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ON THE LEVEE Cast & Creative Team Interviews

Posted 6/24 - Prop Master Sarah Bird discusses her research into the period and reveals some secrets of the ON THE LEVEE props.

2 hours, 15 minutes

Based on a true story, ON THE LEVEE is a play with music that revisits the Greenville, Mississippi flood of 1927, the worst in U.S. history before Hurricane Katrina. At the heart of the story are two fathers (a white cotton farmer and an African-American bootblack) and their sons.

Show art by Kara Walker, photographed by Jason Wyche.

• Amari Cheatom , Brian D. Coats , Chuck Cooper , Maria Couch , Harriett D. Foy , Dion Graham , April Matthis , Jacob Ming-Trent , Seth Numrich , Stephen Plunkett , Michael Siberry , Shelley Thomas

• Play by

  Marcus Gardley

• Music and Lyrics by

  Todd Almond

• Conceived and Directed by

  Lear deBessonet

• Art by

  Kara Walker

• Sets by

  Peter Ksander

• Costumes by

  Emily Rebholz

• Lighting by

  Justin Townsend

• Sound by

  Leon Rothenberg

• Orchestrations by

  Todd Almond

• Projections by

  Jeremiah Thies

• Movement by

  Tracy Bersley