A machine turns Black people white in the musical 'Black No More'
An off-Broadway show, based on a 1931 novel, explores the results when a scientist charges Black people $50 each to change their race with his new invention.
A new musical inspired by a satirical Afro-futurist novel called Black No More, opens off-Broadway Tuesday, presented by the New Group. Set during the Depression, both the book and the musical examine race in America with an outrageous plot device – an inventor comes up with a machine that turns Black people white.
In a dapper suit, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought of the Roots, appears center stage to set the scene.
