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A DC-BASED COMPANY, and at our core:
DEVELOPING AND PRODUCING ORIGINAL WORKS OF MUSIC-THEATRE,
FOSTERING THE GROWTH OF ARTISTS,
AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP
Changing the Conversation Through the Arts
DC emancipation and the vote
Thanks to all who supported our production of Voices of Zion: The Black Georgetown Cemeteries Project in May 2022. The project was very successful in its initial iteration.
We have now launched the next phase to further develop this project that we are calling DC Emancipation and The Right to Vote
and will share musical numbers from our work-in-progress on April 6 & April 16 - DC Emancipation Day!
at Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Georgetown
No story is more important, but still relatively unknown to the greater Washington community and the nation, than the story of DC Emancipation (nine months earlier than Lincoln’s Proclamation of 1863) and the subsequent national election, where the first African American males voted in Rose Park, in the then richly populated Black Georgetown neighborhood.
Read more about this project HERE.
Company member Ronald "Trey" Walton II is our composer for this new work, which will incorporate musical elements from his original work on Voices of Zion. Walton’s music draws from classical music traditions and training, but he also has an ear tuned to the rhythms and energy of today’s young audiences.
Music Director Evelyn Simpson Curenton, a nationally revered musician who is steeped in the tradition of historic Black church music, will also lead piano/vocal score workshop readings during the development period.
Several of our cast members and their characters have continued on this journey with New Music-Theatre, invested fully in sharing an important story through the transformative power of music-theatre. We are proud to have singer-actors Sheri Jackson, Djob Lyons, and Cara Schaefer, continue with us on this journey as collaborators as well as Greg Watkins and Daniel Smith who join the cast.
The opera DC Emancipation and The Vote will serve to unite our racially and economically divided city, by bringing opportunities for the community to understand more fully the historical significance of the many contributions by African Americans. Read More on our webpage HERE.
We have launched the next phase of this project and will share musical numbers from our work-in-progress. No Story is more important than that of DC Emancipation
