{"id":4368,"date":"2019-08-20T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:01:34","slug":"honoring-its-50th-anniversary-soul-train-is-coming-to-broadway-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/honoring-its-50th-anniversary-soul-train-is-coming-to-broadway-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Its 50th Anniversary, \u2018Soul Train\u2019 Is Coming To Broadway In 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Soul Train Holdings, LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soul Train<\/i><\/b>, the celebrated music-dance variety television program that provided a platform for black artists from 1971 to 2006, is being made for Broadway. <\/b>Deadline<\/b><\/a> reports that Questlove is set to executive produce the musical with Tony Cornelius, the son of Don Cornelius, who created and hosted <\/b>Soul Train<\/i><\/b>. Set to arrive in 2021 in honor of the series\u2019 50th anniversary, the musical will shed light on the personal story and life of Don Cornelius, who died in 2012.<\/b><\/p>\n

Featuring over 20 hit songs from the era while celebrating the legacy and accomplishments of Cornelius, <\/b>Soul Train <\/i><\/b>on Broadway should be an exceptional experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWith many years of experience working directly with my father, I\u2019m forever grateful and deeply humbled by the impact <\/b>Soul Train<\/i><\/b> has had on the culture at large both here and abroad. For 37 years, and with purpose, through music, dance and style, <\/b>Soul Train<\/i><\/b> brought Love, Peace & Soul to a national audience,\u201d Tony Cornelius told Deadline.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Dominique Morisseau, left, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Camille A. Brown, Kamilah Forbes (Credit: Nicola-Goode)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The creative team behind the <\/b>Soul Train <\/i><\/b>musical will consist of three black women powerhouses: Playwright Dominique Morisseau, director Kamilah Forbes, and choreographer Camille A. Brown. <\/b>CSI<\/i><\/b> creator Anthony E. Zuiker and Live Nation Urban president Shawn Gee will also be executive producers alongside Questlove and Tony Cornelius.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The <\/b>Soul Train<\/i><\/b> legacy continues to live on today and inspire creative productions such as BET\u2019s 2019 drama series <\/b>American Soul. <\/i><\/b>The show merges fictional and real-life characters together as it narrates the inside story of Don Cornelius, and how he sacrificed all that he loves in order to pursue his dreams. Recently, it was announced that the series has been picked up for a second season. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soul Train, the celebrated music-dance variety television program that provided a platform for black artists from 1971 to 2006, is being made for Broadway. Deadline reports that Questlove is set to executive produce the musical with Tony Cornelius, the son of Don Cornelius, who created and hosted Soul Train. Set to arrive in 2021 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[31,761,760,762,51],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-featured","tag-questlove","tag-soul-train","tag-soul-train-broadway","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}