Fans love it. Critics don’t. After Tyler Perry, can urban theater cross over? -11

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Those kinds of outbursts both
endear fans of the genre and irk
artists like D.C.-based playwright
Raquis Petree, who for nearly a
decade worked on his own
adaptation of the movie called "Set It Off: The Musical" — not to be
confused with "Set It Off: Live on
Stage," produced by circuit
heavyweight Je'Caryous Johnson. Petree dreamed that his version of
"Set It Off" would be a "bridge"
connecting the urban theater
audience to the legitimacy of
Broadway. Its themes of female
empowerment and #BlackLivesMatter poignancy struck
him as particularly salient and prone
to crossover. Instead, the circuit's
version of "Set It Off" plays for
cheap laughs, he says. "It's time for our audience to grow
up," says Petree, who has several
urban productions under his belt. "I
think that they're ready to go a little
higher." Other stories starring African
Americans have been big hits on
Broadway: "Hamilton," "The Color
Purple" and "Motown: The Musical."-Washingtonpost

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