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60 of 72 · most liked firstJust woke from a hack's nightmare: I'm holding court at a party and Wendell Pierce busts out laughing, says I just nicked dialogue from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wut? He whips out play, points to page. "You Gus-Wilson-thieving motherfucker. Fool someone who didn't go to Juilliard." Sat up sweating.
unlabelledView post →I was lucky to get to be a background actor in the Academy Award-winning film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.
unlabelledView post →Yesterday we celebrated the birth of the Queen of Jazz. Today we acknowledge the birth of the Mother of the Blues. Born as Gertrude Pridgett, you know her better as Ma Rainey. Famously memorialized in August Wilson's play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (whose birthday is tomorrow)
unlabelledView post →Chadwick Boseman Died 4 years ago today. We were just getting to see him become the actor and star he was meant to be. Beyond Black Panther. If you haven't seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" on Netflix, go watch it! 1/3
unlabelledView post →2020 MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM (Wolfe)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sturdy adaptation lifted by August Wilson's language. Strong performances all get blown away by Chadwick Boseman's posthumously released turn; he's pure electricity, a massive talent choked by understandable rage that's ultimately (and tragically) misplaced.
unlabelledView post →Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson.... Pittsburgh native, the late great playwright August Wilson was born 71. Denzel Washington famously said, "The greatest part of what's left of my career is making sure that August is taken care of."
unlabelledView post →Stills from: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) boxd.it/mLcm Black Panther (2018) boxd.it/8MHs Da 5 Bloods (2020) boxd.it/lnXw 42 (2013) boxd.it/3GBo
unlabelledView post →#OscarsMonth #filmsky #moviesky Day 22: V Viola Davis Oscar: 2017 Actress in a Supporting Role: Fences 3 Nominations: 2021 Actress in a Leading Role: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2012 Actress in a Leading Role: The Help 2009 Actress in a Supporting Role: Doubt
unlabelledView post →Oscar 4-Timer Club: Viola Davis 2008 Doubt 2011 The Help 2016 Fences (win) 2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom #filmsky 🎥📽🎬🎞
unlabelledView post →#LetsDoIt25 31 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 1927 “She created "classic blues" while portraying black life like never before. A musical innovator, she built on minstrelsy & vaudeville with comedic timing & a hybrid of the American blues traditions she encountered in her vast tours across the country.”
unlabelledView post →I like Al killing a guy for spilling wine on him bc for his exp w the music industry for AotM in '22, I'd just seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" & drew inspo from Chadwick Bozeman's character, where a lifetime of microaggs culminate in killing a guy for scuffing the nice shoes he could FINALLY afford.
unlabelledView post →This episode of Raising Fame with Chadwick's family is destroying me, and we're not even halfway through. Still cannot believe we live in this world without him. Also, 🖕🏾 The Academy for not awarding him the Oscar for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
unlabelledView post →The actual Gertrude “Ma” Rainey AKA “The Mother of the Blues” (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was a queer blues singer who began her career as a young teenager in Georgia (where a home she lived in is now a museum dedicated to her). She claimed to have created the term “the blues”. #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #MaRainey #blues
unlabelledView post →In my review of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, I note that though the film ends tragically, with Levee’s dreams destroyed, the story is really about the wider historical influences on that end. The story also tells us about the continuing un-mattering of Black life. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
unlabelledView post →The first 5 minutes of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (film) is *chef's kiss* storytelling
unlabelledView post →After the curtain call for tonight's performance of the excellent Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at @goodmantheatre.bsky.social, lead E. Faye Butler announced that cast member Matt DeCaro had died this morning and that this and all subsequent performances were dedicated to him.
