Angelica Chéri — GUN AND POWDER
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We're traveling this week out of New York City to the wild west (of New Jersey) for Paper Mill Playhouse's premiere of Gun and Powder. Bookwriter and lyricist Angelica Chéri joins the podcast to talk about drawing on her own family's lore and legends to bring the story of her outlaw ancestors Martha and Mary Clarke to life. She guides listeners through the ten-year developmental process and explores what it means to represent Black women in the white male-dominated western genre. Don't miss this episode — who knows where the Clarke sisters will turn up next?
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