Auditorium Theatre 2021-2022, Issue 3, Alvin Ailey

Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 2PM 8 | AUDITORIUM THEATRE :: ALVIN AILEY Celebrating Alvin Ailey BLUES SUITE (1958) Choreography by Alvin Ailey Restaged by Matthew Rushing, Ronni Favors & Clifton Brown Music: Traditional Decor and costume design by Ves Harper Costumes redesigned by Normand Maxon Costume design for “Yancey Special” by Jose Coronado Original Lighting designed by Nicola Cernovitch Lighting design by Chenault Spence Dedicated to the memory of our Brother John Sellers. “Been down so long Getting up don’t cross my mind... When you see me laughing I’m laughing to keep from crying...” From the fields and barrelhouses of the Southern Negro sprang the blues — songs of lost love, despair, protest, and anger — hymns to the secular regions of his soul. Good Morning Blues The Company I Cried Solomon Dumas and The Company Mean Ol’ Frisco Lloyd A. Boyd III, James Gilmer, Brandon Michael Woolridge, Christopher R. Wilson, Patrick Coker House of the Rising Sun Ashley Mayeux, Caroline T. Dartey, Jacquelin Harris Backwater Blues Courtney Celeste Spears, Solomon Dumas In the Evening James Gilmer, Lloyd A. Boyd III, Solomon Dumas, Patrick Coker Yancey Special The Company Sham Christopher R. Wilson, Yazzmeen Laidler, and The Company Good Morning Blues The Company This production of Blues Suite was made possible with major support from American Express. Generous support was also provided by The Ellen Jewett & Richard L. Kauffman New Works Endowment Fund. — INTERMISSION — Excerpts from PAS DE DUKE (1976) Choreography by Alvin Ailey Restaged by Matthew Rushing & Ronni Favors Music by Duke Ellington Costumes by Rouben Ter-Arutunian Lighting by Chenault Spence Samantha Figgins, James Gilmer Support for this production was provided by The Ellen Jewett & Richard L. Kauffman New Works Endowment Fund and Daria L. & Eric J. Wallach. The original Ailey production was made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Generous support for this production was received from Laren and Jesse Brill. “Such Sweet Thunder” (1957), “Sonnet for Caesar” (1957). Used with the permission of Tempo Music, Inc., Mercer Ellington Publishing, and G. Schirmer Inc. — PAUSE — REFLECTIONS IN D (1963) Choreography by Alvin Ailey Restaged by Judith Jamison Music by Duke Ellington Costume recreated by Jon Taylor Lighting by Nicola Cernovitch Vernard J. Gilmore Generous support for this new production was received from Laren and Jesse Brill. “Reflections In D” written by Duke Ellington, Used with the permission of Sony/ATV Harmony, Tempo Music, Inc., and G. Schirmer. — PAUSE —