing stories down from generation to generation. The use of dance in trance states and healing rituals is thought to have been another early factor in the social development of dance. References to dance can be found in very early recorded history, Greek dance is referred to by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, the Bible and Talmud refer to many events related to dance, and contain over 30 different dance terms. In Chinese pottery as early as the Neolithic period, groups of people are depicted dancing in a line holding hands, Dance is further described in the Lüshi Chunqiu. Primitive dance in ancient China was associated with sorcery and shamanic rituals, during the first millennium BCE in India, many texts were composed which attempted to codify aspects of daily life. Bharata Munis Natyashastra is one of the earlier texts and it mainly deals with drama, in which dance plays an important part in Indian culture. It categorizes dance into four types - secular, ritual, abstract, the text elaborates various hand-gestures and classifies movements of the various limbs, steps and so on. A strong continuous tradition of dance has since continued in India, through to modern times, where it continues to play a role in culture, ritual, and, notably, the Bollywood entertainment industry. Many other contemporary dance forms can likewise be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, Dance is generally, though not exclusively, performed with the accompaniment of music and may or may not be performed in time to such music. Some dance may provide its own audible accompaniment in place of music, many early forms of music and dance were created for each other and are frequently performed together
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Tap dance
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Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major variations on tap dance exist, rhythm tap and Broadway tap, Broadway tap focuses on dance, it is widely performed in musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the jazz tradition, the sound is made by shoes that have a metal tap on the heel and toe. There are different brands of shoes which sometimes differ in the way they sound and it preceded what is currently considered to be modern tap, but has since declined in popularity. Tap dance is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows, as the minstrel shows began to decline in popularity, tap dance moved to the increasingly popular Vaudeville stage. Due to the rule, which forbade blacks from performing solo. This gave rise to the famous pair Buck and Bubbles, which consisted of John Bubbles Sublett tap dancing, the duo perfected the Class Act, a routine in which the performers wore impeccable tuxedos, which has since become a common theme in tap dance. The move is seen by some as a rebuttal to the minstrel show idea of the tap dancer as a grinning-and-dancing clown. John Bubbles Sublett is also known famously for popularizing rhythm tap which incorporates more percussive heel drops, another notable figure to emerge during this period is Bill Bojangles Robinson who was a protégé of Alice Whitman of The Whitman Sisters around 1904. Well versed in both Buck and Wing dancing and Irish Step dancing, Bill Robinson joined the Vaudeville circuit in 1902, the act quickly became famous, headlining events across the country, and touring England as well. In 1908, however, the two had an altercation, and the partnership was ended, gambling on his popularity, Robinson decided to form a solo act, which was extremely rare for a black man at that time. Despite this, he had success and soon became a world-famous celebrity. He went on to have a role in many films. Shortly thereafter, the Nicholas Brothers came on the scene, during the 1930s tap dance mixed with Lindy Hop. Flying swing outs and flying circles are Lindy Hop moves with tap footwork, in the mid- to late 1950s, the style of entertainment changed. Jazz music and tap dance declined, while rock and roll, what is now called jazz dance evolved out of tap dance, so both dances have many moves in common. But jazz evolved separately from tap dance to become a new form in its own right, well-known dancers during the 1960s and 1970s included Arthur Duncan and Tommy Tune. No Maps on My Taps, the Emmy award winning PBS documentary of 1979, the outstanding success of the animated film, Happy Feet, has further reinforced the popular appeal
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Negro league baseball
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The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. In 1885 the Cuban Giants formed the first black baseball team. The first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league, because blacks were not being accepted into the major and minor baseball leagues, they formed their own teams and had made professional teams by the 1880s. The first known game between two black teams was held on November 15,1859, in New York City. The Henson Base Ball Club of Jamaica, Queens, defeated the Unknowns of Weeksville, immediately after the end of the American Civil War in 1865 and during the Reconstruction period that followed, a black baseball scene formed in the East and Mid-Atlantic states. By the end of the 1860s, the black baseball mecca was Philadelphia, two former cricket players, James H. Francis and Francis Wood, formed the Pythian Base Ball Club. They played in Camden, New Jersey, at the landing of the Federal Street Ferry, at the end of the 1867 season the National Association of Baseball Players voted to exclude any club with a black player. In some ways Blackball thrived under segregation, with the few black teams of the day playing not only each other, Black teams earned the bulk of their income playing white independent semipro clubs. Baseball featuring African American players became professionalized by the 1870s, moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother, Welday Wilberforce Walker, were the first two black players in the major leagues. They both played for the 1884 Toledo Blue Stockings in the American Association, then in 1886 second baseman Frank Grant joined the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, the strongest minor league, and hit.340, third highest in the league. C. Merged to form the Cuban Giants, the success of the Cubans led to the creation of the first recognized Negro league in 1887 – the National Colored Base Ball League. Two more joined before the season but never played a game, the league, led by Walter S. Brown of Pittsburgh, applied for and was granted official minor league status and thus protection under the major league-led National Agreement. This move prevented any team in organized baseball from signing any of the NCBBL players, the reserve clause would have tied the players to their clubs from season to season but the NCBBL failed. One month into the season, the Resolutes folded, a week later, only three teams were left. Beginning in 1899 several Cuban baseball teams played in North America, including the All Cubans, the Cuban Stars, the Cuban Stars, some of them included white Cuban players and some were Negro Leagues members. The few players on the minor league teams were constantly dodging verbal and physical abuse from both competitors and fans. Then the Compromise of 1877 removed the remaining obstacles from the Souths enacting the Jim Crow laws, after Anson marched his team onto the field, military style as was his custom, he demanded that the blacks not play. Newark capitulated, and later that day, league owners voted to refuse future contracts to blacks
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Whitney Houston
