A new music-focused theatrical work about the friendship between go-go great Chuck Brown and singer Eva Cassidy, will open in DC next June.
at the end of the month. “We’re really excited to be able to end the season with something that’s really of, about, for, from this community,” says Tim Nelson, the artistic director of IN Series.
As an opera-focused nonprofit arts organization, IN Series often presents European work rather than local stories, Nelson says, but the group has been looking to produce more DC-oriented shows. When Nelson discovered Brown and Cassidy’s album, which includes music from the Great American Songbook, he looked to Hopkinson—who is also the co-founder of—as someone who could tell Brown and Cassidy’s story. “It’s a rare fusion of scholarship with music and practice,” Nelson says.
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