Lillias White sings “Home,” at the BC/EFA’s Gypsy of the Year at The New Amsterdam Theatre in New York on December 9, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang
The York Theatre Company, in association with Everyday Songs, is presenting the world premiere of the new musical play, Texas in Paris, written by Alan Govenar with spirituals, cowboy songs and country hymns, starring Tony award-winner Lillias White (Fela!, The Life) with Scott Wakefield (Hands on a Hardbody).
The Tuesday, January 27 preview of Texas in Paris was delayed due to the blizzard, but performances will begin Wednesday, January 28 at 8:00 p.m. for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 1, 2015 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Opening Night is Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Akin Babatundé (Blind Lemon Blues) directs this two character play based on true events. Texas in Paris is the musical journey of a man and a woman — one white, one black – invited to France to perform at the Maison des Cultures du Monde. They have never met, have no professional singing experience, and face the challenge of working together and co-existing in an unfamiliar world. Apprehensive of each other, they struggle with preconceptions but forge a surprising spiritual bond that transforms their on-stage performance and their lives. With music supervision by Amy Jones.
Performance Schedule
Tuesday 7pm | Wednesday – Friday 8pm
Saturday 2:30 pm & 8pm | Sunday 2:30 pm
Audience discussions follow each matinee.
Check out the discount ticket codes below.
$36 tickets with code TEXAS1*
All performances January 27 – February 4
$46 tickets with code TEXAS2*
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday performances
February 6 – March 1
$56 tickets with code TEXAS3*
Friday, Saturday, Sunday performances
February 6 – March 1
*Regular ticket price $67.50
TO PURCHASE TICKETS
Online: Visit www.yorktheatre.org and enter a discount offer code. Phone: Call 212.935.5820 and mention a discount offer code.
In Person: Present a printout of this offer at The York Theatre Box Office, Theatre at St. Peter’s 619 Lexington Avenue @ 54th Street.
For groups 10+ Contact Marcia Pendelton at 646-467-7393 or by email at marcia@walktallgirlproductions.com.
Lillias White, Elain Graham and Billy Porter after a performance of Porter’s While I Yet Live at The Duke Theater on October 30, 2014. Photo by Lia Chang
Lillias White made her Broadway debut in 1981 with the company of Barnum. Later that year, she understudied the role of Effie in the original 1981 production of Dreamgirls, going on to play the role in the 1987 revival. She won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards for her role in Cy Coleman’s The Life. White has also appeared on Broadway in Cats, Carrie, Once on this Island, How to Succeed…, Chicago, and Fela!. Selected Off-Broadway credits include the Public Theater production of the William Finn musical Romance in Hard Times, for which she won the Obie Award, Dinah Was at the Gramercy Theatre as singer Dinah Washington, and Second Stage Theatre’s Crowns, for which she won the AUDELCO Award. White’s concert performances include Funny Girl, Hair, Dreamgirls, and South Pacific. She has appeared in concert at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center and has toured internationally with her one-woman show, From Brooklyn to Broadway. White won an Emmy for her work on “Sesame Street” and can be heard in Anastasia and Disney’s Hercules. Last Fall, she appeared in Primary Stages’ World Premiere of While I Yet Live by the Tony-winning star of Kinky Boots and Angels in America, Billy Porter, at The Duke on 42nd. Directed by Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller, the cast also featured Elain Graham, Emmy Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson, Kevyn Morrow, Sharon Washington and Larry Powell.
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Lia Chang is an actor, a performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia starred as Carole Barbara in Lorey Hayes’ Power Play at the 2013 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., with Pauletta Pearson Washington, Roscoe Orman, and made her jazz vocalist debut in Rome Neal’s Banana Puddin’ Jazz “LADY” at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York. She is profiled in Jade Magazine.
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