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time, Houston is one of pop musics best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No.1 Billboard Hot 100 hits and she is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houstons debut album, Whitney Houston, became the debut album by a woman in history. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1986, and ranked it at number 254 on the magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, Whitney, became the first album by a woman to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Houstons first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard. The films original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and its lead single, I Will Always Love You, won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act to sell more than a million copies of an album within a week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the albums of all time. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale, the Preachers Wife soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history. On February 11,2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, the official coroners report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and featured prominently in American, Whitney Houston was born on August 9,1963 in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. and her elder brother Michael is a singer, and her elder half-brother is former basketball player Gary Garland. Her parents were both African American, through her mother, Houston was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Her godmother was Darlene Love and her aunt was Aretha Franklin. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the moved to a middle-class area in East Orange, New Jersey
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Gregory Hines
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Gregory Oliver Hines was an American dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer. Hines was born in New York City on February 14,1946, the son of Alma Iola and Maurice Robert Hines, a dancer, musician, Hines began tapping when he was two years old and began dancing semi-professionally at the age of five. After that, he and his older brother Maurice performed together, Gregory and Maurice also learned from veteran tap dancers, such as Howard Sims and The Nicholas Brothers, whenever they performed in the same venues. The two brothers were known as The Hines Kids, making appearances, and later as The Hines Brothers. When their father joined the act as a drummer, the name changed again in 1963 to Hines, Hines, Hines performed as the lead singer and musician in a rock band called Severance in the year of 1975-1976 based in Venice, California. Severance was one of the bands at an original music club called Honky Hoagies Handy Hangout. Severance released their album on Largo Records in 1976. In 1986, he sang a duet with Luther Vandross, entitled Theres Nothing Better Than Love, Hines made his movie debut in Mel Brookss History of the World, Part I. Critics took note of Hiness comedic charm, and he appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared alongside Billy Crystal, Tap. On television, he starred in his own series in 1997 called The Gregory Hines Show on CBS, in 1999, he would return to voice Big Bill, in Nick Jr. s television show Little Bill. In 2000, he starred in The Tic Code, Hines made his Broadway debut with his brother in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. He earned Tony Award nominations for Eubie, comin Uptown, and Sophisticated Ladies, and won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Jellys Last Jam and the Theatre World Award for Eubie. In 1989, Gregory Hines created Gregory Hines Tap Dance in America, the PBS special featured seasoned tap dancers such as Savion Glover and Bunny Briggs. He also co-hosted the Tony Awards ceremony in 1995 and 2002, in 1990, Hines visited his idol, Sammy Davis, Jr. as he was dying of throat cancer, unable to speak. After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Daviss funeral of how Sammy had made a gesture to him, Hines spoke of the honor that Sammy thought that Hines could carry on from where he left off. He did a lot of improvisation of tap steps, tap sounds and his improvisation was like that of a drummer, doing a solo and coming up with all sorts of rhythms. He also improvised the phrasing of a number of tap steps that he would come up with, a laid back dancer, he usually wore nice pants and a loose-fitting shirt. Although he inherited the roots and tradition of the black rhythmic tap, he influenced the new black rhythmic tap
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Charles Coles
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Charles “Honi” Coles was an American actor and tap dancer. He was best known for his role as Tito Suarez in the film Dirty Dancing, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Coles developed his high-speed rhythm tapping on the streets of his hometown. He first went to New York City as one of the Three Millers and he later returned to headline at the Apollo Theater. In 1940, while dancing with Cab Calloways band, he met, as Coles & Atkins, their routine opened with a fast-paced song and tap number, followed by a precision swing dance, a soft shoe, and a tap-challenge. Coles placed tap in the world of art when he performed in the Joffrey Ballets production of Agnes de Milles Conversations about the Dance. Coles made his Broadway debut in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1949 and he also appeared in Bubbling Brown Sugar and My One and Only, for which he received both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for his performance. During the 1980s, Coles taught dance and dance history at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Coles was a close associate of tap dancer Brenda Bufalino, who was instrumental in helping him rebuild his career in the early 1970s. The American Tap Dance Orchestra was and founded by Bufalino along with Tony Waag Coles in 1986 as a tax exempt 501c3 charitable organization, during that time the Orchestra performed in hundreds of concert, stage, and film projects and thrilled audiences around the world. From 1989 to 1995, the company also operated Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center in New York City, Coles also had a part in the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing. In 1991, Coles was awarded the National Medal of Arts by president George H. W. Bush, Charles Honi Coles died from cancer on November 12,1992. He was inducted, posthumously, into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003 and his wife Marian Edwards Coles died on November 6,2009. While he was performing My One and Only Charles had a stroke, Charles Coles at the Internet Broadway Database Charles Coles at the Internet Movie Database
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Jimmy Slyde
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Jimmy Slyde, born James Titus Godbolt, and known as the King of Slides, was a world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz. Jimmy Slyde was a popular rhythm tapper in America in the century when he performed on the nightclub. He was also popular in Europe because he lived in Paris for a period of his life. Slyde appeared in musicals and shows in the 1980s. Slyde died in 2008, but many will remember him for his musicality and his signature move, Jimmy Slyde was born James Titus Godbolt in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 27,1927. When he was three years old his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the Boston Conservatory of Music in order to advance as a violinist, which his mother encouraged. At the age of twelve, he quit playing the violin at the Conservatory and he then started lessons at Stanley Brown’s studio with his mother’s blessing, who wanted him to do something other than play sports to help contain his energy. At the studio, he studied under Stanley Brown himself and a student teacher, Eddie “Schoolboy” Ford and he connected with another dancer who was known for slides, Jimmy “Sir Slyde” Mitchell, and they put together an act to take on the road. In the 1940s Mitchell and Godbolt started