Bad Baby

Playwright Aaron Jafferis and composers Dahlak Brathwaite and Daniel Bernard Roumain collaborate with five actor/rapper/singers to create a musical (about white people) to end all musicals (about white people).

A simple question - who should inherit the family house when Aaron's parents die - ignites a wild argument between Aaron's blue-collar white cousins, his dynamite-wielding Slovak ancestor, his Black chosen family, and his ever-lovin parents. To figure out what his newborn baby should inherit, Aaron and friends follow the money to its source, and excavate the buried stories of all three halves of his family. Marrying the hip-hop Aaron grew up with to the classical violin and Appalachian fiddle tunes of his ancestors, Bad Baby’s music births a sound old enough to crack the links between race and money, and new enough to lay bare the raw hearts beneath. To thump the audience’s raw hearts, poem-writing and dance breaks bump and grind Aaron’s race and class issues with yours.