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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is set in 1927. Legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and her band players convene in a Chicago studio to record a new album. As their conversation unfolds, their bantering, storytelling and arguing raise questions of race, art and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
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CAST LIST
STURDYVANT..........George Morfogen
IRVIN..........................Tuck Milligan
CUTLER......................Charles Weldon
TOLEDO......................Clarke Peters
SLOW DRAG...............Harvy Blanks
LEVEE..........................Larry Gilliard
MA RAINEY..................Ebony Jo-Ann
DUSSIE MAE.................Joniece Abbott-Pratt
POLICEMAN...................Lucas Caleb Rooney
SYLVESTER....................Jonathan Majors
With original music by Grammy-nominated composer Bill Sims, Jr.
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