Documentary Arts, Inc.

Documentary Arts^® Theatre

Documentary Arts has been involved with bringing three different musicals to Off-Broadway, Blind Lemon Blues, Texas in Paris, and Lonesome Blues. In addition, Documentary Arts recently produced the musical Stompin’ at the Savoy at the Delaware Theatre Company.

Stompin’ at the Savoy
by Phaedra Michelle Scott and Alan Govenar
Stompin’ at the Savoy dramatizes the early career of dance legend Norma Miller and brings the Swing Era to life on stage, energized by the beat of the street, jump roping, and the intensity of the Lindy Hop, featuring new arrangements of iconic songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, and other Big Band hits.
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Lonesome Blues
by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatundé
Lonesome Blues is the celebration of the legendary bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson: born blind, but ultimately able to express his deepest emotions through music. Discovered on a street corner in the Deep Ellum section of Dallas, Texas in 1925, Jefferson made more than 80 records over the next four years, becoming one the most prolific and influential performers of his generation and propelling the growth of rhythm and blues, soul, doo-wop, rap, and hip-hop.
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Texas in Paris
by Alan Govenar
Based on true events, Texas in Paris is the musical journey of a man and a woman — one white, one black – invited to France to perform at the Maison des Cultures du Monde. They have never met, have no professional singing experience, and face the challenge of working together and co-existing in an unfamiliar world.
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Blind Lemon Blues
by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatundé
Set in New York City in 1948 at the last recording session of the legendary Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Blues combines elements of traditional blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, doo-wop, and rap to evoke the enduring legacy of Blind Lemon Jefferson and his contemporaries, Blind Willie Johnson, Lillian Glinn, Hattie Hudson, Bobbie Cadillac, Lillian Miller, and Leadbelly himself.
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