WORLD PREMIERE OF “I Wanna Be Evil: The Eartha Kitt Story”
May 26, 2019
June 16, Los Angeles CA – Studio C Artist and Combined Artform present “I Wanna Be Evil: The Eartha Kitt Story”, written and performed by Jenelle Lynn Randall (as Eartha Kitt) and directed by Yvans Jourdain, featuring Darrell Phillip and Music Director Ron Barnett. Opening June 16, it also plays on June 22 and June 27th as part of the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival at Theatre Asylum’s Studio C located at 6448 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90038.
Eartha Kitt (born as Eartha Mae Keith), January 17, 1927, grew up on a cotton plantation in North, South Carolina. Abandoned by her mother for being a “high yella gal”, Kitt moved to NYC where she met the Nicholas Brothers, James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Sammy Davis Jr. (to name a few) and began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Kitt, a Singer, Actress, Dancer, and Activist, is most commonly known for her 1952 smash hits “Santa Baby”. “C’est Si Bon, Uska Dara and Monotonous”. Kitt is also most famously known f