Bobby Norfolk was driving somewhere in 2009 when stopped him in his tracks. He remembers the as "the most compelling hour of listening" he's ever experienced. Tye's started Norfolk on a journey that's culminated in his latest one man show,
Produced by Beverly Buck Brennan, "Shadowball" is a journey through the heyday of the Negro Baseball Leagues, described on as "a time when this country was segregated by Jim Crow laws, and America鈥檚 鈥淣ational Pastime鈥� wore two faces." Norfolk portrays James "Cool Papa" Bell, of the St. Louis Stars and Leroy "Satchel" Paige, of the Kansas City Monarchs, switching between the two voices to tell the story of their lives.
Norfolk bills the show as a "living history performance" :
I'm not a baseball aficionado, but I am a student of history. 听I also have a background in stand-up comedy. 听So it becomes a historical program with a lot of comic relief.听
You can catch "Shadowball" at 3pm this Sunday at the Beverly Brennan will also preform her cabaret show "St. Louie Woman."
If wasn't enough of a preview, here's another sneak peak: