Lookingglass Theatre: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting"

Date: February 4, 2012

Lookingglass Theatre: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting"

January 4, 2012 - February 19, 2012

Lookingglass Theatre
821 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
312-337-0665

April 9, 1947
Baseball’s Opening Day is one week away, and Branch Rickey, General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, will call up Jackie Robinson to break the color-barrier and play as the Major League’s first black ballplayer. If he agrees, Robinson will face loud and heated opposition from virtually every owner, manager, and player in baseball – and it won’t be a cakewalk with the fans, either. Who will be his allies be if he makes the most daring and important play of his life?

Award-winning Ensemble Member J. Nicole Brooks (Black Diamond, Fedra: Queen of Haiti) directs this dazzling fast-ball script by Ed Schmidt. When 1947’s biggest African American personalities – baseball great-to-be Jackie Robinson, boxer Joe Louis, entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, actor and activist Paul Robeson – meet, ideas and ideals clash and sparks fly, and America’s national pastime will never be the same.

For tickets log onto www.lookingglasstheatre.org or call 312-337-0665.

You can also visit the event's website at: lookingglasstheatre.org/content/box_office/mr_rickey_calls_a_meeting

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