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Paradise Blue
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It’s 1949, and gentrification is threatening Detroit’s Black Bottom, the city’s historic African American neighborhood. Blue, a talented but tormented trumpeter, must decide if he wants to fight to keep his jazz joint, the Paradise Club, alive. When a mysterious woman full of secrets and ulterior motives comes into town, everything Blue thought he knew, as well as his relationships with the people at the heart of the Paradise Club, is thrown into question. Dominique Morisseau’s noir-inflected musical drama explores the price of ambition, the weight of history, and what it means to be a people fighting to find their song in a community on the brink.
Step into a world of jazz, found family, and the inspiring resilience of a community on the brink.
Paradise Blue
by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Lou Bellamy