Davone Tines talks the production "The Black Clown" | Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon - 5.5.26

Davóne Tines is a bass-baritone singer who is the music supervisor of an upcoming production, “The Black Clown”. This production is based on the poetry of Langston Hughes, a defining voice in jazz poetry and a central figure during the Harlem Renaissance. This production will run from May 14th-17th @ The Miller Theater. https://alsoanoperasinger.org/homepage This music theater experience fuses vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals to bring Hughes’ verse to life onstage. Deemed a 2019 NYT “Critics’ Pick,” with former productions praised as “an electrifyingly ambivalent whole” and “exquisitely layered” by The New York Times, The Black Clown animates and colors a Black man’s resilience in the face of oppression." Davóne joins the show to further discuss his role in "The Black Clown".