Solo Show Oh, Yes She Did! Highlights Historic Black Women
Greenway Court Theatre (544 North Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $14.00*
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The last date listed for Oh Yes She Did! was Tuesday October 30, 2012 / 7:30pm.
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Casual to dressy
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Free next to theater.
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Water and coffee are served.
32 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Written on Oct 09 2012Sandy Brown is incredible!!!!! This is the Best one woman show I have ever seen!!!....It is a MUST! MUST! MUST! see!!!
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Written on Sep 27 2012Great performance! Ms. Brown is a very talented woman. She convincingly breathes life into a handful of very different characters, and does so with passion! Entertaining, informative, and even (dare I say it?) educational. The actor/friend I went with said this was the best one-person show she has seen in many years. Highly recommend. Bravo!
CJ
Written on Sep 11 2012What I really liked about this event was that it was a great history lesson. I knew most of the characters that were portrayed, but I learned things about each of them that I didn't know. Sandy Brown did a wonderful job engaging the audience as she played each character to perfection. I enjoyed this event immensely.
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Written on Sep 10 2012Great show from a talented and evocative performer. I learned, and wondered and laughed. This is part one of a continuing series, the next installment due about January.
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Quotes & Highlights
- Goldstar members have loved Brown in her performances at other theaters. Read what they have to say about her shows at The Lillian Theatre, The Shelton Theatre and Theatre/Theater, where it won Goldstar's "Roar of the Crowd" award.
- “Ms. Brown is herself a pioneer of today, forging her own artistic creation ... in a town full of celebrities ... she herself is breaking new ground." —The Examiner
- "I just saw this great performance, Oh, Yes She Did by Sandy Brown, covering important African American women throughout history. It was quite incredible. I've always been an avid supporter of civil rights and this performance has only strengthened my feminist and egalitarian beliefs. I now have a huge list of books to read by Angela Davis, Gloria Steinem, and many others. It will probably take me years to read them all, but that's a price I'm all too willing to pay. So I say: "Power to the people!!!" —Feminist Humor Blog
Description
Sandy Brown returns, blazing the stage, unleashing centuries of dynamic history, blending drama, humor, music, dance & multi-media as she breathes-to-life legacies of bold Lady Pioneers who helped liberate the nation, and changed the course of American History, forever.
Experience the powerful ride of social justice/injustice in America as Sandy Brown morphs into legendary women who liberated a nation: Revolutionary War slave-poet Phillis Wheatley; runaway with Harriet Tubman on the Underground Railroad; meet world's first woman self-made millionaire-suffragette Madame CJ Walker; follow global superstar and war spy Josephine Baker; go backstage with jazz legend Billie Holiday; bus-ride with Rosa Parks; protest with activist Angela Davis; campaign with first woman Democratic presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm and more on this innovative and critically-acclaimed theatrical journey through the centuries.