Had Enuf of the Blues is an evening of eclectic tunes and quirky characters created by Don Arrington, from 1963 to the present, performed by Don, with the lovely Louisa Bradshaw.

Characters highlighted will include a down-and-out street queen; a homicidal last little girl on the block; a pretentious penthouse survivor of the cyber currency collapse; a down-and-out burlesque agent hoping for a comeback with a one-woman chorus line; people starving but dancing (they must keep moving: there is no heat); and many other beloved denizens celebrated in the music and lyrics of Don Arrington.

Don Arrington has been a fixture of Downtown theater since the seventies, working as an actor and singer with Will Leach and John Braswell’s ETC Company of LaMaMa and with John Vaccaro in the Playhouse of the Ridiculous at La MaMa and at Theater for the New City. He has performed at numerous regional theatres and at The Delacorte Theater with The New York Shakespeare Festival and has appeared in the works of William M. Hoffman, Rosalyn Drexler, Liz Swados and Ken Bernard, among others. As a composer and playwright he has written scores of tunes and incidental music for Downtown theater, including Vaccaro’s “Juba”. He is known, in addition to other works, for his musical, “Allegros!,” musical revues “If This Ain’t It!,” “On the Block,” dance theater piece, “Without Apparent Motive,” and, with librettist Stephan Holt, the one woman opera, “I Love My Voice”. He was last seen at Pangea in his “On the Block”. He is currently preparing for production of his new full length play with music, “Cemetery Beach”.

Louisa Bradshaw is an actress, singer, songwriter and comedienne. She has worked extensively in Cabaret and musical theatre in Berlin and NYC. She met Don Arrington when she was lucky enough to get cast in his production of “If This Ain’t It” at Theater for the New City in 2010. She is excited to bring her talents to more of Don’s repertoire this March 2023! She is also very excited to work with him again and at Pangea, her favorite East Village Venue no less…XoLouisa

Dionne McClain-Freeney Composer: The Movie Star & The Mammy (Joe’s Pub), The Sugar Hill Sisters (NYMF). Composer & Lyricist: ”Not So Fair-y Tales,” ”The Beautiful Son,” Rainbow Lullaby (Broadway Records), The Harriet Holland Social Club (Movement Theatre Company), The Taming of Romeo & Juliet, Rice & Rocks (Brooklyn Children’s Theatre), Going Home: Movement of Voices (N.Y. Philharmonic’s New World Initiative), This One Girl’s Story (NC A&T, NYMF, Gayfest, GLAAD Media Award nominee). Music direction: Sweeney Todd (UNCSA), The Color Purple (Cape Fear Regional Theatre).

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