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Starting in 2004, he began writing the book, lyrics and music (with Heidi Rodewald) for his semi-autobiographical rock musical Passing Strange, produced with the support of the Sundance Institute and The Public Theater, which won him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
Stew, who created Passing Strange, which is an autobiography of sorts, doesn't distract us with exoticism or nostalgia; his story centers on a young black man who discovers his own Americanness while growing up, first, in Los Angeles and, later, in Europe. The Youth (Daniel Breaker) is a rock-and-roll Candide — a wanderer whose innocence is ...
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Passing Strange is a 2006 rock musical by Stew. An adaptation filmed by Spike Lee was shown at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Passing Strange may also refer to: Passing Strange, a 1980 novel by Catherine Aird; Passing Strange, a 2017 novella by Ellen Klages
In collaboration with Heidi Rodewald and Stew, Dorsen created and directed the rock musical Passing Strange, a semi-fictional story about Stew's life that was co-commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater. [5] The show opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2007, and had its Broadway premiere at the Belasco Theatre ...
Domingo was born and raised as the third of four children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by his mother, Edith Bowles, and her husband in a working class household. [3] [4] [5] His mother was a homemaker and also worked at a bank, [6] while his stepfather, Clarence, sanded floors for a living.
Like last season's Passing Strange and this summer's Hair revival, this dance-intensive bio-portrait aims to be less traditional musical theater than cathartic experience, lacing its communicative passion with infectious euphoria, rebellious anger and heartfelt despair." The review added: "There perhaps could be more texture in the central ...