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Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy 220
East
Fourth
Street
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New
York,
New
York
10009
(212) 995 8410 "Theatrical archaeologist
extraordinaire" - - Back Stage
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GIVE AND GO
Learning from Losing to the Harlem Globetrotters by Brandt Johnson February 11 - 27, 2010 An interview with Brandt: clydefitchreport (Click here to read more) "Johnson shows fantastic range with his many characters ....As today’s sports pages increasingly fill with ugly personal sagas...Billy’s story restores regard for the athlete.... Oh, and he has a sense of humor."-- nytheatre.com - Matthew Trumbull |
| Author/Performer
Brandt
Johnson
began
his
performing
career
as
a
child
before
taking
a detour to
work
as
an
investment
banker,
play
on
tour
against
the
Harlem Globetrotters, and play professional basketball in Europe.
Give
and Go is his (semi-autobiographical) story of
the
ambitious and eager Billy Tyler, whose love of basketball and dogged
discipline
earn him positions on high school and college teams—and fail to get him
a spot
in the NBA. When he applies the same
grit to Wall Street, the rewards are immediate, but the love is gone. Leaving a lucrative career in investment
banking, he returns to bank shots and finds himself on a European tour
playing against
the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. But it is there he
discovers that
true success is not about winning; it’s
about loving the game you play. Thrilled by this inspiring
and comical journey in the New York International Fringe Festival in
2007, Metropolitan is proud to bring a newly revised version of the
play back to its season of Starting Over. |
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Written and Performed by Brandt
Johnson
Directed by Ron Stetson Music by Keith "Wild Child" Middleton |
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