tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37948522272863343962024-03-13T03:58:44.897-07:00LoJoWERKz PRODUCTIONSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-75253246287129895022019-09-22T22:22:00.000-07:002020-06-16T08:19:14.457-07:00WOEFULLY SILENTYep. We’ve been woefully silent here in blogsville for too many months! It’s not because nothing is going on. It’s the opposite. Our too-few hours in the day have been getting gobbled up by three, yeah THREE major works in Development, PreProduction & Production: <span style="color: #134f5c;">ROOFLESS</span> our ground-breaking musical which is breaking more new ground as we re-construct it as a limited series for screen; a 20-year long revamp our first original musical, <span style="color: #134f5c;">A SONG OF GREENWOOD</span> (based on the events surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921) which is nearing completion and starting to make the “pitching” rounds to potential funders, producers, supporters, and potential cast & crew; and lastly, <span style="color: #134f5c;">HOTFOOT</span> our first film project, starring the incomparable international dance star, Lil Buck.<br />
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If you’ve actually sought out this blog page and read this post in whole, we have undying admiration for your support of our werkz! Seriously tho! Please stay tuned and keep your ear to the ground as these projects will hopefully, albiet gradually, come into the public light over the next 18-24 months.<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">- Some oft-asked-about LoJo casting opportunities in the Tulsa area & possibly NYC/LA for development projects: new score demos, development readings for ASOG & ROOFLESS the Series.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">- Additionally, we’ll be working with our IDENTITY SCHOOL of ACTING family (home of Letitia Wright, John Boyega, & Malachi Kirby — aka Shuri, Finn & Kunta Kinte — & many other incredible actors) as they make their indelible mark on Hollywood with the premiere year-end “Filmcase” festival which will showcase and celebrate the first group of alums from the award-winning school’s initial year of operation in Los Angeles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Progress has been silently and tenaciously taking place under the cover of our self-imposed radio silence. I'm sure it will be an unexpected surprise to most. We'll do the official unwrap of the news in the first week of January! Now if we can just keep Tagz under control for a few more days!!! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-53130017392459570392018-08-30T00:32:00.001-07:002020-06-16T08:22:41.131-07:00ROOFLESS ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">It's no coincidence that <i>ROOFLESS</i> characters Marquee and Lil Man were pulleyed down onto the TuTchT Imaging IG page last week. They dangled their limbs and their dopetitude over the cryptic hashtags "#steadybuilding and #raisingroofs." Yup, 'twas indeed a bit of visual foreshadowing. Nearly 2 years of feverish work has been silently going on down in the depths of the LoJoLab since our last Broadway trip, table reading & strategy session with the esteemed Mr Schwartz of Oz and ahhs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll have some updates and announcements before year's end. Till then, the h's of our ubiquitous "Shhhhhhhhhh" still encircle and mask our goings-on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While we're up to our creative cortex in some major stage and screen projects, our blog update game has been virtually nonexistent. We work largely in the quiet (as our current banner suggests) on new projects but TRUST, great strides are being made on our film "HOTFOOT," our flagship musical "ROOFLESS," a re-tooling of our musical "A SONG OF GREENWOOD" for a possible Centennial staging as part of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 commemoration, 2 brand new musicals, a miniseries and a handful of short films. All under wraps. So.....we're going to try to share some more of our social media posts here to keep the page from appearing so neglected while we're hard at work. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-72365412726876409972017-11-20T16:33:00.000-08:002017-12-15T22:49:25.895-08:00HOLIDAY LOCK-DOWN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Been spending 18-hrs-a-day in the dark, cramped cell-like LoJolab, faced with a pile of raw, unformed rocks waiting to be broken down into manageable chunks. Sun up to sun <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">down (and more often vice-versa if I'ma be real) I'm here, pixel-breaking pick axe in hand, writing, composing & editing like a collared maniac on a table full of films, musicals and all manner of production art. Do I get hella tired and sore sometimes? Believe dat! But do I get homesick for "life on the outside?" Never! This is home. And this is life! This imprisonment of my own choosing feels exactly like this scene from “HotFoot” (our first film, now in production) This cell is teeming with talent of the “can’t take your eyes off” variety, hazy visuals that hint at intriguing worlds beyond the bars, and brainstorms of plot twists and hair-brained schemes both of which produce an endless supply of impish grins. >:-) Decades ago, when I became aware of my purpose in life and fully embraced it, I was handed a life sentence by the Universe. And theres no where I’d rather be locked than here! