By Darlene Donloe
Last night's opening of BeBe Winans’ Born For This: The Musical was a star-studded affair
with celebs from the world of music, theater, television and film in
attendance.
In Born For This, Detroit teenagers BeBe and
CeCe Winans experience the ultimate in culture shock when they are invited to
join Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Praise The Lord network in Pineville, North
Carolina. The Bakkers become an unlikely surrogate family as BeBe and CeCe
rapidly become the hottest stars in televangical America. Eventually crossing
over to mainstream fame, BeBe must learn to reconcile the temptations of fame
and fortune with the things he values more.
Born For This, book by
Randolph-Wright and BeBe Winans, featuring music and lyrics by BeBe Winans, is choreographed by Warren Adams and plays at the Broad through August 6. The show, directed and co-written by
Charles Randolph Wright (Motown: The Musical) premiered last year at the
Alliance Theater in Atlanta and the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
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| (l-r) Charles Randolph Wright, Berry Gordy and BeBe Winans |
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| Loretta Devine (The Carmichael Show) |
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| Garcelle Beauvais |
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Debbie Allen
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| BeBe Winans and Reginald Hudlin |
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| Actress Starletta DuPois |
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| Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo |
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| Isaiah Washington |
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| Marvin Winans, Freda Payne and BeBe Winans |
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BeBe Winans addresses the star-studded audience which included
Sidney Poitier, Stevie Wonder, James Pickens and Robert Townsend |
**all photos by Darlene Donloe
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