Fans love it. Critics don’t. After Tyler Perry, can urban theater cross over? -10
Taking a higher road "She better act!" shouted one patron
at the end of a seminal monologue
by LeToya Luckett, an actress and
former Destiny's Child member who
starred as Frankie in "Set It Off:
Live on Stage." No one shushed the loud
theatergoer. If anything, everyone
agreed. Luckett was acting her butt
off, delivering a fiery speech about
working to the bone at a bank that
had just fired her. The audience, many of whom were
familiar with the 1996 film starring Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise,
seemed entirely unconcerned with
philosophical questions about the
nature of art as they took in the
stage adaptation. They were too busy cackling and ummhmming and
enjoying each other in general.Washington post
at the end of a seminal monologue
by LeToya Luckett, an actress and
former Destiny's Child member who
starred as Frankie in "Set It Off:
Live on Stage." No one shushed the loud
theatergoer. If anything, everyone
agreed. Luckett was acting her butt
off, delivering a fiery speech about
working to the bone at a bank that
had just fired her. The audience, many of whom were
familiar with the 1996 film starring Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise,
seemed entirely unconcerned with
philosophical questions about the
nature of art as they took in the
stage adaptation. They were too busy cackling and ummhmming and
enjoying each other in general.Washington post
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