“Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song: A Hood Opera” Open Rehearsals at BRICstudio

Two Nights! Feb 3 & 4

Melvin Van Pee­bles
& Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber
in res­i­dence at BRICstudio

8:00 PM Work-In-Progress (rehearsal) View­ing
9:45 PM Dis­cus­sion w/ Melvin Van Pee­bles
10:00 PM Book Sign­ing & Mer­chan­dise Sales

Doors Open @ 7:45 PM
Tick­ets Details Com­ing Soon!

Join us for an unfor­get­table evening with leg­endary artist and direc­tor Melvin Van Pee­bles as he directs Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber and a large cast of actors and singers in a musi­cal stage adap­ta­tion of his ground­break­ing 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song. Expe­ri­ence a work-in-progress pre­view of the piece, ahead of its inter­na­tional pre­miere at the 2010 Sons d’hiver Fes­ti­val in Paris, fol­lowed by a post-performance dis­cus­sion with the artists.

Don’t miss this unique oppor­tu­nity to wit­ness the inti­mate process of artis­tic col­lab­o­ra­tion and cre­ative fusion that will bring to the stage one of the most influ­en­tial movies of the African-American cinema!

Melvin Van Pee­bles financed, wrote, directed, scored, and starred in the orig­i­nal film ver­sion of Sweet Sweet­back, paving the way for the suc­cess of future inde­pen­dent black films to fol­low. It tells the story of a deprived African-American man on his flight from white author­ity in satir­i­cal, real­is­tic and often humor­ous detail.

Related show

• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber
• Tour: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera) Open Rehearsals
• Date: Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 3rd 2010
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in Brook­lyn NYC, NY
• Venue: BRIC Arts
• Address: 647 Ful­ton Street
• Venue phone: 718.855.7882
• Coun­try: US
• Admis­sion: $10 gen­eral admis­sion, $8 mem­ber
• Age restric­tions: All Ages
• Box office: 718.855.7882
• Sold Out
• Notes: A work-in-progress pre­view of “Sweet Sweetback’s Bad­dass Song: A Hood Opera”, ahead of its inter­na­tional pre­miere at the 2010 Sons d’hiver Fes­ti­val in Paris, fol­lowed by a post-performance dis­cus­sion with the artists.Tick­ets go on sale Jan­u­ary 7, 2010 at 10:00am
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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber
• Tour: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera) Open Rehearsals
• Date: Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th 2010
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in Brook­lyn NYC, NY
• Venue: BRIC Arts
• Address: 647 Ful­ton Street
• Venue phone: 718.855.7882
• Coun­try: US
• Admis­sion: $10 gen­eral admis­sion, $8 mem­ber
• Age restric­tions: All Ages
• Box office: 718.855.7882
• Sold Out
• Notes: Melvin Van Pee­bles & Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in res­i­dence at BRIC­stu­dio. A work-in-progress pre­view of “Sweet Sweetback’s Bad­dass Song: A Hood Opera”, ahead of its inter­na­tional pre­miere at the 2010 Sons d’hiver Fes­ti­val in Paris, fol­lowed by a post-performance dis­cus­sion with the artists. Tick­ets go on sale Jan­u­ary 7, 2010 at 10:00am
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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber
• Tour: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera) Open Rehearsals
• Date: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 5th 2010
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in Brook­lyn NYC, NY
• Venue: BRIC Arts
• Address: 647 Ful­ton Street
• Venue phone: 718.855.7882
• Coun­try: US
• Admis­sion: $10 gen­eral admis­sion, $8 mem­ber
• Box office: 718.855.7882
• Sold Out
• Notes: A work-in-progress pre­view of “Sweet Sweetback’s Bad­dass Song: A Hood Opera”, ahead of its inter­na­tional pre­miere at the 2010 Sons d’hiver Fes­ti­val in Paris, fol­lowed by a post-performance dis­cus­sion with the artists.Tick­ets go on sale Jan­u­ary 7, 2010 at 10:00am
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