Storyville – Location, Tickets, Reviews
The Storyville neighborhood in New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, so the legend goes.
Here we witness that legend through the eyes of Butch, an out-of-town trumpet player. He floats into Storyville to spread the love for his unique brand of music. But the residents of Storyville are apprehensive. They have their own beloved trumpeter, Hot Licks.
What the plot lacks (called “dramatically thin” by the New York Post and “flimsy” by Stage and Cinema), the music and talented actors and musicians more than make up for to produce a high energy, entertaining evening of New Orleans jazz-inspired theater.
Recommended for delighting tourists and entertaining friends.
LOCATION
The Theater at St. Peter’s
619 Lexington Avenue, NYC
RUNNING TIME
2 hours and 15 minutes, including an intermission
TICKETS
$67.50 (click here for tickets)
DATES
July 15th – August 17th, opens officially July 23rd
REVIEWS
Stage and Cinema
Into this pat den of iniquity arrives Butch “Cobra” Brown (Kyle Robert Carter), a champion bare-knuckle boxer who’s hung up his knuckles for his true passion – playing the trumpet.
New York Times
A Spirit Guide Leads an Exploration of a Devilish Place
New York Post
Nawlins flavor on-key, but a note short on plot
Time Out New York
Broadway veteran Ernestine Jackson stars in Ed Bullins and Mildred Kayden’s musical, about the birth of jazz in the seedy saloons and brothels of New Orleans in the 1910s.
Woman Around Town
This spirited musical was born in 1977 and has been produced intermittently since, presumably with evolved tinkering. The York Theatre Company’s good looking, well directed and choreographed, evocatively orchestrated production can, however, only sugar coat its innate flaws.
Curtain Up
No amount of conjuring or cutting, however, is likely to turn this now two-hours and fifteen minute musical into a smash hit. It is, however, a consistently diverting entertainment.
Theater Pizazz
Storyville – Inside the Bawdy Brothel of 1917 French Quarter
New York Theater
Storyville Review: The Bursting Birth of Jazz in NYC at Last
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Ed Bullins
Music & Lyrics by Mildred Kayden
Directed by Bill Castellino
Featuring Ernestine Jackson, D.C. Anderson, Cory Bretsch, Karen Burthwright, Kyle Robert Carter, Dameka Hayes, Michael Leonard James, Leajato Robinson, Clifton Samuels, Christopher Spaulding, Carl Wallnau, Debra Walton, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Zakiya Young