unlabelledView post →The music was arranged & supervised by jazz saxophonist and musicologist Branford Marsalis, a member of the legendary Marsalis Jazz Family. You can listen to the soundtrack here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRW80bBvVD3VxViB4KYAZk0PPrTEXNp9a&si=inwME9QA87pF9F_Z) #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #BrandfordMarsalis #blues #jazz
unlabelledView post →Incredibly enough, I had never seen "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" onstage until this Goodman revival, which is . . . incredible. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
unlabelledView post →“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is almost entirely fictionalized. It’s part of the ten-play “Century Cycle” by August Wilson which is 10 plays set to depict 100yrs of Black American life and experiences. Only Ma Rainey is a real person, the others are composites of various people. #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →#LetsDoIt25 #musicchallenge Day 13, Song 1 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1927) youtu.be/cph7qZoE5d8?...
unlabelledView post →In this review of the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, I explore what it tells us about cultural appropriation, the continuing unmattering of Black life & why we cannot understand the last scene without the first scene... which isn't in the movie or our history books. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
unlabelledView post →This review of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" explores what a legacy of strange fruit means for how we view the past and the present. It asks who owns culture and suggests that we cannot understand the last scene without the first scene... which isn't in the movie. folukeafrica.com/the-other-st...
unlabelledView post →For the curious: “Black Bottom” was a popular dance in the 1920s #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM runs thru March 2. It's almost completely sold out, a handful of evening tickets are still available, give us a call at (313) 868-1347 to book your seats! ...and check out this wonderful writeup from @metrotimes.com ! www.metrotimes.com/arts/ma-rain...
unlabelledView post →“Dussie Mae” is based on blues singer Bessie Smith AKA “The Empress of the Blues” who was ~mentored~ by Ma Rainey for a while #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel 2015: Spotlight 2016: Arrival 2017: Get Out 2018: BlacKkKlansman 2019: Parasite 2020: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2021: Dune 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon 2024: Nickel Boys
unlabelledView post →I was VERY cynical in 2021 but even I assumed the Academy would give Chadwick the Oscar for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Readers they did not.
unlabelledView post →I Watched: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2000) Chadwick Boseman's final role, released after his death, was in this adaptation of an August Wilson play set during a 20s blues recording session of the real life "Mother of the Blues" Ma Rainey (Viola Davis). Fairly engrossing, I'd say. #Filmsky 📽️
unlabelledView post →The entire band (Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts) and Viola Davis learned how to play their instruments to the best of their ability for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Davis actually sings “Those Dogs of Mine” (https://youtu.be/Z7aXO0zaHEY?si=I3E-v0IE3PemUDPN) but she’s dubbed by Soul/R&B/Jazz singer-pianist Maxayn Lewis in the rest of the film #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #ViolaDavis
unlabelledView post →Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Incredible emotion by Chadwick Boseman in his final performance.
unlabelledView post →Random Movie Recommedation Day 95 & 96: Fences (2016) & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Oscar-winning adaptations of August Wilson plays starring Viola Davis.
unlabelledView post →You can read August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for free via your public library’s Libby app or here (https://archive.org/details/maraineysblackbo0000unse) #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #AugustWilson
unlabelledView post →If you want to watch a none Black Panther Chadwick Boseman movie-check out Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Netflix. Fantastic film and performance.
unlabelledView post →12 Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 13 Bukka White, Black Bottom 14 Bukka White, Bukka's Jitterbug Swing 15 Earl Hooker, You Shook Me www.mixcloud.com/Woodyroy/pur...
unlabelledView post →I saw him perform in the live version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom here in LA and dude can fuckin act AND play a mean standup bass
unlabelledView post →It's #FilmFriday & today we are going to take a look at some of the costumes from the 2020 movie "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" about the recording of the legendary "Mother of the Blues", Ma Rainey's famous song "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". #MovieCostumeHistory #FashionHistory #BlackHistory
unlabelledView post →Favorite film for each year of the 21st century. 2020: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Poor Levee walked right into a metaphor #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →I guess no one explained to Dussie Mae the role of the lead singer’s girl in the studio 👀 #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →🎶… Went out last night with a crowd of my friends / They must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men…🎶- “Prove It On Me Blues” (https://youtu.be/yRyaUcVfhak?si=k32VhtUjISMUIg70) #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →11 August 1965 – Viola Davis, 61, US actress. Oscar: Fences (2016) Three nominations: Doubt (2008) The Help (2011) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Tony Awards: King Hedley II (2001) Fences (2010) Traffic (2000) * Solaris * Scandal * How to Get Away with Murder * Widows * The Woman King (2022)
unlabelledView post →My Song of the Day... Ma Rainey "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom [78] 1927 #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph7...
