Friday, a sold-out show titled “Out West: Women of the Plains” will be presented at the center at 8 p.m. Shelli Boone’s self-written and self-produced one-woman show features depictions of seven women struggling to survive during the movement West in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Both monologue and music are incorporated into the show to present the various characters — Juliet, a slave from Illinois who won her case to reclaim her three children from her owner; Maria Rita Valdez, an Afro-Latina widow of a Spanish soldier who was the first owner of what is now Beverly Hills; Lola Montez, a prostitute who never married and is sick from an unknown illness; Cathy Williams, who served as a man in the Buffalo Soldiers for two years before being found out as a woman; Clara Brown, the first black woman to reach the Colorado gold fields; Georgia Williams, a 20-year-old mail-order bride from Virginia who is not happy with her husband; and Elisabeth Coleman, the first African-American, male or female, to become an aviator.
Toronto Escorts: Celebrating black history
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