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What's Going On : SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING
Date posted: April 1, 2016
Posted by: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Photos/images: www.cincyplay.com
Posted by: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Photos/images: www.cincyplay.com
SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING, an exciting and inspirational new drama by playwrights Trey
Ellis and Ricardo Khan, heads to the mound to close the Playhouse’s 2015-16 Marx Theatre lineup April 23
through May 21 … just in time for baseball season in Cincinnati. Their collaboration about the Tuskegee Airmen,
Fly, was a smash Playhouse hit in 2013.
SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING finds the pitcher at the crossroads of his already legendary
career. It’s the fall of 1947, and Paige’s fame is being eclipsed by Jackie Robinson’s historic inaugural season.
Robinson was the first African-American player in the modern era to break Major League Baseball’s color line.
Paige’s team is in the midst of the unofficial end-of-season barnstorming circuit, in which all-star black and white
teams could play against each other. Bob Feller is the white pitcher he’s set to face on a rainy night in Kansas City.
Thanks to the subsequent rainout, much of the action takes place off the field in Mrs. Hopkins’ elegant African-
American boarding house, where the players congregate to wait for the mud-washed roads to become passable.
Mrs. Hopkins represents Kansas City’s cultured, successful if separate black middle class, while her teenaged
daughter Moira strains against the segregated status quo.
“The year 1947 is important because the doors were beginning to open in many ways,” says playwright Ricardo
Khan, who is also directing the Playhouse production of SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING. “The
play is generational; the older generation is looking back and is worried about how the world is going to change,
while the young people are really excited and can’t wait. Black and white, they’re all right at the threshold of that
change.
SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING is infused with music, embodied in the
character of Jazzman, an “ageless teller of stories” who helps to set the mood and provides commentary while
performing the distinctively Kansas City-style of jazz.
Tickets for SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING start at $35. Prices are subject to change, and
patrons are encouraged to buy early for the best seats at the best prices. The show is appropriate for adult and
older teenage audiences.
Tickets to SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING are on sale now. For more information, call the
Playhouse Box Office at 513-421-3888 (toll-free in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at 800-582-3208) or visit
www.cincyplay.com. Call 513-345-2248 for Telecommunications Device for the Deaf accessibility.
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Ellis and Ricardo Khan, heads to the mound to close the Playhouse’s 2015-16 Marx Theatre lineup April 23
through May 21 … just in time for baseball season in Cincinnati. Their collaboration about the Tuskegee Airmen,
Fly, was a smash Playhouse hit in 2013.
SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING finds the pitcher at the crossroads of his already legendary
career. It’s the fall of 1947, and Paige’s fame is being eclipsed by Jackie Robinson’s historic inaugural season.
Robinson was the first African-American player in the modern era to break Major League Baseball’s color line.
Paige’s team is in the midst of the unofficial end-of-season barnstorming circuit, in which all-star black and white
teams could play against each other. Bob Feller is the white pitcher he’s set to face on a rainy night in Kansas City.
Thanks to the subsequent rainout, much of the action takes place off the field in Mrs. Hopkins’ elegant African-
American boarding house, where the players congregate to wait for the mud-washed roads to become passable.
Mrs. Hopkins represents Kansas City’s cultured, successful if separate black middle class, while her teenaged
daughter Moira strains against the segregated status quo.
“The year 1947 is important because the doors were beginning to open in many ways,” says playwright Ricardo
Khan, who is also directing the Playhouse production of SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING. “The
play is generational; the older generation is looking back and is worried about how the world is going to change,
while the young people are really excited and can’t wait. Black and white, they’re all right at the threshold of that
change.
SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING is infused with music, embodied in the
character of Jazzman, an “ageless teller of stories” who helps to set the mood and provides commentary while
performing the distinctively Kansas City-style of jazz.
Tickets for SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING start at $35. Prices are subject to change, and
patrons are encouraged to buy early for the best seats at the best prices. The show is appropriate for adult and
older teenage audiences.
Tickets to SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING are on sale now. For more information, call the
Playhouse Box Office at 513-421-3888 (toll-free in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at 800-582-3208) or visit
www.cincyplay.com. Call 513-345-2248 for Telecommunications Device for the Deaf accessibility.
Got a comment on What's Going On? Click here.
Also tweet us at @AGCinspires or follow us on Facebook
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