ONE MO' TIME! Conceived and Directed by Vernel Bagneris
They may have to replace the roof of Manhattan's Village Gate Downstairs any night. A joyful noise is pounding at the rafters. A quartet of performers (three women and one man) are singing, dancing and strutting their flammable stuff, aided and abetted by an onstage jazz combo that is pistol hot.
Billed as "an evening of 1920s black vaudeville," the show is a kind of nostalgic tribute to black performers who toured the pre-Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and...
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