performing at local clubs and this in turn caused Godbolt to be renamed forevermore, Jimmy “Slyde. ”Their acts included action tricks similar to those the Nicholas Brothers performed, however, they used slides as their trademark move. One dance critic, Sally Sommer, explained his slides as such, “He’s upstage left and sliding downstage right as fast and smooth as a skier, arms out to the side. He stops the cascade by banking backward, slips into a fast flurry of taps, working quick and low to the floor and ends the phrase by pulling up high and flashing off a triple turn. ”The act was such a hit, they received invitations to go on the road to perform with big names of the time, including Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. Their tapping was part of the songs where they would create the music for many measures and then the band would come back in. He attempted to work in other cities including San Francisco, Chicago, and Hollywood on the burlesque and nightclub circuits as well as in movies. He found a job working as a choreographer for the tap dancers the Crosby Brothers in the 1960s. He attended with Baby Laurence, James Buster Brown, and Chuck Green, and the crowd received them with excitement and positive praise including regarding them as “Harlems All-Star Dancers. ”This left an impression on Slyde and he felt valued again. With the aid of Sarah Petronio, he helped introduce rhythm tap to Paris, after living, teaching, and performing in Paris, he appeared in the production Black and Blue, which was later reset in New York on Broadway in 1989, in which he also performed. He was nominated for a Tony award for performance and from then on he felt the tap revival. Throughout his revival and the resurgence of tap in America, Slyde performed in The Cotton Club, Motown Returns to the Apollo, Round Midnight, in the 1990s, Slyde started holding jam sessions every week at a jazz nightclub in New York called La Cave
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Samuel George Sammy Davis Jr. was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, comedian, musician, at the age of 3, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio, Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciros after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist, in 1954, he lost his left eye in a car accident, and several years later, he converted to Judaism. Daviss film career began as a child in 1933, in 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Oceans 11. After a starring role on Broadway in 1956s Mr Wonderful, he returned to the stage in 1964s Golden Boy, in 1966 he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Daviss career slowed in the late 1960s, but he had a hit record with The Candy Man in 1972 and became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname Mister Show Business. Davis was a victim of racism throughout his life, particularly during the pre-Civil Rights era, Davis had a complex relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. This was to become a comment, recounted in his autobiography. After reuniting with Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally and he died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. During his lifetime, Davis stated that his mother was Puerto Rican, as an infant, he was reared by his paternal grandmother. When he was 3 years old, his parents separated and his father, not wanting to lose custody of his son, took him on tour. Davis learned to dance from his father and his uncle Will Mastin, Davis joined the act as a child and they became the Will Mastin Trio. Throughout his career, Davis included the Will Mastin Trio in his billing, Mastin and his father shielded him from racism. Snubs were explained as jealousy, for instance, when Davis served in the United States Army during World War II, however, he was confronted by strong racial prejudice. He later said, Overnight the world looked different and it wasnt one color any more
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Howard Sims
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Howard Sandman Sims was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville. They called the board my Stradivarius, Sims said of his sandbox, from the 1950s to the year 2000, Sims was a regular attraction — a fixture — at Harlems noted Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed acts offstage with a hook, broom or other prop. He was also involved in New York Citys Hoofers Club, a venue primarily for Black tap dancers, as part of the resurgence of interest in tap dancing in the 1980s, Sandman Sims served as a cultural ambassador, representing the United States with dance performances around the world. He was featured in the 1989 dance film Tap, along with Sammy Davis Jr. Gregory Hines and Savion Glover, Sims also appeared in a 1990 episode of The Cosby Show as Rudys tap dancing teacher, facing off against Cliff in a good-natured tap challenge. In her review of the based on his life, New York Times critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote. To say Mr. Sims dances on sand is like saying Philippe Petit is a tightrope walker, born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on January 24,1917, Sims was one of 12 children. The family soon relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he was raised, describing his childhood, Sims said, It was just a whole big dancing family. He learned to dance from his father, and said he was dancing as soon as he could walk and he began tap-dancing at the age of 3. He attributed some of his love for tap dancing in particular to his mother, exasperated that he kept wearing out the toes of his shoes. Along with his brothers, Sims was dancing on the sidewalks of Los Angeles from a young age, as a young man, despite his dance talent, Sims aspired to be not a professional dancer, but a professional boxer. After twice breaking his hand, he decided he needed a different means of making a living and he began to consider dancing as a career alternative. Finally he found the solution, loose sand in a low-lipped box, people went for the scraping sound. So I made a board by sprinkling sand on a flat platform. His sandbox remained his trademark throughout his career, with some venues even telling Sims, If you dont bring your sandbox, dont come at all. During this period, it was common for dancers to carry tap shoes with them and, the culture of street dancing in the 1920s has been compared to the rise of break dancing six decades later. Despite performing at vaudeville venues, Sims found neither fame nor success as a dancer in Los Angeles. In 1947, he tagged along on one of his professional-boxer friend Archie Moores cross-country drives, and settled in New York City. After arriving in Harlem, Sims began performing on the street as he had done in California, there was a man who could dance on newspapers without tearing them
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Warner Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