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><i><i>Screen capture of HotFoot stars Sage Johnson & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lilbuckdalegend">Charles “Lil Buck” Riley</a> with a lil post production TuTchTness. S/O to our shooting squad: <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=652291240&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/AcesHighStudios" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Mike Williams</a> of Aces High Studios and <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000494656444&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/james.sims.3133" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">James Sims</a> of Blue Flame Productions & our skeleton production crew of <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1619894699&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/nita.chandlersmothers" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Nita Smothers</a>, <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1108128836&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/jillian.marie.739" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jillian Marie</a> & <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1162518034&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/jerome.johnson.7370" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jerome Johnson</a> (half of LoJoWerkz and half of Sage's parentage.)</i></i></span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-81312820754718130452017-11-01T16:13:00.000-07:002018-03-31T18:58:43.821-07:00ROOFLESS resurrection <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's been so much going on in the LoJoLab lately we haven't had much time to keep fresh posts on our social media sites. Good thing, right? hahaha. Great things in the werkz! - S/O to all our Bway fam who made it to the musical theatre superbowl this year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">…Jerome and I were 2 youngish, greenish aspiring musical playwrights hard at work on our very first book musical,</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">“A Song of Greenwood”</span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">based on the a topic that has always resonated very deeply in our souls, the events surrounding the</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.</span></b> </span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our storytelling work has taken us to many different places in the last two decades but we’ve never strayed far from the topics of exploring America’s difficult racial history and the internal and external journey of the young black male. We have chosen to stay rooted in Tulsa as our home base because we know that the richness of this historic, blood-soaked, oil-saturated soil enables our creative ideas to gestate and bloom in a unique and percipient way. The Tulsa Race Riot history has woven itself into our work, our lives, and our souls. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Big S/O to <span style="cursor: pointer;">Shari Tisdale</span>, Frances Jordan-Rakestraw, <span style="cursor: pointer;">Mechelle Brown</span>, <span style="cursor: pointer;">Hannibal B. Johnson</span>, Eddie Faye Gates, Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Dr. John Hope Franklin, <span style="cursor: pointer;">Chuck Cissel</span>, Cindy Driver, <span style="cursor: pointer;">Carmen Pettie</span>, Greenwood Cultural Center, and all those who gave us the support and the platform to spread our wings with this musical. A huge thanks as well to the hundreds of cast & crew members who helped us bring the show to life in 1998 & 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the foremost historian of the Riots, Dr. Scott Ellsworth, called </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>“A Song of Greenwood” </b></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Tulsa’s most effective effort yet to heal the wounds of the 1921 Riots,” we were not only honored, but we truly felt the weight of that mantle. Every several years, we pull the musical out again and do a round of rewrites based on the knowledge we’ve gained in our years working under the tutelage of the great Broadway luminary Stephen Schwartz. Our continued efforts to create a highly entertaining & well-crafted work of musical theatre which adds just the right balance of human Truth and overarching reflection are ongoing. We have long hoped to stage a Broadway-quality Centennial Anniversary version of the show in 2021. The workload and expense of such an undertaking are monumental and honestly, it was beginning to look unattainable… until we learned a few weeks ago that someone had been going to bat for us (totally without our knowledge) trying to secure some funding to make it possible. It is still far from certain whether we’ll be able to mount the show in 2021 or not, but this level of support from our Tulsa family is a beautiful testament to the best qualities of our fellow Tulsans! </span></span></div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-29867060673827949162016-08-17T06:32:00.001-07:002018-03-31T19:07:15.670-07:00TONY'S HISTORY PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE!<div style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-42833256033400066322016-08-11T18:09:00.002-07:002016-08-17T06:33:11.867-07:00TONY'S HISTORY - OUR TUTCHT TRIBUTE TO AN AMAZING SHIFT!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few weeks ago at the Broadway ASCAP offices we had a great private reading and critique of our musical "Roofless" with Stephen Schwartz & Michael Kerker, followed by a strategy meeting where we discussed the next step for "Roofless" and some other projects. We'll be playing everything pretty close to the vest this year but just to let you know… "Roofless" = still in production. "HotFoot" starring Lil Buck = still in production AND 2 new, very exciting musicals we've been quietly developing for years are now moving into pre-production… both adaptations, packed full of all the elements we love. That's about all we can say right now. … as we creep stealthily back into the LoJoLab. We may be quiet for a few months… but, DON'T SLEEP LoJoFam!!!! The Wheels of Creating-Fire-in-Obscurity continue to grind forth. StayTuned! (We didn't have any new artwork to drop but we found this storyboard frame from "Roofless" development oddly appropriate. hahaha.)