Island Takeover: Turning Up The Heat! Celebrating Caribbean American Heritage Month
June 17, 2024
Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month with Island Takeover: Turning Up The Heat! Join us at 54 Below for a night where artists from some of the hottest islands in the Caribbean serenade you with Broadway’s sultriest tracks. If you didn’t think musical theater could be fiery and passionate, guess again! It’s well known that Caribbeans just bring a certain something to the mix and with this group of Broadway vets and fresh on the towns, you’ll leave this night wanting more.
Hosted and produced by The Nou Collective’s Kelsey Fonise and Sabrina Victor, Island Takeover: Turning Up The Heat! will feature songs from Dreamgirls, The Wild Party, Jelly’s Last Jam, and more.
Featuring:
Zaria Aikens
Mayah Lourdes Burke (The Marvelous Wonderettes)
Jerusha Cavazos (The Prom)
Katherine George (The Cooking Project at NYTW)
Safiya Harris (Our Town, Hamlet at The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park)
Don Jeanis
Marla Louissaint (Hadestown national tour)
Wildlin Pierrevil (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical national tour)
Peyton Rowe
Laughton Royce (Jimmy Award nominee, “The Gilded Age”)
Tieisha Thomas (1776 national tour, Elf national tour)
Sabrina Victor (1776 at American Repertory Theater)
Ivan Cecil Walks
Please note that all artists and acts are subject to change at any time.