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Warner Theatre is a theatre located at 513 13th Street, N. W. in downtown Washington, D. C. The theatre is attached to a building called the Warner Building located on 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Warner Theatre was originally developed by Aaron and Julian Brylawski in 1922, originally named the Earle Theatre, it was built in 1924 as a movie palace presenting live vaudeville and first run silent movies. It was designed by theatre architect C. Howard Crane of Detroit, the Earle Theatre opened December 27,1924. It had a garden, basement ballroom, and restaurant. It was said to be just about the last word in theatre construction, a thing of beauty, in the 1930s, the basement of the theatre had a restaurant called the Neptune Room. On August 12,1943, the movie This Is the Army premiered there, in 1945, the theatre began showing movies exclusively. The Earle featured its own dance troupe – much like the still-famous Rockettes – called the Roxyettes. They would perform before and after films until 1945 and they had guest performances by Red Skelton and Jerry Lewis. The theatre was renamed in 1947 in honor of its owner, Harry Warner, Harry Warner was said to have commented I own that theatre. Some of the biggest acts of the 1930s and 1940s came to the theatre, including Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Sophie Tucker, in the 1950s the theatre was redesigned for Cinerama movies. In the 1960s they showed films as Ben-Hur, Doctor Zhivago. By the 1970s, the Warner Theatre had fallen into disrepair and was used to screen pornographic films before being revived as a live concert venue. In 1978, The Rolling Stones performed a show at the theatre. The Warner Theatre closed for renovations in 1989, the Kaempfer Companys $10 million renovations restored the theatre back to its original splendor. The theatre reopened in October 1992, frank Sinatra performed for the reopening ceremony. It was his last DC performance before his death in 1998, in 2007, it was the venue for the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The recipient of the first Gershwin Prize was Paul Simon, the theatre is also home to The BET Honors ceremony, held annually
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
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Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk is a musical that debuted Off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater in 1995 and moved to Broadway in 1996. The show was conceived and directed by George C, Wolfe, and featured music by Daryl Waters, Zane Mark and Ann Duquesnay, lyrics by Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe and Ann Duquesnay, and a book by Reg E. Gaines. The choreography was by Savion Glover, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk premiered off-Broadway at the Public Theaters Newman Theatre on November 3,1995 and closed on January 28,1996 after 85 performances. The musical moved to the Ambassador Theatre on Broadway, opening there on April 25,1996, the show closed after 1135 performances on January 10,1999. The opening night cast included Jeffrey Wright, Glover, Duquesnay, again directed by Wolfe, with sets and lighting by the off-Broadway team, costume design was by Paul Tazewell. Glover left the show but returned for 40 performances from December 8,1998 through January 10,1999, Glover toured with the musical in 2002. The Original Broadway Cast recording was issued by RCA Victor, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk is a musical revue telling the story, through tap, of black history from slavery to the present. The musical numbers are presented along with supertitles, projected images and videotapes, Wolfe took the rap words of Reg E. Gaines and turned them into tap/rap. The show is an explosive and bravely literal-minded chronicle of the history from slavery to the present. The music is beautiful and the exuberant, but Funk is serious business, with vicious. The New York Times wrote, as dance, as musical, as theater, as art, as history and entertainment, theres nothing Noise/Funk cannot, the musical made an extraordinary political statement. As well as the significant growth in dance this show launched. A History of African American Theatre, cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-62443-6, p
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Louise Fitzhugh
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Louise Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of childrens books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy. Her other novels were two Harriet sequels, The Long Secret and Sport, and Nobodys Family is Going to Change, Fitzhugh was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to wealthy parents in 1928. Her parents divorced when she was an infant and her father, Millsaps Fitzhugh, gained custody and she attended Miss Hutchisons School and three different universities. She attended Bard College where she involved in politics and anti-racism. She also studied at the Art Students League and the Cooper Union and she lived most of her adult life in New York City and had houses in both Long Island and Bridgewater, Connecticut. Fitzhugh worked closely with author Sandra Scoppettone to produce Suzuki Beane, although a parody of both Eloise and beatnik conceit, the book sprang to life as a genuine work of literature. Today, it is a much sought-after book on used-book websites, Fitzhughs best-known book was Harriet the Spy, published in 1964 to some controversy since so many characters were far from admirable. It has since become a classic, according to her New York Times obituary, published November 19,1974, The book helped introduce a new realism to childrens fiction and has been widely imitated. Harriet is the daughter of affluent New Yorkers who leave her in the care of her nanny, Ole Golly, in their Manhattan townhouse. Hardly the feminine girl heroine typical of the early 1960s, Harriet is a writer who notes everything about everybody in her world in a notebook which ultimately falls into the wrong hands, Ole Golly gives Harriet the unlikely but practical advice that, Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth, by and large, Harriet the Spy was well-received—it was named to the New York Times Outstanding Book Award list in 1964—and has sold 4 million copies since publication. It was very popular among girls, particularly unfeminine or non-conforming girls who lacked representation in fiction, Fitzhugh. Two characters from the book, Beth Ellen and Sport, were featured in two of Fitzhughs later books, The Long Secret and Sport, the Long Secret deals fairly honestly with female puberty, the main characters are pre-teen girls who discuss how their changing bodies feel. Another young adult manuscript, Amelia, concerned two girls falling in love and this manuscript was not published and was later lost. Fitzhugh illustrated many of her books and had exhibited in Banfer Gallery, New York, in 1963. Fitzhugh died in 1974 of a brain aneurysm and her obituary was published in The New York Times. Susan Bonners, LCCN 82-70309 I Am Three, illus, satire and the Evolution of Perspective in Childrens Literature, Mark Twain, E. B. Louise Fitzhugh, Marisol, and the Realm of Art, purple Socks, A Louise Fitzhugh Fan Site. at the Wayback Machine Grant, Neva
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Jelly's Last Jam
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Jellys Last Jam is a musical with a book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jelly Roll Morton, laMothe was born into a Louisiana Creole family that was established and free before the Civil War. The play opens with the recently deceased Morton in a state of limbo and he is reluctantly guided by the mysterious Chimney Man, who forces him to recall the more painful moments of his life when he attempts to ignore or embellish them. When his Creole grandmother discovers his new lifestyle, she disowns him, forced to go on the road, Morton becomes a prominent composer and musician, and the self-proclaimed creator of jazz. His sadness over his familys rejection causes him to stress his Creole ancestry, eventually his pride and racism cause him to betray his best friend and the woman he loves. At the moment of his death, Morton at last admits to his heritage - Aint no black notes in my song/I was wrong/ I was wrong. At this moment, the shadows of the people in his life surround him to congratulate him, Jellys Last Jam premiered at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California, in March 1991. Directed by Wolfe, Obba Babatunde played Jelly Roll, the Broadway production opened at the Virginia Theatre on April 26,1992 and closed on September 5,1993 after 569 performances and 25 previews. In addition to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover as the older and younger Morton, the cast included Ken Ard, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ann Duquesnay, Tonya Pinkins, Mary Bond Davis, phylicia Rashad, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Ben Vereen joined the cast later in the run. An original cast recording was released by Decca Broadway, john Lahr wrote the introduction to the printed script of Jellys Last Jam, and noted that the musical reclaims the gorgeous power of tap dancing as part of musical story telling. Internet Broadway Database listing New York Times review
