Ain’t Misbehavin’ at The Rubicon Theatre

The Rubicon Theatre Company presents Ain’t Misbehavin’, directed by Wren T. Brown, featuring Yvette Cason, Rogelio Douglas, Jr., Connie Jackson, Marty Lamar, and Angela Wildflower. Winner of Tony, Drama Desk and Theatre World Awards for Best Musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’ was originally directed by Richard Maltby, Jr., with arrangement and orchestration by Luther Henderson, and book by Murray Horowitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.

It’s 1930’s Harlem, and the joint is jumpin’! Nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom are the playgrounds of high society, and dive bars on Lenox Avenue pulse with piano players banging out new tunes that are a wild mix of raucous, rowdy, and mournful. At home on the keyboard is Thomas “Fats” Waller – the big-hearted, bigger-than-life impresario and international jazz pianist who helped create and define American swing. Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical tribute to Waller’s passion for pleasure and play. The revue features a five-person, triple-threat cast performing hit songs like “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Your Feet’s Too Big,” “Black and Blue,” “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Right Myself a Letter,” “The Jitterbug Waltz,” and the title song.