Home Box Office, Comcast to Host Detroit Premiere Screening of HBO Films' Adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Autobiographical Play Lackawanna Blues

Home Box Office, Comcast to Host Detroit Premiere Screening of HBO Films' Adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Autobiographical Play Lackawanna Blues


Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Shelby Stone
Executive Producer


WHAT: HBO is joined by Comcast Detroit for the Detroit invitation-only
premiere screening of HBO Films' Lackawanna Blues.

The ensemble drama, the directorial debut of acclaimed Tony Award-
winning stage director George Wolfe, tells the story of Nanny and
the eclectic and eccentric group of tenants who lodge in her house.
This true story is adapted by Ruben Santiago-Hudson from his own
critically-acclaimed autobiographical play of the same name. As a
boy in the 1950s and 60s, with his parents unable to take care of
him, Ruben Jr. is essentially adopted by Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, an
African-American proprietor of a rooming house. Nanny's place is
not just walls and a roof, but a home where blacks can come up from
the south, or from their own personal hells, and get a new start.

The film will debut Saturday, February 12, 8:00 p.m. E.T.

WHO: The ensemble cast features: S. Epatha Merkerson ("Law & Order"),
Marcus Carl Franklin ("Caroline, or Change"), Mos Def (HBO's
"Something the Lord Made"), Carmen Ejogo (HBO's "Boycott"), Louis
Gossett Jr. ("Jasper, Texas"), Macy Gray ("Training Day"), Hill
Harper ("CSI: New York"), Terrence Howard (HBO's "Boycott"), Ernie
Hudson (HBO's "Oz"), Delroy Lindo ("The Cider House Rules"), Rosie
Perez (Oscar(R) nominee for "Fearless"), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (the
stage production of "Lackawanna Blues") Liev Schreiber (HBO's "RKO
281"), Henry Simmons ("NYPD Blue"), Jimmy Smits ("The West Wing"),
Patricia Wettig ("Alias"), Michael Kenneth Williams (HBO's "The
Wire"), Charlayne Woodard ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit")
and Jeffrey Wright (Golden Globe winner for HBO's "Angels in
America").

Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Shelby
Stone executive produce; Nellie Nugiel produces. The screenplay is
by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

WHEN: Tuesday, February 1, 2005
6:00 p.m. Private Cocktail and Hors D'oeuvres Reception
7:00 p.m. Doors Open
7:30 p.m. Screening

WHERE: McGregor Memorial Conference Center, Wayne State University
495 West Ferry Mall, Detroit, MI

ALL COVERING MEDIA MUST RSVP TO Cheryl Procter-Rogers, HBO, 847-318-5156


PRNewswire -- Jan. 31


Source: Home Box Office


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