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. His composition Jelly Roll Blues, published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition, Morton was born into a creole of color family in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Sources differ as to his date, a baptismal certificate issued in 1894 lists his date of birth as October 20,1890, Morton. His World War I draft registration card showed September 13,1884 and he was born to F. P. Lamothe and Louise Monette. Hécaud helped choose his name, Ferdinand. His parents lived in a marriage and were not legally married. No birth certificate has been found to date, Ferdinand started playing music as a child, showing talent at an early age. After his parents separated, his mother married a man named Mouton, Ferdinand took his stepfathers surname and anglicized it as Morton. At the age of fourteen, Morton began working as a player in a brothel. In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics, he took the nickname Jelly Roll, while working there, he was living with his churchgoing great-grandmother, he convinced her that he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory. After Mortons grandmother found out that he was playing jazz in a brothel, she kicked him out of her house. He said, When my grandmother found out that I was playing jazz in one of the houses in the District, she told me that I had disgraced the family. She told me that devil music would bring about my downfall. The cornetist Rex Stewart recalled that Morton had chosen the nom de plume Morton to protect his family from disgrace if he was identified as a whorehouse professor, Tony Jackson, also a pianist at brothels and an accomplished guitar player, was a major influence on Mortons music. Morton said that Jackson was the only pianist better than he was, around 1904, Morton also started touring in the American South, working with minstrel shows including Will Benbows Chocolate Drops, gambling and composing. His works Jelly Roll Blues, New Orleans Blues, Frog-I-More Rag, Animule Dance, and King Porter Stomp were composed during this period. He got to Chicago in 1910 and New York City in 1911, in 1912–14, Morton toured with his girlfriend Rosa Brown as a vaudeville act before settling in Chicago for three years. By 1914, he had started writing down his compositions, in 1915, his Jelly Roll Blues was arguably the first jazz composition ever published, recording as sheet music the New Orleans traditions that had been jealously guarded by musicians
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Drama Desk Award
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Broadway productions were excluded until the 1968–69 award season. The awards are considered a significant American theatre distinction and they debuted the presentations of the Vernon Rice Awards. The name honors the New York Post critic Vernon Rice, who had pioneered Off-Broadway coverage in the New York press, the name was changed for the 1963–1964 awards season to the Drama Desk Awards. In 1974, the Drama Desk became incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, in 1975, the Drama announcement of winners included the nominees as well. The Drama Desk has more than 100 members, including critics, reporters and editors who cover New York theater. Membership consists of two categories, Active membership and Participating Membership, all of the Drama Desk officers and Nominating Committee members perform their various services for the organization on a voluntary basis. The Nominating Committee generally meets twice a month to discuss the many eligible shows members are responsible for seeing and they then nominate the productions on which the entire membership will vote. What sets the organization apart is that the awards are voted on by people only without any vested interests in the results. Previous winners include Bernadette Peters, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, over the last 36 years, the Drama Desk Awards have contributed to the ongoing success of major stars, playwrights and designers, while also identifying newcomers. The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Other Peoples Money, Steel Magnolias, and The Boys in the Band built momentum with the help of Drama Desk wins. In 2010 William Wolf was announced as the President of Drama Desk, the current managing executive producer of the Drama Desk Awards is Gretchen Shugart, and the president of the Drama Desk is Charles Wright. David Barbour is chairperson of the nominating committee, in keeping with its original mission, the organization sponsors guest panel luncheons with theater professionals. Panels address topics of current interest, covering the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, with the aim of prompting informative and stimulating discussion
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Music Box Theatre
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The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan. It opened in 1921 and hosted a new production every year until 1925. The following year, Chicago, the Maurine Dallas Watkins play that served as the basis for the hit musical, opened here. It housed a string of hits for the team of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin also presented shows here, in the 1950s, playwright William Inge found a home at the Music Box, where he had success with Picnic, Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. One of the smaller Broadway houses, with a capacity of 860, the theatre was co-owned by Berlins estate. Its box seats are notable for being large and round. The lobby features a plaque and wall exhibit commemorating its rich history, the Brown Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky is modeled after the Music Box Theatre
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Trabbi Goes to Hollywood
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Trabbi Goes to Hollywood is a 1991 US comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise, and James Tolkan. But by the time his invention is perfected, East and West Germany are reunited, an American tycoon John Mcready invites him to go to the USA, especially to the Los Angeles Automobile Festival, and gives him a card if he needs his help. With this idea Gunther leaves his hometown, Gunther arrives to the venue of the event and with the help of Max they decide together to go to each manufacturers chairman to offer the idea. But he had trouble to reach the car manufacturers because they all chat with Mr. B a kind of car genius who says to all that he has developed a new car prototype. Desperate to find a new car like he promises, Mr B orders to one of his aide Vince to find one, during the search Vince sees the Trabant who Gunther brings from his East Germany hometown parked in the hotel where the auto show held. Driving in a freeway and for the less speed Vince operates a device developed by Gunther, so intrigued by the fact, Vince with Mr B. decides to search and investigate the Trabbi motor and discovered that he only works with vegetables. Max says to Gunther that his Trabbi was stolen and decide to recover it, in his search he notices that Mr. B had it and summon a media conference where will launch the car like his own. Passing off as the Peugeot chairman with Ricki enters to Mr Bs mansion and says to all the media that car was his idea and immediately is expelled. Looking the card that John Mcready gave him, he decided to visit him in his offices for help. John tells that the way to save his town is that he gives two million dollars money who gave to East Germany authorities to allow build the factory. Together go with them an American Motor Company executive with interest in the car, in a moment near to a defile, Gunther with Max waiting to Ricki for decide the new ways to reach to the fabricants. The American Motors executives chats with them and offers the money but Gunther notices that Vince takes the Trabbi to defile, the executive ask to Mr. B if he can make the car again and starts to cry. In that part Gunther get out of the defile, says to the executive that he can build it, the German film magazine Cinema evaluates the film as a ramschiger Rübenrotz and summarized the film plots value with the words Thommy Go Home. Trabbi Goes to Hollywood at the Internet Movie Database
