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XXXTENTACION
KIDS SEE GHOSTS
KIDS SEE GHOSTS
Presented by
wireless
‘LEONORA’
Caribbean L 38 ife, May 31–June 6, 2019 BQ
DuVernay and the rest of the
cast for the first public screening
of part one of a four-part
miniseries.
DuVernay introduced
Winfrey and an all-star cast
during a preview address to
the papered crowd – most of
whom on seeing the billionaire
broadcast mogul spontaneously
burst into applause
and a standing ovation.
Their enthusiastic greeting
spoke volumes about the role
she played in green-lighting
production of a crime story
that polarized New York when
an investment banker named
Patricia Miele was found badly
beaten in Central Park on
April 19, 1989.
“When They See Us” is the
title of the docudrama featured
through reenactments
to recall the controversial
case.
Newspaper reports all but
indicted Antron McCray, Raymond
Santana, Kairey Wise,
Kevin Richardson and Yusef
Salaam with frequent inflammatory
frontpage coverage
and damning editorials.
Assistant District Attorney,
Linda Fairstein, the lead prosecutor
tasked with sex crimes
seemed resolute in making the
case against the juveniles.
Then head of the division
despite lack of matching DNA
evidence, she seemed determined
to convict the youths
despite lack of corroborating
statements and apprehensive
support from her colleague,
ADA Elizabeth Lederer.
Reasonable doubt did not
dispel the pervasive atmosphere
of fear that overwhelmed
the city.
The fear of minorities
“wilding” through a landmark
locale demanded urgency
from Mayor Edward I Koch
and the prosecuting office
headed by DA Robert Morgenthau.
Perhaps in his effort to
make New York great again,
citizen Donald Trump placed
a full-page ad in the New York
Times newspaper in which he
damned the juveniles, professed
their guilt and called
for their execution.
have this entire cast onboard,
to bring to life this incredible
script by playwright David
Stallings.”
Nehassaiu deGannes, who
is of Dominican descent, will
appear as Leonora Hartell.
deGannes was most recently
seen at the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival in Romeo and
Juliet and Our Town. She has
also appeared Off Broadway in
“Is God Is” (Soho Rep) and “The
Balcony” (Red Bull), as well as
regionally in “Intimate Apparel”
(Shakespeare and Company)
and “Sweat” (Cleveland Playhouse).
Jamaican born David Heron
will play Dr. Mike Newell, close
friend to the Hartells. Heron’s
Off Broadway credits include
“The Winter’s Tale” (New York
Classical), “The Emperor Jones”
(Irish Rep) and his own play
“Love and Marriage and New
York City” (Billie Holiday Theatre).
He has been seen regionally
in “Romeo and Juliet” (Shakespeare
Festival St. Louis) and
“Marley — The Musical” (Baltimore
Centerstage).
Grenadian born Oneika
Philips appears as Kalisa Williams,
childhood friend to Leonora,
and has the distinction of
being the first ever actress from
her country to appear on Broadway.
She was last seen onstage
in the Broadway production of
SpongeBob SquarePants — The
Musical. Her additional Broadway
credits include “Amazing
Grace” and “Fela!” She has also
appeared in national and international
tours of Fela! and West
Side Story, and portrayed Anita
in “West Side Story on London’s
West End.”
Lisa Tharps, of Barbadian
descent, is cast as Vinisha, caregiver
to the Hartell children.
Tharps has appeared on Broadway
in “King Hedley 11” and
“Romeo and Juliet” and was seen
most recently in “The Royale” at
Geva Theatre in Rochester New
York. Her other regional credits
include “A Midsummernight’s
Dream” (Shakespeare Theatre
of DC) and “Medea” (Boston
Court). On television, she has
appeared in Marvel’s “Jessica
Jones,” “Power” and “Elementary”
among others.
Aya Spence, a successful child
actress and model of Jamaican
descent, portrays Emma
Hartell, Leonora’s daughter.
She has appeared in the television
series “A Crime To Remember”
as well as in campaigns for
Target, J.Crew and Little Marc
Jacobs.
Completing the cast are Brad
Fraizer (The Winter’s Tale Off
Broadway, Marvel’s Luke Cage
on television) as Leonora’s husband
Tristan Hartell, and James
Duke Walker (BRO at Manhattan
Repertory Theater and television’s
The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel ) as Tristan’s employee,
Shamar Campbell.
This staged reading production
of “Leonora” is sponsored
by New York City Council Member
Bill Perkins and the NYC
Council Cultural Immigrant
Initiative.
The Williams Institutional
CME Church is located at 2239
Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd.
at 132nd Street, New York, NY,
10027.
Admission to the reading is
free.
Reservations can be made at
nyclassical.org/Leonora.
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their grays. Roman women used
leeches fermented in vinegar as
a dye. Wealthy women a century
ago had servants do their
‘do’s; just 60 years ago, few people
washed their hair more than
once a week and most women did
their hair at home.
Says Bolick, America’s first hair
salon belonged to Martha Harper,
who’d inherited a secret formula
for hair growth in the late 1880s.
During Harper’s time, women
grew their hair as long as possible;
short hair was “a sign of poverty.”
For Black women, Madame
C.J. Walker’s potions and pomades
revolutionized how their hair was
styled, and she became a millionaire
for it.
In the 1950s and 60s, though,
Vidal Sassoon and Vogue magazine
made going to the salon a
thing every woman wanted to do:
getting your hair styled at a salon
was suddenly affordable, and stylists
were believe to be specialists
with skills — even though, at the
same time, people often callously
thought that styling hair was a
career for those lacking intelligence.
Today becoming a hair stylist
takes a lot of hard work, training,
and keen people skills. You’ll
have to get a certain amount of
schooling, depending on the state
in which you want to practice, and
you’ll learn the basics first, followed
by human anatomy, sanitation,
and chemistry. You’ll get tons
of hands-on experience, and if you
want to style African American
hair, you may take extra classes
before tackling a two-part licensing
test. Once you’ve done that,
says Bolick, “the sky is the limit.”
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Actress Nehassaiu deGannes will appear in the title role of
the staged reading of “Leonora.”
Hair stylist Central Park jogger
Book cover of “Becoming a
Hair Stylist” by Kate Bolick.
/Leonora
