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Hey, Kenny, what’s for ‘Dinner’?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wanna get a sneak peek at one of Kenny Leon’s upcoming Broadway projects?
Tomorrow night at 7 (that’s Saturday, April 19), Todd Kreidler’s new adaptation of the classic 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” will get a free public reading at the Southwest Arts Center. The play is expected to play Broadway in the fall.
Kreidler, a playwright and August Wilson’s former dramaturg, is associate artistic director of Leon’s True Colors Theatre, which is holding its spring play-reading series this week. From these readings, the theater often selects work to produce later.
Tonight (Friday) you can catch the Alice Childress classic “Wedding Band,” directed by Andrea Frye. (Earlier this week, Kreidler directed Carson McCullers’ “A Member of the Wedding,” which is on my list of shows I’d like to see in Atlanta, and Chicago director Derrick Sanders shepherded the first public reading of Eugene Lee’s “The Rest of Me.”)
On Saturday, you can see what Kreidler and Leon are cooking up for “Dinner.”
Daring in its time, screenwriter William Rose’s film is about a white woman who brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents. (The boyfriend was played by Sidney Poitier and the mom and dad by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.) The True Colors reading will use Atlanta actors Neal Ghant in the Poitier role, Shannon Eubanks in the Hepburn role and Jim Peck in the Tracy role.
Southwest Arts Center is at 915 New Hope Road in south Atlanta. For more information: truecolorstheatre.com, 404-588-0308.
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: If you check out the reading, log back on and tell us about it. Also, who would you like to see in the roles played by Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn on Broadway?
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By MCR
April 18, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
On Hillary: quoting Harry S. Truman in the kitchen.
Recognizing the fact that Barack Obama is a very important political figure and businessman in the US… I would say: thats the last place you’ll find the chief, lady. If you like, a woman’s place in in a kitchen. Its such an up and down thing with this political quack&hackery in the press. Either she’s laughing uncontrolably or in a rage. In a usual way its begining to become a thing of crystal clearity. Losing this race is getting to the lady and it seem those happy hours ain’t so happy. Once her eyes clear up and the truth is realized, that just because Obama is winning she can say anything she likes. Face it she’s rich, ” white and hyper “. Leading by percentage points make it a real heart break even for a shot calling financier like Hillary. Call it anyway you like the figures don’t lie. Not for a slander burst hopeful, nor the rest of the sinking crew. Its no lie. Nobody is entitled to their own version of the facts. Not even Hillary Clinton. Who is Barack Obama? He is the leader, thats who and no matter how bad Mrs. Clinton belly aches about the out come of this coming election. As Jed Clampet once said… better get use to it. ‘Cause it looks like she done lost. Oh, Hillary!