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Tap (film)
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Tap is a 1989 dance drama film written and directed by Nick Castle. It stars Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr. Max Washington and his late father owned a dance studio that is now run by Little Mo, whose daughter Amy Simms gives lessons to children. Back on the streets, Max isnt interested in dancing again but he is interested in seeing Amy, a local gangster, Nicky, doesnt care for Max personally but does try to recruit him to take part in a robbery. Amy has a job as dancer in an upcoming Broadway show and tells its choreographer about Max, Max is reluctant to agree to it, then incensed when he is humiliated during the auditions. Max must decide whether to swallow his pride and dance the way the man wants, or give up his art once and for all and this was the final film appearance of Sammy Davis, Jr. The cast also included Suzzanne Douglas, Savion Glover, Joe Morton, the original score was composed by James Newton Howard and the dance routines performed in Washingtons old hangout, a club patronized by hoofers, were choreographed by Henry LeTang. Also included are cameos, particularly during a sequence, by veteran dancers Arthur Duncan, Bunny Briggs, Howard Sims, Steve Condos, Harold Nicholas
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Bamboozled
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The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000, and was released on DVD the following year. It stars an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, pierre Delacroix, is an uptight, Harvard University-educated black man, working for the television network CNS. At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty, Dunwitty frequently rejects Delacroixs scripts for television series that portray black people in positive, intelligent scenarios, dismissing them as Cosby clones. In an effort to escape his contract through being fired, Delacroix develops a minstrel show with the help of his personal assistant Sloane Hopkins. Delacroix and Hopkins recruit two impoverished street performers – Manray, named after American artist Man Ray, and Womack – to star in the show. While Womack is horrified when Delacroix tells him details about the show, Manray sees it as his big chance to become rich, to Delacroixs horror, not only does Dunwitty enthusiastically endorse the show, it also becomes hugely successful. As soon as the show premieres, Manray and Womack become big stars, while Delacroix, contrary to his stated intent. Delacroix quickly embraces the show, his fame and awards while Hopkins becomes horrified at the racist nightmare she has helped to unleash. Meanwhile, an underground, militant rap group called the Mau Maus, led by Hopkins older brother Julius, though they had earlier unsuccessfully auditioned for the programs live band position, the group plans to bring the show down using violence. Eventually, Womack quits, fed up with the show and Manrays increasing ego, Manray and Hopkins grow closer, which angers Delacroix. When he attempts to sabotage their relationship, they grow closer. Delacroix confronts Hopkins, and when she lashes back at him, then she shows him a videotape she created of racist footage culled from assorted media to shame Delacroix into stopping production of the show, but he refuses to watch it. After an argument with Delacroix, Manray realizes he is being exploited and he appears in front of the studio audience, who are all in blackface, during a TV taping and does his dance number in his regular clothing. The network executives immediately turn against Manray, and Dunwitty fires him, the Mau Maus kidnap Manray and announce his public execution via live webcast. The authorities work feverishly to track down the source of the internet feed, at his office, Delacroix fantasizes that the various black-themed antique collectibles in his office are staring him down and coming to life, in a rage, he destroys many of the items. The police kill all the members of the Mau Maus except for One-Sixteenth Blak, furious, Hopkins confronts Delacroix at gunpoint with her brothers revolver and demands that he play her tape. As the tape plays, Hopkins reminds him of the lives that were ruined because of his actions, during a struggle over the gun, Delacroix is shot in the stomach. Hopkins, horrified, flees while proclaiming that it was Delacroixs own fault that he got shot, Delacroix, holding the gun in his hands to make his wound appear self-inflicted, watches the tape as he lies dying on the floor
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Barbra Streisand
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Barbara Joan Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. She is among a group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Streisand is one of the music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award, with the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical, Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first woman to win that award. The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any recording artist. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums, Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart. Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24,1942, in Brooklyn, New York and her mother had been a soprano singer in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a school teacher at the same school. Streisands family was Jewish, her grandparents emigrated from Galicia and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire. Her father earned a degree from City College of New York in 1928 and was considered athletic. As a student, he spent his summers outdoors, once working as a lifeguard, hed try anything, his sister Molly said. He married Ida in 1930, two years after graduating, and became a respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged. In August 1943, a few months after Streisands first birthday, her father died suddenly at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, the family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an outcast, explaining and her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved, When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food, Streisand says. Streisand recalls that her mother had a voice and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was thirteen, she told Rosie ODonnell, she and that session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her first moment of inspiration as an artist. She has a brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister
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Timeless (Barbra Streisand)
