Thu 3/26-Sun 4/19
Even though it’s got a long, four-week run, Karamu is warning that 50% of the tickets for its next production, Jubilee, have already been sold.
Playwright/director Tazewell Thompson’s 2024 play tells the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, founded in 1871 to raise money for the Nashville HBCU Fisk University, which had been founded just five years earlier. Many of its members were formerly enslaved, yet they touring internationally, attracting acclaim and, of course, threats. The vocal group still exists, and is made up of today’s Fisk students.
Obviously, the soaring gospel music is a big part of the show’s appeal: it features more than 40 African-American spirituals, performed a cappella, letting the voices shine. Nathan Henry directs the Karamu production, with vocal arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell.
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