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NEW YORK, NY – It’s being called groundbreaking. It’s the new feature-length hip-hop/R&B musical
Hal Kingand it’s scheduled to be released by Gravitas Ventures and it will premiere across platforms on Tuesday (02-09-21). Set in a late-1950s jazz-era Midwestern town,
Hal King brilliantly modernizes and musicalizes William Shakespeare’s
Henry IV and
Henry V, and the iconic character of Young Hal.
Hal King opens in a speakeasy, where the jazz is smooth and the good times flow. Young Hal revels at the center of it all, a cool cat with a posse of pals and a standing invite to the chanteuse’s dressing room. On the other side of town and what might as well be a world away, Hal’s father, a local politician and community leader speaks about strengthening the African- American community. Hal wants no part of that world or the responsibility that comes with it until tragedy strikes and takes him overseas to the Korean War, where he fights bravely and returns home a c