WHERE: 7 LIVINGSTON AVE., NEW BRUNSWICK
TICKETS: $40 all seats. Children under 12 are admitted free, and get to sit on a mat close to the stage. There is a limit of one child admission per adult ticket.
Purchase online at www.CrossroadsTheatreCompany.org or call 732.545.8100.
It’s Christmas 1971 and the audience at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theatre is excitedly awaiting the start of a roof-raising holiday concert by some of Motown’s greatest artists. However, a few challenges with the talent create the setting for a little holiday magic.
The ensuing story is the basis for Holiday Jubilee 2012, Crossroads Theatre Company’s annual family-friendly musical event conceived by Sibusiso Mamba and Rick Sordelet, who is also the director of the show.
This year, Crossroads Theatre will be transformed into the legendary Apollo, filled with classic Motown sounds as it hosts this merry musical revue.
Fans will hear such classics as “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Dancing in the Streets” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” as well as traditional holiday favorites interpreted by a talented cast of performers.
Crossroads Artistic Director Marshall Jones II says the music of Motown is perfect fit for the theater company’s current season, which is focusing on different eras of American history.
Holiday Jubilee 2012 will transport audiences back to Motown’s heyday to hear the great music that propelled the careers of so many legendary artists.
“The show takes place in 1971, the year before Motown moved to Los Angeles,” Jones said. “We wanted to capture that raw feeling and excitement in the music from the Detroit days, music that helped shape a generation.”
The Holiday Jubilee has become a tradition at Crossroads.
Mamba, who wrote and starred in Crossroads’ Train to 2010, helped conceive the story for Holiday Jubilee along with Sordelet, a renowned Broadway fight choreographer, who is returning to direct Holiday Jubilee 2012.
Crossroads Theatre Company thanks its major supporters:
- American Express
- The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
- The Prudential Foundation
- Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission
- New Brunswick Cultural Center
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts
