'I don’t know where any of us would be without all those performances on that stage.” The Apollo: A national stage for a generation of black entertainers.
has been initiating, engaging in and framing for the Harlem community and beyond is chronicled and celebrated in the film, which is streaming on HBO.
Established in 1934 – it was a “Whites Only” burlesque hall when it first opened in 1914 – at a time when black audiences weren’t allowed in many music halls, even in their own communities to view black talent, the Apollo is synonymous with black entertainment and black excellence. Amateur Night in Harlem, which was produced by the renowned Ralph Cooper and started out as Audition Night in 1934, was the portal through which the greatest talents in music, dance and comedy walked. Ella Fitzgerald was nervous that she could not dance as well as the previous act, The Edward Sisters, who in her words, were “the dancingnest sisters, they stopped the show!” So when she made her debut at the age of 17, she decided to sing. Jimi Hendrix won an Amateur Night at the Apollo in 1964.
But while the film does have its fair share of touching remembrances and rose-colored glasses nostalgia - beautiful black and white archival footage and photographs and interviews with those who performed on its stage and those who sat in its audience - interwoven is the contemporary staged reading of
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