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Final Weeks: Meet Janis Joplin’s Soulful Influences!

Sharon Catherine Brown. Photo: Earl Gibson III
Sharon Catherine Brown in ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’ by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015 (Photo: Earl Gibson III.)

*Mary Bridget Davies evokes the electric energy of the late Janis Joplin in the Pasadena Playhouse’s current production of “A Night With Janis Joplin” by Randy Johnson, who created, wrote and directed the production.

In recanting Joplin’s life and musical journey, Johnson found it fitting to note the ladies of soul who  also had an indelible impact on the iconic rock star.

Bringing those powerful performances to the stage are Sharon Catherine Brown who belts out the blues and Sylvia McCalla, who doubles as Odetta Holmes and one of the Joplinaires.

Sylvia MacCalla. Photo: Earl Gibson III  From A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015
Sylvia MacCalla. Photo: Earl Gibson III From A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015

Yvette Cason tears down the house as Aretha Franklin singing a duet with Joplin, and Jenell Lynn Randall gives her own savory dose of Etta James in “A Night With Janis Joplin.”

Yvette Cason.  Yvette Cason. Photo: Earl Gibson III  A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015
Yvette Cason. Yvette Cason. Photo: Earl Gibson III A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015
Jenelle Lynn Randall. Photo: Earl Gibson III.  A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015
Jenelle Lynn Randall. Photo: Earl Gibson III. A Night With Janis Joplin by Randy Johnson. Pasadena Playhouse 2015

Kacee Clanton also stars as Janis Joplin in selected performances of the Tony Award nominated “A Night With Janis Joplin. ”

The production is showing now through August 23, 2015.

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