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Beth Turner

BETH TURNER  

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below is a list of Beth Turner's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Come Liberty     Ode to Mariah-(A Miracle of Sunshine)     Sing On, Ms Gri     Sweet Mama Stringbean

Come Liberty

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Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Teachers, Inc., New York    1976

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Ode to Mariah-(A Miracle of Sunshine)

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Reading, Frank Silvera Writ-ers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York    1975

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Sing On, Ms Gri

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"Mansa Musa, the African ruler sum-moned up from the fourteenth century to judge a contest arising from an argument over whether Afro-Americans have maintained their heritage fully as much as native Africans-Townsend Brewster, Newsletter of the Harlem Cultural Council, vol. 2, no. 11

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Afro-American Total Theatre, Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art, New York, 1976   -

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Childrens Musical Youth Audience

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Sweet Mama Stringbean

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Aging and severely overweight, legendary stage and film star Ethel Waters is faced with a waning career and the prospect of an impoverished old age, when, a dream of a childhood spiritual awakening opens her to a new future with the Billy Graham Crusade. Ethel Waters grew up in poverty and squalor in a section of Philadelphia called Whore's Alley and later began a career in entertainment that spanned nearly 60 years throughout the depression era, Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s; and at the beginning of the television era. Sweet Mama Stringbean shows two Ethels: a wild and adventurous skinny woman able to introduce songs like 'Sweet Georgia Brown', 'Dinah', 'Am I Blue', and 'Stormy Weather'; and the older 275-pound spiritual Broadway dramatic actress who starred in 'mamba's Daughter' and 'member of the Wedding', as well as defining her life through the song 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow'
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New Federal Theater

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Musical

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