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-86915948262143261912016-06-05T06:21:00.000-07:002018-03-31T19:29:43.015-07:00PROPS TO MALACHI KIRBY<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since "ROOTS" premiered this week I realize we've had quite a few page hits based on links from IG and blog posts from months, even years ago. I thought I should repost our Malachi reel. Additionally, here's the "Kunta" joint I created several weeks ago to help promote "Roots," followed by the acting reel we put together featuring some of his best UK work. So thrilled that our prediction (or "prophecy" if you prefer the term, lol) of stardom in the states came to pass…and humbled that it was via such a powerful and important role. Much love and continued success to Malachi!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This illustration was created in the style of Turn-of-the-Century portraits of African tribal royalty. Even before seeing "Roots" we felt this would be a profound and appropriate way to honor Malachi & his portrayal of Kunta Kinte. </span>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've been following the career of Malachi Kirby for 4 or 5 years now as he's risen from a young, unknown student actor in London to very popular presence on UK stages and screens, big and small. His upcoming journey to the shores of American consciousness will be via a project of great import and historical significance in African-American film history. He has been cast in the iconic role of young Kunte Kinte in the reboot of "Roots" (the role that launched LaVar Burton's career with an Emmy nod and secured the name Kunte Kinte as part of the cultural lexicon of our country.) Malachi stars along side a huge cast including Laurence Fishburn, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Anika Noni Rose, Derek Luke, Mekhi Phifer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers & T.I. to name just a few. Our UK fam are already familiar with him and can see him currently on the hit BBC show Jekyll & Hyde as the shapeshifting murderer Spring-Heeled Jack Burton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've had to do some spring-heeled jumping of my own through lots of hoops in order to get my hands on Malachi's UK-based work over the past 4 years, hahaha, </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but its the rewarding kind of hoop-jumping I'm always down for. To whet your appetite as we await the "Roots" premiere, here's a taste of this brother's wide range of skills: from comedy, to drama, to action, to leading man. I know we'll be seeing much, much more of Malachi Kirby on US screens in the coming years! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the key components of <i>Story Got Next</i> was a strongly structured story written to be carried by a cast of talented actors with the dancers in roles that wouldn't require acting skills beyond their reach. In short, a great story that allowed great actors to act and great dancers to dance and kept the emphasis on engaging entertainment. The lead character "Story" is a former Street Dancer who suffers a debilitating stroke (see the link to the plot above.) So the casting breakdown for the lead actor looked something like this:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male, mid 20s, with the athletic build of a Street Dancer but who, for the majority of the story, would be wheelchair-bound with limited muscle control and an inability to speak for the first half of the series. He also needed to be a romantic lead. This meant the search was on for an actor who could express a broad range of emotions with just his face, even with limited facial movement; a gravitas and street swag with a combination of vulnerability and strength; AND a strong sense of comic timing. It required an actor with an intriguing face and piercing, expressive eyes that would look great in extreme close-up. For a small, indie web-series this is a very, very tall bill to fill.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After months of searching everywhere… Long story short, I saw a still photo of Malachi through my TuTchT work with male models of color. My first thought was, "'Story' needs to look like THIS guy!" I was completely unaware that Malachi was an actor. Then for the next few hours and days, everything snowballed in a series of thrilling eureka moments as I learned more about his award-winning skills as an actor. I set out to dig up some footage. At the time (2011/12) he was a relatively unknown young actor working on stages in London with just a couple tv movies and short film credits to his name, (along with another outstanding young brother named John Boyega…yeah. Both were products of Femi Ogun's amazing Identity School of Acting in London. Nothing more thrilling than seeing the birth of superstars!) but his talent was already garnering awards and was undeniable. We have done all our own casting for nearly 20 years on shows big and small so we have seen THOUSANDS of actors and I knew after just a few minutes of watching Malachi that I was looking at a true talent with all the right skills and "it" factors in place. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the nature of "show biz" is such that we don't know if the stars will align in a way that allows "Story Got Next" to go into production, or if we'll be able to work with the talented Mr. Kirby, especially since his path will likely follow the successful progression that John Boyega has experienced. But it's still amazing to be in the position to watch his career blossom in the US as we've seen in the UK. We'll forever be supporters of Malachi Kirby and you should jump on that bandwagon too!!!</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3794852227286334396.post-69171998474971765262016-06-05T06:02:00.001-07:002016-06-05T06:49:50.477-07:00UPDATES COMING SOON<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WE HAVE BEEN VERY BUSY SINCE OUR RECENT TRIP TO BROADWAY for a critique of our show in development "Roofless" and career strategy session with our mentors Stephen Schwartz and Michael Kerker. We hope to get updates and new info posted in the coming 2 weeks! