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Raisin is a musical with music by Judd Woldin, lyrics by Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. It is an adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun; the musical's book was co-written by Hansberry's husband, Robert Nemiroff. The story concerns an African-American family in Chicago in 1951.
A musical version of the play, Raisin, ran on Broadway from October 18, 1973, to December 7, 1975. The book of the musical, which stayed close to the play, was written by Hansberry's former husband, Robert Nemiroff. Music and lyrics were by Judd Woldin and Robert Brittan.
The concept was created by advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB) for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when one of the writers, Seth Werner (at the time with FCB in San Francisco) came up with an idea for the new raisin commercial, saying, "We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'" (the 1968 song ...
There they would begin work on a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin In The Sun. The result was Raisin . It premiered May 30, 1973 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and would move to Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on October 18, 1973, transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on January 13, 1975, and closed on ...
In Skylight Music Theatre's production of the musical 'Raisin,' Camara Stampley plays Beneatha, a college student with "a limited filter." While set in the 1950s, the musical 'Raisin' speaks to ...
Hansberry's screenplay of A Raisin in the Sun was produced by Columbia Pictures and released in 1961. The film starred Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, and was directed by Daniel Petrie. [47] In 1961, Hansberry was set to replace Vinnette Carroll as the director of the musical Kicks and Co, after its try-out at Chicago's McCormick Place.
Carter started on Broadway at just nine years old in the musical The Me Nobody Knows.After runs in Tough To Get Help, Dude and Via Galactica, [3] he landed his breakout role as Travis Younger in Raisin, for which he won the 1973 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer as well as the 1974 Theatre World Award and a nomination for the 1974 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
A raisin is a dried grape. Raisin may also refer to: Raisin (surname) Raisin (musical), musical version of the play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry "Raisins" (South Park), a 2003 episode of South Park; Raisin, former name of Raisin City, California; Raisin Charter Township, Michigan