WHEN HEAVEN LIVED ON 7^th STREET

Oaktown Blue is more than just a Poem, more than just another choreographed Play full of hundred dollar clichés about Oakland. Oaktown Blue is a poetic dance, a musical theater piece (with or without the theater), about the beauty of Oakland.  The amazing, remarkable, unsung history of a forgotten West Oakland.  Oaktown Blue is a Hymn, a modern day Praise Song of a not so long ago time when West Oakland was economically & culturally “the only place to be”.  7th Street was Heaven.  Oaktown Blue is also a story of days when the California Hotel was our regal cross town playground, our very own Hilton & was rocking every night with Dancehalls full of Blues Concerts & Mambo Sessions.  It's a theatrical tale about the coming together of disoriented Black Share Croppers, lonely imported Filipino men, Black entrepreneurs, Latin Dancers, Masons, intellectuals & slicksters. Oakland was a West Coast Blues Mecca.  Oaktown Blue is a love Poem. This is my way of saying thank you to all those Spirits that still roam up & down 7th Street.  If you really listen, you're gonna hear them singing wildly & moaning like a homesick whisper in the night wind.  Can you hear them?  Oaktown Blue is all about you!

Avotcja-Writer/Director
Oaktown Blue - Coming To A Theater Near You - As Soon As You Hire Us!

Photos of OAKTOWN BLUE
by Kimara
Email: kimara@earthlink.net