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This demo touches on only about 1/8 of the material in the show, but hopefully represents the "Roofless" flavor fully. Again… our main reason for releasing this development material is to help raise awareness of the show as part of our fundraising attempts for our upcoming LA trip where we'll take many of the performers heard here with us to perform the entire show for our mentor Stephen Schwartz, Michael Kerker of ASCAP and several other Industry folks who will critique the show & offer us their advice. So PLEASE, if you like what you hear and want to help us move the show to the next step, DONATE to our support drive. ANY AMOUNT IS GREATLY NEEDED AND EVEN MORE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BIG SHOUT OUT to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=507593885" href="https://www.facebook.com/bpriest12" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bryant Lamar</a> and 4U Media Group for recording the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1313004314" href="https://www.facebook.com/avionce.hoyles" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Avionce Hoyles</a> sessions, and Tim Kennard and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=653282954" href="https://www.facebook.com/quinton.davis5" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Quinton Davis</a>, Forrest Productions for some amazing recording sessions in 05, some of which have remained as part of the score.</span></div>
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The following performers can be heard on these demos (credited, by scene in the demo) - they have almost all offered their considerable skills without payment as we've been on this journey and our thanks to them is immeasurable and eternal! (Listed Alphabetically): <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001241892968" href="https://www.facebook.com/fredrick.custard" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Fredrick Custard</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1447620399" href="https://www.facebook.com/keith.d.daniels" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Keith Da Sneak Daniels</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=44012887" href="https://www.facebook.com/desmonddansby" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Desmond Dansby</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=617859022" href="https://www.facebook.com/kelldey" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Kelley Childers Friedberg</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1147871681" href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.fruga" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Michael Fruga</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=537420593" href="https://www.facebook.com/khalidfreeman54" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Khalid Freeman</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100008800173385" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008800173385" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Earl Burns</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=538975542" href="https://www.facebook.com/evangeline.smith.79" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Evangeline Smith</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000333973735" href="https://www.facebook.com/misha.howell1" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Misha Howell</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1313004314" href="https://www.facebook.com/avionce.hoyles" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Avionce Hoyles</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1552680372" href="https://www.facebook.com/branjae" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Branjae Jackson</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=507593885" href="https://www.facebook.com/bpriest12" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bryant Lamar</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1108128836" href="https://www.facebook.com/jillian.marie.739" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jillian Marie</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=30510460" href="https://www.facebook.com/amanda.martindale.9" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Amanda Martindale</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=677388676" href="https://www.facebook.com/adam.matta" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Adam Matta</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1134042649" href="https://www.facebook.com/sterling.matthews.52" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Sterling Matthews</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000537761819" href="https://www.facebook.com/realshtzpoetry" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Andresia Moseley</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=716353061" href="https://www.facebook.com/AnnaMariadotme" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">AnnaMaria Pasley-Horn</a>, Lawrence Rosenborough, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1407596059" href="https://www.facebook.com/Gabriel.Royal" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Gabriel Royal</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=723134147" href="https://www.facebook.com/taylar.smallwood" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Taylar Smallwood</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1619894699" href="https://www.facebook.com/nita.chandlersmothers" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Nita Chandler Smothers</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=821767995" href="https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.stefanic" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Kathryn Stefanic</a>, Rosa Thomas, and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=26401879" href="https://www.facebook.com/dwmonae" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dionne White</a>. (Composers <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1162518034" href="https://www.facebook.com/jerome.johnson.7370" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jerome Johnson</a> and <a href="http://facebook.com/LoJoWerkz">Tim Long</a> also appear extensively.)</div>
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