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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Sweet Emotions: Why the Original Broadway Hunnies Returned to Jelly's Last Jam at Encores!

Playbill: Now back on the boards thanks to New York City Center Encores!, it has been 32 years since Jelly's Last Jam first tapped its way to Broadway, changing the lives of all involved in immeasurable and innumerable ways. A syncopated bio-musical chronicling the life of acclaimed jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton, the musical unfurls somewhere between heaven and hell on the eve of Morton's death.

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