Hippest Trip
The Soul Train Musical
August 25th-October 8th, 2023
The Toni Rembe Theater
“Get ready for “the hippest trip in America” with the world premiere of Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical, the Broadway-bound musical based on the iconic TV show that brought Black music, dance, and style into every living room in America. Journey back to 1971’s Chicago, when Black entrepreneur and radio DJ Don Cornelius transformed the pop culture landscape by recognizing the lack of Black musical artists on television. Within a year, his local dance show went national and became one of the longest-running shows in television history. Elegant, determined, and complicated, Cornelius set trends for nearly 40 years by giving a stage—and a camera—to the artists who created the soundtrack of multiple generations, and to the dancers, including Rosie Perez and Jody Watley, who became superstars.”
Book by Dominique Morisseau
Director: Kamilah Forbes
Music Supervision, Orchestrations, & Arrangements: Kenny Seymour
Choreographer: Camille A. Brown
Associate Choreographer and Dance Consultant: Adesola Osakalumi
Associate Choreographer: Rickey Tripp
Dance Music Arranger: Zane Mark
PRESS
“That the dancing is brilliant and inventive and bursting with life feels like a pre-requisite for a show that defined dance culture over decades. But Hippest Trip meets and even exceeds that pre-requisite and moves on to post-graduate work.”
-Talkin Broadway
“Choreographer Camille A. Brown writes corporeal idioms that milk the unique expressive powers of the ankles, the shoulders, the knees. Drawing on more than 40 social dances from the 36 years “Soul Train” was on the air, she and her dancers make the lines of the body melt into liquid, then whir like engine rotors.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Thanks to Camille A. Brown’s choreography, we thrill to cascades of incredibly talented dancers…Brown skillfully blends more than 40 social dances, creating fluid and mesmerizing movements.”
-Theatrius
“mesmerizing moves span generations of dance trends and are executed with an undeniable looseness and joy”
-San Francisco Gate
“Unbelievable choreography by Camille A Brown”
-SFist
“ferociously entertaining dance numbers choreographed by Camille A. Brown”
-Theater Dogs
“Camille A. Brown’s choreography cooks with butane … the heartbeat of the show”
-KQUED
“jubilant, hyper-athletic dancing that rarely stops for breath, choreographed by the singularly inventive Camille A. Brown”
-Local News Matters
“Multiple Tony nominee Camille A. Brown’s choreography is breathtaking in its volume and complex design within its idiom.”
-The Cordell Reviews
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