In The Boom Boom Studio

Hello JayeScribers!!!!!!  I'm here in Burbank at Will Smiths Boom Boom Studio with the cast of Phi'LA.  Phi'LA the musical is an urban story of a black Philadelphia family who moves to LA for a new beginning.  The bulk of the story is wrapped around a Black boy who falls in love for a Latin girl and the controversy that grows from that love.

I'm sitting here, in Will Smith's Boom Boom Studio, wrapping up one of the last songs for the Musical's soundtrack with fellow cast mates Grace Porter and Egbert Bernard who play Randall & Verline Jones in the musical.  Grace & I had a nice small conversation, this is what she had to say:

DANYOL: So Grace how is being in Phi'LA changed your life.

GRACE: It's a wonderful experience to meet new people and work on my craft with great people.

DANYOL: Where do you feel the play is going?

GRACE: I think it's progressively getting better with everyone working as a cast and making sure we do our best to portray a message that needs to be heard.

DANYOL: If nothing else what is the ONE thing you'd want people to get from this show?

GRACE: That Gang Violence really needs to stop.  People's race shouldn't be a reason to kill, there is no reason to kill. 

DANYOL: How has your experience been working in the Boom Boom Studio?

GRACE: I love it!!!  Just being to work and do what I love in a professional setting is amazing.  I've recorded before with doing classical music so this is totally different and it's great.  It's more my style so I'm able to be a little more comfortable. 

DANYOL: Well thank you Grace for taking this time to speak with me for The Jaye Spot.

GRACE: Thank you and I really hope everyone comes out to see the show.

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~Till Next Blog I'm Danyol Jaye from The Jaye Spot~

Phi'LA The Musical At The Nokia

So folks I'm sitting here in the dressing room of the Club Nokia and I'm feeling so blessed and inspired.  As we are going through the numbers and realizing minute by minute that Monday is closer than we know.

When asking 2 of the leads of Phi'LA The Musical, Godwin Thurton & Walter Catalan who play 2 battling gangters trying to protect their hood and their ethnic background, about their feelings of being here they had this to say:

Danyol: So Godwin how are you feeling knowing that you're opening at the Club Nokia?

Godwin: I'm ecstatic, excited and grateful.
Danyol: What are you grateful for specifically?
Godwin: For being a part of something that can help change our community.
Danyol: What is the one thing you want people to walk away from this play with?
Godwin: To know that there are issue in Los Angeles that need to be dealt with.

Danyol: What's the most exciting thing about being a part of Phi'LA The Musical?
Walter: One exciting thing is being around people that come from different places and getting to know them. Also the rush of being on the stage.
Danyol: Where do you want this play to go?
Walter: I want it to reach everybody that still have it in their mind that there's racial tension in their community.  All the urban neighborhoods that live this everyday.
Danyol: What do you want people to take from this play when they leave?
Walter: That all this racial tension is stupid and that it needs to stop before more people die.


Opening Monday, October 12th, 2009 at  8pm at the Club Nokia, those who don't take the opportunity to come see this musical will be missing an enormous part of Los Angeles history.  Filled with love, tension, social issues and positive change Phi'LA The Musical is the beginning of a new rising phenomenon.

For ticket info please visit:
http://www.clubnokia.com/
http://www.ticketmaster.com/
http://www.philathemusical.com/

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Phi'LA The Musical @ The Club Nokia

Whats going on ya'll?  Ok so I know it's been about a week since my last blog but I've been extremely busy running around trying to make things happen in life.  So for those of you who don't know (and there's no reason why you shouldn't) Phi'LA The Musical opens at the Club Nokia in ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you haven't already purchased your ticket you need to do so!!!!!

also if you would like to go to the Dorsey performances October 15th-18th then please contact me for tickets. 

For Club Nokia tickets please follow the links below
http://www.clubnokia.cpm/
http://www.ticketmaster.com/

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Phi'LA The Musical @ The Club Nokia

VERY exciting news here at The Jaye Spot!!!!  For those of you who do not know, for the past month I have been part of a musical project called Phi'LA The Musical.  It is an urban story of the black and brown issues in LA.  When an African American teen boy falls in love with a Latin teen girl, tensions rise between friends, families and each other.  A little "Romeo & Juliet" and a little "West Side Story" Phi'LA The Musical is on the RISE!!!!

October 12th this musical, which I just so happen to be the assistant choreographer for, as well as one of the ensemble cast members and understudy, is hitting the world renknown Club Nokia Theatre.  I'm asking that all of you support this musical, support this message and DEFINATELY support the teens that are working on this project.  These youth are some of the most professional actors, singers and dancers that I've worked with in my career thus far. 

Show Dates are as follows:
THE CLUB NOKIA- October 12th @ 8pm (ticket info on Club Nokia Website & TicketMaster)
DORSEY'S ICM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER- October 15th-18th @7pm (presale tickets $10)

Please come to at least one of these shows and support this movement: ONE PLAY FOR THE KIDS OF LA!!!!!

For more info on the show and tickets please follow the links below:
http://www.philathemusical.com/
http://www.clubnokia.com/
http://www.ticketmaster.com/

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