Amas Musical Theatre today announced the recipients of the third Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists, a juried cash and production grant given annually to support the early work and career of a deserving musical theatre librettist, commemorating the life and work of playwright/librettist Eric H. Weinberger (1950-2017), who was a Drama Desk Award nominee for Best Book of a Musical (Wanda s World), and the playwright/librettist of Class Mothers 68, which earned Pricilla Lopez a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Gabe Caruso and Sangwoo Simon Lee, 2020 graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, were selected from over 48 blind submissions for their full-length musical SETTLE DOWN: A New Hip Hop Musical. In addition to a check for $2,000 to help pay cost-of-living expenses, Mr. Caruso and Mr. Lee receive development assistance from the New Works Development Program of Amas Musical Theatre, culminating in the work being rehearsed
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Written by Danielle Chiriguayo and Amy Ta, produced by Angie Perrin
Apr. 20, 2021Hollywood MORE In “Godfather of Harlem,” Forest Whitaker plays Bumpy Johnson, a real-life crime boss from the 1960s. Photo by Myles Aronowitz/Epix.
Forest Whitaker has been in more than 75 movies including “Black Panther,” “Arrival,” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and he won an Oscar for playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.”
Now in the TV series “Godfather of Harlem,” he plays Bumpy Johnson, a real-life crime boss from the 1960s. The show follows his attempt to reclaim the power he lost to white Italian mob families while in jail. It also includes other real men of the era, such as Malcolm X, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, and Italian crime boss Vincent “the Chin” Gigante, who is Johnson’s nemesis.
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