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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2021)
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson’s play.
Animal actors in this production were monitored through American Humane Society’s No Animals Were Harmed® program.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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In the scene when two men approach a tent and we see two horses tied outside, two trainers crouched behind a wagon, keeping the horses on mark by holding their reins. Horses were fed and given water between takes.
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