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Feb 17, 2023 · Fans of the 1991 film New Jack City, rejoice!Je'Caryous Johnson, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, has brought his touring stage adaptation of the Studio's classic film back to ...
Starring: Alan Payne, Treach, Big Daddy Kane and Flex Alexander. Je’Caryous Johnson’s NEW JACK CITY LIVE ON STAGE fuses the captivating thrill-a-minute story, the memorable lines everyone knows and loves and the iconic musical soundtrack of the original cult classic hit movie, New Jack City. Fans will relive the non-stop drama of one crime family bonded by blood and forged together through ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Running Time: Two hours 30 minutes including intermission. New Jack City Live plays four more performances — on November 12, 2022, at 3 pm and 8 pm and on November 13 at 3 pm and 7:30 pm — presented by Je’Caryous Johnson at the National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. Tickets ($49.75–$225) are available online or in ...
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- Why?
- Who Asked For this?
- So Errrrum, Looking at The Poster, Just Who in The Hell Is Who?
- Why Is Allen Payne in This to Begin with?
- Seriously, Based on The Poster, Who Is Nino and Who Is Gee Money?
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- The Poster Says “Same City, New struggle…” Wait, What?
I realize this sounds harsh coming out the gate, especially since I plan to see it and sound enthused about it. But I just always wonder how decisions are made to re-create these classic films as plays. Like why New Jack City? I suppose it’s super dramatic so that works, and perhaps a lot of the scenes lend themselves to rap-sung dialogue, too? Yo ...
Not my question; it’s the most constant question I’ve seen on social media since this play ended up catching folks’ attention. Me. I asked for it. Thank you.
Is Treach or Big Daddy Kane playing Nino? Either seems primed for it, though Treach has more of a menacing demeanor. Big Daddy Kane, though, is way more smooth. So maybe one is Nino and the other is Gee Money? Flex absolutely looks like he’s supposed to be the white cop, Nick, from the first movie so is Allen Payne now playing Scotty Appleton—the o...
Might be controversial but I kind of feel like once you’ve already participated in a classic, you kind of should sit out the rest of the attempts to mimic or re-create it. Unless it’s a parody, in which case, absolutely he should be there. I don’t get the impression that this is a parody.
Had to spin the block on this. Big Daddy Kane is more front and center, implying that he’s more important (and since Allen Payne is dressed like he is on salary somewhere, he can’t be playing Nino this go ’round), but I really feel like Treach could pull off Wesley Snipes’ Nino Brown better. Now, it is a play that is obviously a reimagining, which ...
The movie was set in the late ’80s and early ’90s, which fits with its theatrical release. Well, it’s 2022; the stars don’t exactly look like they’re dressed for the ’90s. Then again, the only person whose style you can glean much from is Kane. And he is definitely in a more modern-looking suit. A lot of the dialogue in the movie was true to its er...
Is it possible that they will pick up where the movie left off? For context, Nino AND Gee Money are dead when New Jack Cityends. Like, is this Nino Brown Jr. and Gee Money Jr. rebuilding the Carter, but in Harlem in 2022? That has promise. What if they’re all the offspring of the prior characters? I don’t think Nino had kids, but Gee Money probably...
Feb 18, 2023 · New Jack City Live on Stage plays February 16 to 18, 2023, presented by Je’Caryous Johnson at the National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. Tickets for February 18 are available here. Tickets for future tour dates are available here. The visionary executive producer goes behind the scenes and reveals his dreams for 'Live on ...
Nov 12, 2022 · The world renowned National Theater in Washingion D.C. was packed on Friday November 11th when a classic nineties film receives the stage play treatment in New Jack City Live On Stage. Playwright Je'Caryous Johnson is behind the project and essentially follows the film script from Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper.
May 3, 2023 · 1991's New Jack City was in many ways a watershed moment for American cinema. A bleak parable of the Reagan-era crack epidemic, Melvin Van Peebles' film was masterfully cast, with Wesley Snipes as ...
