In telling the story, Santiago-Hudson plays over twenty different characters based on the people who came in and out of his and Miss Rachel’s life.
This kind of woman doesn’t just hold together an extended family, she holds together her entire community with nothing but love. Many of us know this strong character from our own neighborhoods.
She ran a boarding house, but opened her doors to anyone who needed help. Lackawanna Blues is the story of Miss Rachel, “Nanny,” the woman who raised the young Ruben. Like many of us, Santiago-Hudson was raised by woman who wasn’t his mother. It is a biodrama in which Santiago-Hudson tells and embellishes the story of his own upbringing in Lackawanna, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. The story is by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, an American actor and playwright of Puerto Rican descent. The Lackawanna Blues Lackawanna Blues (BBB) Produced for the premium cable network HBO, Lackawanna Blues features a stellar supporting cast, including Delroy Lindo, Louis Gossett Jr., Rosie Perez, Jimmy Smits, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, and Ernie Hudson.Lackawanna Blues is on Broadway at the Friedman Theatre, in previews Sep 14, opening Sep 28, for a limited run to Oct 31, 2021. Ruben Junior finds a loving home amidst the colorful eccentrics in Nanny's circle of friends, but as America changes over the course of the 1950s and '60s, so does the neighborhood where Nanny and her tenants live - and not for the better. Nanny's house is full of people struggling for a fresh start in life, ranging from former convicts to recovering drug addicts, and she opens both her doors and her heart to them as they strive to make themselves better people. When Ruben Junior's parents split up, he and his mother return to Lackawanna and Nanny's rooming house with mother overworked physically and in sad shape emotionally, Nanny takes Ruben Junior under her wing, and offers him the sort of nurturing she gives all her boarders. Epatha Merkerson), whose place was a hub for the local African-American community. Ruben Junior's parents were from Lackawanna, a city in Upstate New York, and were living in a rooming house run by Nanny Crosby ( S. Ruben Junior ( Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show.
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