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Timeless is a tour by entertainer Barbra Streisand. Following her hotly anticipated Millennium Concert 1999/2000 Barbra decided to take this concert on the road for an 8-day tour of Australia, the tour grossed a record breaking $70 million and drew audiences of 200,000 for only 10 dates. The tour was directed by Streisand and Kenny Ortega and was set to be solely a Millennium concert with 2 concerts seeing in the year 2000. The dates were released in April and all sold out within a few hours of going on sale. Although only 10 shows were performed, they were spread over 9 months and this CD includes a credit listing Sydney Philharmonia Choirs who recorded backing tracks in March 2000 that were included in this live album. February 2001 saw the release of Timeless the DVD which debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Top Music Video Sales chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA, set list per official DVD track listing. NOTE, Some performers do not appear in person, bryan Adams – vocals Robert L
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Happy Feet
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Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and it was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros. Village Roadshow Pictures, and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North American theaters on November 17,2006 and it is the first animated film produced by Kennedy Miller in association with Animal Logic. Though primarily a film, the film does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes. The film was released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format. The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility, however, Warner Bros. the film’s production company, was on too tight a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D. Happy Feet received generally positive reviews critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, a sequel, Happy Feet Two, was released into theaters November 18,2011 to mixed reviews. Every emperor penguin sings a song called a heartsong to attract a mate. If the male penguins heartsong matches the song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin. They lay an egg, which is left in Memphis care, while the males struggle through the harsh winter, Memphis briefly drops the egg. As a result, Mumble is unable to sing, but he can tap dance instead, nevertheless, he is enamored with Gloria, a female penguin who is regarded as the most talented of her age. One day, Mumble encounters a group of hostile skua, with a leader who is tagged with a yellow band, Mumble narrowly escapes the hungry birds by falling into a crevice. Now a young adult, Mumble is frequently ridiculed by the elders, after escaping from a leopard seal attack, Mumble befriends a group of Adelie penguins called the Amigos, who embrace Mumbles dance moves and assimilate him into their group. After seeing a hidden human excavator in an avalanche, they opt to ask Lovelace, Lovelace has the plastic rings of a six pack entangled around his neck, which he claims to have been bestowed upon him by mystic beings. For the emperor penguins, it is mating season and Gloria is the center of attention, ramón, one of the Amigos, attempts to help Mumble win her affection by singing a Spanish version of My Way, with Mumble lip syncing, but the plan fails. In desperation, Mumble begins tap dancing in synch with her song and she falls for him and the youthful penguins join in for singing and dancing to Boogie Wonderland
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Happy Feet Two
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Happy Feet Two is a 2011 Australian-American 3D computer-animated family musical comedy film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller. It is the sequel to Millers 2006 film Happy Feet and it features Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia reprising their roles from the first film. Common also replaced Fat Joe as Seymour, the original cast is joined by new characters voiced by Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofía Vergara. Kennedy Miller Mitchell and Dr. D Studios from Sydney, Australia, produced the film, the film was released with a Looney Tunes short called I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat starring Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird. The film received mixed reviews and lost $40 million, resulting in the closure of Millers Dr. D Studios. Erik, son of the penguins Mumble and Gloria, is unable to dance like the other penguins, Erik and his two best friends, Bodicea and Atticus, follow Ramon to Adélie-Land and find that Adélie-Land has been ruled by a God-like penguin named Sven. Sven is actually a puffin in Adélie-Land who survived the loss of his native fishing grounds due to his miraculous ability to fly, Erik instantly becomes enamored with Sven, who takes a liking to him. Sven and Lovelace tell the others that they were saved by humans, the two eventually flee and end up on Antarctica, where Sven performs his first miracle by revealing moss to the local penguins. Sven uses his power of Sven Think to help Ramon find a mate, Ramon instantly falls in love with Carmen, another Adélie penguin who is uninterested. Mumble follows the chicks footprints to Adélie-Land and orders them to return to Emperor-Land, Sven sends Erik back to Emperor-Land with Mumble. Meanwhile, a couple of krill are in the midst of a swarm, will is an adventurous and existentialist krill determined to discover what lies beyond the swarm. His friend, Bill, reluctantly follows him to ensure his safety, once separated from the swarm, Will and Bill realize that krill are at the bottom of the food chain, created to be eaten. Inspired, Will ventures out to evolve and move up the chain by eating a real creature instead of being eaten. Mumble tells Erik that he is unique to the world and that he will find his calling. While trying to cross a perilous ice bridge, the penguins encounter Elephant Seal Bryan the Beach Master, suddenly the ice gives away and Bryan is trapped in a deep crevice below the ice. Mumble sets out to free Bryan by luring a leopard seal to chase him down, seeking acceptance from Erik, Mumble is devastated to learn Erik attributed the feat of courage to Sven Think. Bryan returns to the elephant seal beach. When the penguins return to Emperor-Land they discover that a large iceberg has trapped the emperor penguin population below large walls of ice, Bo ventures out to Adélie-Land to recruit the help of Ramon, the Amigos and the Adélie penguins to bring fish to the doomed Emperor penguins
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Sesame Street
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Sesame Street is a long-running American childrens television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its content, and images communicated through the use of Jim Hensons Muppets, animation, short films, humor. The show has undergone significant changes throughout its history, with the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a childrens television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a shows educational effects were studied, the show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or co-productions, in 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street, and by the shows 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was the childrens television show in the United States. A1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old, in 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children. As of 2014, Sesame Street has won 167 Emmy Awards and 8 Grammy Awards—more than any other childrens show, Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a television show that would master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them. The program premiered on television stations on November 10,1969. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory, initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in over 120 countries, Sesame Street has evolved from its initial inception. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become an American institution, the cast and crew expanded during this time, with emphasis on the hiring of women crew members and the addition of minorities to the cast. The shows success continued into the 1980s, Sesame Streets curriculum has expanded to include more affective topics such as relationships, ethics, and emotions. After the turn of the 21st century, Sesame Street made major structural changes, for example, starting in 2002, its format became more narrative and included ongoing storylines. After its thirtieth anniversary in 1999 and due to the popularity of the Muppet Elmo, upon its fortieth anniversary in 2009, the show received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy at the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards. In April 2017, Sesame Street will introduce a new puppet called Julia with Autism to the show, and will be voiced by Stacey Gordon, who started Puppet Pie and has a son on the autism spectrum. From its first episode, Sesame Street has structured its format by using a visual style, fast-moving action, humor
