Tonight on PBS, Passing Strange, the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical, will be making its broadcast debut tonight at 9 p.m. (or on Friday at 2 a.m.). The film was directed by Spike Lee and according to PBS, "Passing Strange is the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s Los Angeles to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls “the real.” There he finds he can exploit a “South Central” persona, playing the cool, black expatriate-musician who speaks for his people. Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, politics and art find him in a far-out Amsterdam and a hyper-militant Berlin. But in the end, he discovers that cultural complexity—and hypocrisy—are not limited to middle-class African American life, and that while to him art may be more real than life, only love is truly more than real. Co-starring with Stew as ‘Narrator’ is an extraordinarily talented ensemble cast, featuring DeAdre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Daniel Breaker as the story’s central character, ‘Youth.’"
I hope you enjoy!
For more information, check here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/passing-strange/preview-the-rock-musical/903/
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