"Leaving the Blues" dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her astonishing comeback cabaret act when she was in her eighties at The Cookery " a restaurant owned by Barney Josephson, the same nightclub impresario...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM on January 20, 2020