Stage actor and writer Sidney DuPont (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Trevor: The Musical) has gathered a group of Broadway and Off Broadway performers to launch “The Walkout Project,R…
,” a movement to urge the exclusive patronage of Black-owned businesses on July 4.
DuPont and a large ensemble that includes Hamilton’s Tamar Greene and Jared Dixon have recorded the new song and music video “Walkout,” dropping tomorrow on the holiday.“Black people have lived in fear,” DuPont said in a statement. “We have been methodically, systematically, and socially conditioned to make white people feel comfortable. We have done this to elevate in the workplace, for better housing opportunities, and for the basic safety of our lives and our Black children’s lives.
The project follows recent calls by Black theater artists for greater inclusion on Broadway, both onstage and within the industry and creative processes. One of the actors taking part in the video is former Hamilton star Amber Iman, who recently helped organize a three-day forum for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition calledSays DuPont, “My vision for this project has always been to say to the country and to the world one singular truth: ‘Until we’re all free, no one is free.
Producing “Walkout” is Veatrix, a Black-owned production company. The song will be released exclusively on Tidal, and the corresponding music video will be exclusively released on the official website for
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