TYA Production Pays Tribute to Kansas City Monarchs

The Theatre for Young America is revisiting plays and the players of the Negro Leagues in a musical fable called "The Monarchs of KC." The show proposes what might happen if the team were to reappear on the old field to a contemporary Kansas City family.

By Steve Walker

Kansas City, MO – One can almost smell the popcorn and the hot dogs at Theatre for Young America's salute to the Negro Leagues's most successful franchise, the Kansas City Monarchs.

The Monarchs of KC

April 20 through May 15, 2010

City Stage Theatre, Union Station

Kansas City, Missouri

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