Come on and do “The Skate” with Tony Award-winner Nikki M. James and the ensemble in City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017 musical theater production of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin.
With its irresistible beat that’s just flat-out fun, this song from Kirsten Childs’s funny and provocative autobiographical 2000 show was way ahead of its time in telling the story of a young woman finding her way in New York and on Broadway—navigating the politics of race and gender in search of her own identity.
