Bubbling Brown Sugar tells the story of Harlem in its Golden Years. Taking many of the great songs from the era, Loften Mitchell weaves an ebullient tale of a time gone by. This high-energy musical revue, which started a whole wave of Broadway shows by and about black composers, had its beginnings at Rosetta LeNoire’s Amas Rep. It then moved on to a lengthy run on Broadway, London’s West End, and both national and European tours.

“… [a] really fizzy musical revue … recreates the night life of the 1920s — when they drank ‘scotch in teacups’ and bathtub gin — and the 1930s, from downtown speakeasies to the Savoy Ballroom and Small’s Paradise uptown … the songs here are standards, not only extolling the oeuvres of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Eubie Blake, among others, but also epitomizing their essence.” —⁠ Alvin Klein, The New York Times