It’s 1930. Prohibition is raging. Sweet Sue, who works a thankless gig as a band leader in a Chicago nightclub says early on, “I’m sick of these cut rate Capones. I lead their bands, I hock their booze. And then I end up in the clink. Time I be my own damn boss.”
“As they run, they decide to disguise themselves as women and go on the road with us. But we don't know what they are hiding,” says Williams. “The show is about them and us going on the road and our journey.”has a dream cast and creative team in front and behind the curtain. Now playing on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, the musical is directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with a book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin, songs from Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman .
“She’s doing a difficult little dance and I think she makes it look easy,” says Williams who started singing at the age of three in a tiny tot choir in her church in Rochester, New York. “If we really look at what was going on, she is pretty remarkable. She tries not to put the weight of the time period on the girls. Sweet Sue says, ‘You're drinking! We can't be acting crazy and doing this.’ I'm a black woman leading the band across America and it's prohibition.
The morning the Tony Award nominations were announced Williams, Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee and the cast ofshow. “I was in the rest room and came up the stairs and heard people screaming,” says Williams. “I thought, we got another nomination.” And then her category came up and she heard her name. “I lost my breath and cried,” says Williams.” It was a beautiful moment. It surpassed my dreams and expectations because we all got to experience it together as a cast.
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