Readings of Now Let Me Fly in Kansas
Independence
Date/Time: Monday, May 17, 2004 at 7:00 pm
Facility/Location: Inge Theatre, Independence Community College
Address: College Ave. & Brookside Dr.
Organization: In cooperation with ICC.
Contact: Jim Fischer
Tentative readers include a former Chair of the Kansas Human Rights Commission, a middle school principal, and two or three Independence Community College staff and faculty members.
Kansas City -- This reading is private
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Kansas City
Date/Time: Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 6:15 pm
Facility/Location: Kansas City Kansas Community College- Performing Arts Center
Address: 7250 State Avenue
Organization: Say I Am Productions & National Park Service
Email: sayiamproductions [at] yahoo.com
There will be additional perfomances on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 9:15 am. and 11:45 a.m. and on Friday, May 10, 2013, at 11:45 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. All performances are free to the public. School groups are encouraged to attend the early performances.
McPherson
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 3:00 pm
Facility/Location: Miller Library, McPherson College
Address: 1600 E. Euclid
Contact: Susan Taylor
Phone: 620-241-0731 Email: library [at] mcpherson.edu
Meriden -- This reading is private
Date/Time: Friday, October 5, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Topeka -- This reading is private
Date/Time: Thursday, May 13, 2004 at 8:00 am
Contact: Stacey C. Kramer
Phone: 7852953683 Email: skramer1 [at] topeka.k12.ks.us
Topeka
Date/Time: Monday, May 17, 2004 at 7:00 pm
Facility/Location: Topeka Performing Arts Center
Address: 214 SE 8th St.
Organization: Brown Foundation/Washburn University
Website: anationacts.brownvboard.org/topeka/
The Topeka reading was the culmination of events associated with the dedication of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site at the Monroe School.
Topeka -- This reading is private
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 9:00 am
Topeka
Date/Time: Friday, February 4, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Facility/Location: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Address: 1515 SE Monroe St.
Organization: Brown Foundation
Performed February 4 and 5, 2005. CAST: Jeanne Averill (Mrs. Gates, Reporter #1); Trish Averill (Eleanor Thompkins, Lousia Holt); Diane Bulan (Cissy Suyat); Karmello Brooks Coleman (Sarah Bulah, Lucinda Todd); George Forbes (Thurgood Marshall); Novotny Lawrence (Reporter #3, Silas Fleming, Rev. Martin Luther Kilson, Charles Scott); Byron Myrick (Woody, Kenneth Clark, McKinley Burnett); Granville O'Neal (Gardner "Bish" Bishop, Oliver Brown, Matthew Whitehead, Rev. J.A. Delaine); Larry Peterson (Reporter #2, Mr. Thompkins, Frederic Wertham, Man with gas can, James Nabrit); Debra Washington (Barbara Johns); Harvey Williams (Charles Houston). MUSICAL PERFORMERS: Queen Bey (vocals); Kelley Hunt (vocals, piano); Al Berman (bass); Michael Caputy (drums).