unlabelledView post →Dutton was the original Levee on Broadway in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
unlabelledView post →@MatthewTitus88 yeah, from what I can tell this was all digital but cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler and director George C. Wolfe really took care to make it look classic with just the right amount of “grain” and expand it from looking like someone just pointed at camera at a stage play #MusComEnt #MaRaineysBlackBottom
unlabelledView post →New newsletter: "Some Things I've Seen Recently, Including a Pair of Squabbling Lesbians and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (Some headlines SEO-optimize themselves, no?) open.substack.com/pub/treygrah...
unlabelledView post →This is a frustratingly hard request because there's no reason there shouldn't be more of these movies. The Half of It 2020 The Watermelon Woman Black Mirror: San Junipero Saving Fave 2004 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom The Color Purple 2023 ?? Pariah Revolutionary Girl Utena I Can't Think Straight
unlabelledView post →They can't all be Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
unlabelledView post →Couldn't finish Da Five Bloods or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; felt too soon for both. I've watched Black Panther a few times since and definitely cried, but I always cry at that movie.
unlabelledView post →Viola Davis [you might know her from How To Get Away With Murder or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom] wrote a book, a memoir/biography I shall say: FINDING ME. I'm listening to it via audio and since it is fabulously read by herself you should too, it's a really meaningful one. <3 #rebcommendations #ViolaDavis #FindingMe #HowToGetAwayWithMurder #MaRaineysBlackBottom #bookstodon @thestorygraph @bookstodon
unlabelledView post →“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is based on the 1982 August Wilson play of the same name. It tells the fictionalized story of the tensions between Blues legend Ma Rainey and her Band while in a Chicago studio c. 1927 #MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #AugustWilson
unlabelledView post →Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" www.youtube.com/watch?v=cph7... #Blues #Peace
unlabelledView post →★★★★★ André Hereford calls "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" a commanding, beautifully acted production that mines August Wilson's drama for anger, laughter, and devastating tragedy. Now at Round House. www.metroweekly.com/...
unlabelledView post →★★★★★ André Hereford calls "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" a commanding, beautifully acted production that mines August Wilson's drama for anger, laughter, and devastating tragedy. Now at Round House. www.metroweekly.com/...
unlabelledView post →DMV people: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom delivers an intense theater experience, as I tried to convey in my review. Check it out at the Round House. www.washington-unbound.com/bookreviews/...
unlabelledView post →Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ... and of course, his guest appearance on SNL 🤣
unlabelledView post →It's such an incredible commitment, I have so much respect for the (now former) creative director at Center Stage for his passion. I found Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to be particularly powerful as live theater, and Radio Golf was also a very emotional performance.
unlabelledView post →He really was dedicated to his film roles and he had such great ones. Along with Black Panther, he was also fantastic in 42 and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Such a horrible way to go and it's depressing to know that he was dealing with all that. Cancer is such a nightmarish experience.
unlabelledView post →He's looking at Ma Rainey's Black Bottom?
unlabelledView post →This week's #FilmsTRIPS: Andrew and I take a look at #MaRaineysBlackBottom: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/24panelspersecond/episodes/2022-12-13T17_39_39-08_00
unlabelledView post →My late review of Ma Raineys Black Bottom from A Noise Within. #MaRaineysBlackBottom #ANoiseWithin danterants.blogspot.com/2026/09/curt...
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