00:00Shuffle Along, not many people know about it. So to be a part of bringing that history back and making people aware of the shoulders really that anybody in theater stands on, African American especially, because of what this show did and all the groundbreaking things it did, you know, integrating the orchestra for the first time.
00:23I mean just the fact that African Americans could sit in the front row or the second row or something like that. The fact that there was a love story on stage between two African American people and that was not really ever tolerated before that. The fact that it was the first Broadway show that had a jazz score, it sort of introduced syncopation and that it brought all these stars that got their start with Shuffle Along like Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson and all these amazing people.
00:49You know, you're seeing the actual show that was performed back in 1921, but you're seeing everything that happened behind the scenes. You're seeing everything that happened, how the show came to be. And then you see everything that happened as a result of the show happening. So you're getting kind of two stories for one. You're getting the show and then you're getting what happened behind the scenes.
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