Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
Opening Night: July 26, 2017
Closing: July 27, 2017
Theater: New York City Center
Kirsten Childs’ delightful, provocative, and incredibly moving 2000 musical is about a young African-American dancer named Viveca (Nikki M. James) who finds her way from West Coast suburbia to Broadway, all while navigating the politics of race and gender in an attempt to uncover her own identity. With a deceptively fun and catchy score, and a wickedly satirical take on the lives of Broadway dancers, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin deserves to be seen again.
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July 27, 2017
Little on New York stages right now is as much flat-out fun as “The Skate,” a “let’s learn a new dance” number in the middle of the first act of “The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin.” Nor is there a lot that’s as much fun as the show itself, a musical by Kirsten Childs that began a two-performance run on Wednesday evening as part of this summer’s Encores! Off-Center series. “Bubbly Black Girl,” originally produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2000, has lost nothing of its high spirits — or, sadly, of its relevance.
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