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Bojangles (film)
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Bojangles is an American biographical drama that chronicles the life of entertainer Bill Bojangles Robinson. This film boasts some incredible tap dance routines and a complicated, if not unique, interpretation of the character by Gregory Hines. In 1916, Robinson was a vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, on the vaudeville circuits there was what was known as the two-colored rule—no solo performances for black entertainers, at least two had to be on the stage. But Robinson started in the productions and shocked people when he worked as a solo act. Robinson was a subject for a movie biography. He loved his native New York City and gained notoriety for his generosity, performing at more of 3000 benefits, but was also a compulsive gambler, an effective supporting cast helps to keep the energy levels from flagging. Bojangles also features Savion Glover and Maria Ricossa, all of these characters speak directly to the camera/audience at one point or another, a device that also helps vary the mostly straight-line storyline. Furthermore, the allows the opportunity for the audience to examine the difficulties of black entertainers back then against similar difficulties today. Bojangles was produced by Darrick Productions and MGM Television for the Showtime premium cable network. com Amazon. com
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The Talk (talk show)
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The Talk is an American talk show on CBS that debuted on October 18,2010, as part of its CBS Daytime programming block. The show was created by actress Sara Gilbert, who serves as an executive producer. The show is based on the British daily womens panel show Loose Women and it also contains celebrity interviews and segments for mothers and parents in general. The Talk is broadcast before a studio audience at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City. Musical performances are occasionally featured. Each episode is concluded by one of the co-hosts, primarily the moderator, with the sign-off Remember, its always the right time to have The Talk. In December 2009, CBS announced the cancellation of As the World Turns after 54 years, Sara Gilbert approached CBS about producing a pilot that would feature six women talking about the days headlines with opinions told through the eyes of mothers. The original panel consisted of Sara Gilbert, Holly Robinson Peete, best known for her roles on the TV series 21 Jump Street, on January 14,2011, Marissa Jaret Winokur reported that she would not be returning to the show in 2011. In an exclusive statement to People, original executive producer Brad Bessey said of Winokurs departure, We think the world of Marissa as a talent, on-air personality. This is a decision based on time, not talent. When Americas Got Talent resumed filming on March 2,2011, Osbournes daughter Kelly Osbourne began filling in for her on a substitute basis, on August 26,2011, it was announced that original co-host Leah Remini had been released from the show. On September 2,2011, it was confirmed that Holly Robinson Peete had also released from the show. You cant pretend to be something youre not and you have to know your brand. You cant be all things to everyone, molly Shannon served as the co-host during the month of September 2011. Actress and comedian Aisha Tylers addition to the panel was announced on October 23,2011, season six premiered on September 14,2015 with a slightly new set design featuring 3 new large monitors with backdrops including palm trees and the Los Angeles skyline. On March 14,2016, all of The Talk hosts made a cameo on Supergirl in the episode Falling when Cat Grant made a guest appearance on The Talk, season seven premiered on September 12,2016 with the same set. The hosts kicked off premiere week by unveiling answers to the viewers biggest questions with a theme they called The 7 Wonders of The Talk, carnie Wilson and Leeza Gibbons are the primary substitute hosts, filling in for members on the panel. The show made two trips to New York City during its season, broadcasting live for one week on each trip
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Sheryl Underwood
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Sheryl Underwood is an American comedian, actress and television host. She first rose to prominence in the world as the first female finalist in 1989s Miller Lite Comedy Search. She is well-known for hosting BET Comic View and is one of the five hosts on the daytime chat show The Talk on CBS. Underwood was born in Little Rock, Arkansas though later moved to Atwater and she has a brother, Michael, and an older sister, Frankie, who was diagnosed with polio. Michael and Sheryl would often take turns giving care to Frankie, Underwood revealed that she was born with a twin that didnt survive. She went on to say that she had lied to by her mother. Underwood admitted to carrying her sisters birth certificate around with her, after graduating college, she served in the military. She later gained notice as the first female finalist in the Miller Lite Comedy Search in 1989. She won the BET Funniest Female Comedian on Comic View award in 1994, following her stand up success, Underwood took a number of minor acting roles including Bad Mouth Bessie in the 1998 film I Got the Hook Up, and Catfish Rita in the 2005 film Beauty Shop. Underwood was the host of BETs Comic View and executive producer, Underwood was a contributor on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show until June 2010 when she jumped ship to The Steve Harvey Morning Show to be their contributor. She briefly hosted her own program, Sheryl Underwood and Company for Radio One-owned Syndication One News/Talk. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Masters degrees in Media Management, Underwood once served in the U. S. Armed Forces, and frequently jokes about all the creative places you can get busy on a military base. However she campaigned for Barack Obamas re-election in United States presidential election,2012, Underwood also campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election because we have to protect the legacy of President Obama. Low voter turnout benefits Donald Trump and the Republicans, Underwood is a lifetime member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, first joining in 1990. She served as president of the organizations Omicron Rho Zeta chapter, as the National Chair of Honorary Members, National Executive Board Chair and she also chartered a graduate chapter of Zeta Phi Beta in Inglewood, California. In addition to the Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Underwood is also a member of the National Council of Negro Women and she also founded the African-American Female Comedian Association. In the fall of 2011, Underwood revealed that after dating seven years, Underwood was elected as the 23rd International Grand Basileus during Zeta Phi Betas biennial business meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2008
