The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith

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NOW EXTENDED. Mosaic’s Season Three launches with this hit Off-Broadway musical celebration of the legendary Bessie Smith, whose life was as large and outrageous as her talent. Starring Miche Braden, reprising the role she originated Off-Broadway, The Devil’s Music re- imagines Bessie’s final electrifying evening after she and her band are turned away by a whites-only theater. This is a musical celebration not to be missed, packed with a trove of Bessie’s all-time hits—songs like “I Ain’t Got Nobody,” “St. Louis Blues, and “Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do.”

Production Information

Approximate Running Time
82 minutes

Cast

Performer
Role
Bessie Smith

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