Featuring the personalities and cultural significance of

Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Dorthy Dandridge, Lena Horne,

Josephine Baker, Mahalia Jackson, and Eartha Kitt

This tremendous theater piece offers audiences the opportunity to peer into the lives of eight women who gave unselfishly to the world some of the greatest soul-stirring music, regardless of their personal lives. These “Legendary Divas” spent their lives pleasing audiences through their music, while deep inside they were going through hell trying to fit in and be accepted as women with dreams, ambitions, needs, wants and desires.

It is imaginatively packaged in the modern day story of a beautiful 21year old young black woman (Michelle Harris) and her 23 year old Jewish boyfriend Joshua Greene. The year is 2024. Michelle is a talented artist and a graduate of New York University. Josh is in his last year of New York University Law School and is being interviewed by major New York law firms.

They met at a college social gathering. It was “love at first sight”. They are deeply devoted to each other’s lives and involved with their respective careers. Josh is on the road to success as an “A” student in both undergraduate school and law school. Michelle is a very bright young college graduate having great difficulty getting her theatrical career off the ground. She has a callback to audition for one of the great famous black singers in a show.

Joshua wishes he could help but he can’t….until he comes up with an interesting idea.

THE INTERNET!!!

He suggests that she go online and research these famous singers. Look at their videos…listen to their music. It will be a great experience for her. Michelle loves the idea.

As she begins her Internet journey the artists appears. They have discussions with each other about the trials and tribulations, they had to go through, to be recognized with the great gifts God had given them in the world of show business. The show is set to original music written by “Mickey” Stevenson.

The Musical travels back in time to meet these famous black superstars focusing on their trials, tribulations and determination …and yet it all happens in real time as the audience watches.

To enhance the story, projections take us to Paris, London, Hollywood and New York City. The Michelle character actually sends us to Detroit and adds the sounds of Motown music, too.

HERE IS A SONG THAT MICKEY CO-WROTE FOR THE GEORGE FLOYD TRADEDY. it is a very powerful song words, arrangement, visuals and performer who brought it together as though you were the one who couldn’t breathe

https://youtu.be/qf6LPgf1h-A?si=uD-HPk2O4NIVZd16

Mickey Stevenson is a member of the Song Writers Hall of Fame and was the first A&R Executive at Motown. He was intimately involved not only with the development of Martha Reeves and the Vandellas career, but also influential in discovering and developing the careers of The Four Tops, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Temptations.

Mickey also started Motown’s in-house band famously known as the “Funk Brothers,” and was always on the look-out for young writers who he brought to Motown including Ron Milner (originally a pizza salesman in Chicago) who went on to write the mega-hit, “For Once In My Life” — which both Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennet made famous.

Mickey Stevenson’s own “Dancing in the Streets” remains a pop classic that not only Martha and the Vandellas recorded but so did The Mamma & the Papas, David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Little Richard, The Grateful Dead and The Carpenters.

Without a doubt, Mickey Stevenson’s talent and pioneering impact on the music industry will be felt in spaces and places for many years to come

#mickeystevenson #singitfromtheheart #motown #a&rman #music #soulmusic #BessieSmith #BillieHoliday #DinahWashington #DorthyDandridge #LenaHorne #JosephineBaker #MahaliaJackson #EarthaKitt #motownmusic

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The Bob Dorough Trio

Good News speaks to the Legendary Bob Dorough  at Pescatore , see below, details —Jazz, Swing and a little nostalgia of “Schoolhouse Rock” Anything this “perennial hipster” is original!

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WHEN:           Thursday, October 18

11:30 a.m. (Reception),

Noon – 2:30 p.m. (Luncheon and Awards Ceremony)

WHERE:         The Starlight Roof (18th Floor)

Waldorf Astoria Hotel

301 Park Avenue (Between 49th and 50th Streets), New York City

The national Library of American Broadcasting will present its Tenth Annual GIANTS OF BROADCASTING Awards at a ceremony and luncheon to be held on October 18, 2012 in New York City. The event, attended by prominent members of the broadcasting, media and corporate communities, serves as a tribute to those individuals who have played pivotal roles in creating and advancing the electronic arts. The distinguished honorees join 140 GIANTS OF BROADCASTING who have been honored by the Library since 2003. BILL BAKER, president emeritus of WNET New York and himself a Giant of Broadcasting, will serve as master of ceremonies.

HONOREES:   Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman of the Sony Corporation

Ted Turner, Media Mogul and Creator of CNN, TBS, TNT, Philanthropist

Norman Lear, Writer-Producer of All in the family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son

Robert Macneil and Jim Lehrer, Creators and Anchors of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,

George Beasley, Chairman, CEO and Founder of Beasley Broadcast Group

Don Cornelius, Creator, Host and Producer of nationally syndicated Soul Train

Erica Farber, President and CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau

Andy Rooney from CBS’ 60 Minutes

Dinah Shore, Singer, Actress and Television Personality

Library of American Broadcasting

The LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING (LAB) — located at the University of Maryland — is entering its 41st year serving as the national information resource for the radio and television industries and the academic communities that rely upon it for depth and expertise. Its collections of historic documents, professional papers, oral and video histories, books and photographs are among the nation’s most extensive. LAB is evolving from a conventional library into a “homepage” for the world at large, reaching thousands simultaneously through the Internet. Industry outreach includes lectures, symposia, print and the broadcast media themselves.

The Library has been honoring leaders in the broadcasting industry annually since 2003 — its list of Giants will now exceed 149. Previous honorees include industry founders Guglielmo Marconi, David Sarnoff of RCA and NBC, William S. Paley and Frank Stanton of CBS, Leonard Goldenson of ABC, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Philo Farnsworth, H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Arthur Godfrey, Paul Harvey, Charlie Rose, Ken Burns, Johnny Carson, Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Christiane Amanpour, Lowry Mays and Tim Russert.

LAB’s chair is Virginia Hubbard Morris, president of Hubbard Radio, based in Minneapolis-St. Paul; the president/CEO is Donald West, veteran broadcast journalist and former assistant to the president of CBS Inc.; the dean of libraries at the University of Maryland is Patricia Steele, and the curator is Chuck Howell.

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