After Midnight | Prologues

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Paper Mill Prologues offers our audience an extra layer of insight and context for our productions. In this video, we discuss the third production of our 85th season, After Midnight.
After Midnight transports you to the Cotton Club of the Harlem Renaissance, intertwining exhilarating dance from tap to Lindy Hop with songs from big-band legends Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, and more. The electrifying score features such hits as “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love,” “Stormy Weather,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing.” JAN 31-FEB 25, 2024
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[@jenbender6128]

This is an exceptional compilation of the entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance and the New York history that led to it.

[@Rhythm911]

I owe my abilities, and sensibilities, as a Rhythmatist/Musician Creator/Music Connoisseur, to a heavy, lifelong. influence of the various genres of music from the Black community,In the Americas since the late 1950's ... An influence that blasted off on hyper-drive when I went to North Africa in 1980. Evolving my Interests into the worldwide communities of all the flavors of Ethni-color musique and culture !!!