Read Daniel Skora’s review of Meadow Brook’s “Sistas,” for It’s All Theatre
It’s a cozy little attic with dusty Christmas decorations, hat boxes stuffed with yesterday’s fashions, and, most importantly, stacks of old 45’s and 78’s scattered about. Five women enter one by one through a trap door in the ceiling of the room below. Four are African-American, one is white, but by race, by blood, by marriage, they are all sistas. The death of their mother/grandma has brought them together to sort through her belongings and to decide on a song for her farewell service that will best exemplify her life. The bonding and familial conversations that take place at that gathering, and the songs the women sing as they remember the matriarch of their family, are what “Sistas the Musical”, currently appearing at Meadow Brook Theatre, is all about.