Kenny Leon

Alicia Keys presents Broadway show STICK FLY

Stick Fly

Synopsis:  When the LeVay family opens its house for a weekend visit, the family ends up airing more than the drapes.

The LeVay brothers have invited the women in their lives to meet their parents at their luxurious Martha’s Vineyard summer home. Younger brother Kent, who has struggled to find direction in his life, and has issues getting along with his father, brings his fiancée Taylor, who studies insects for her vocation. Taylor was raised in a lower-middle-class household by a single mother. Unaccustomed to privilege, she is uncomfortable in the LeVays’ home, especially with Cheryl, who is filling in for her mother as the LeVays’ maid. Eldest brother Flip, a successful plastic surgeon and womanizer, brings his new girlfriend, Kimber, who is privileged, white and has spent her life appalled by her status.

Tensions flair as race, class and family become prime conversation topics. When a phone call reveals a family secret, everything unravels. By the end of the weekend, lives have been turned upside-down and a family is left to reassemble the pieces.

Alicia Keys is a producer and also created the music score for the show.

Location
Cort Theater

138 West 48th Street

New York, NY 10036

Broadway: The Mountaintop with Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett





The Mountaintop

The night before his assassination Martin Luther King retires to room 306 in Memphis's now famous Lorraine Motel having given a monumental speech in front of thousands.

When he calls room service for a cup of coffee, he gets much more than he expects from the young maid who delivers it.

The Mountaintop stars Samuel L Jackson as Martin Luther King in a thrilling portrait that makes a man of the legend - exhausted, lonely and wracked by fears for the civil rights movement which will be his historic legacy.

Venue:  BERNARD B JACOBS THEATER
242 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

Dates:  Previews from 22nd September 2011

Opening night: 13th October 2011

Audience:  Mountaintop is suitable for audiences aged 12 and upwards

Run time: tba