Ain’t Misbehavin’
The Fats Waller Musical Show
Festival Theatre
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
While it is one of the great twentienth century art forms and an instance of American culture at its most inventive and vigorous, the blues sometimes gets the blues itself. With a shift to an African aesthetic many Black Americans no longer warm to the music of oppression, some would say defeat. And the shift in sexual politics in the past twenty years has left the blues …
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The Fats Waller Musical Show
Festival Theatre
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
While it is one of the great twentienth century art forms and an instance of American culture at its most inventive and vigorous, the blues sometimes gets the blues itself. With a shift to an African aesthetic many Black Americans no longer warm to the music of oppression, some would say defeat. And the shift in sexual politics in the past twenty years has left the blues …
Continue Reading Back to top