Paul McCartney, Pharrell Williams and more remember the Apollo in a new trailer for a doc about the historic venue
“Weaving together archival footage of music, comedy and dance performances with behind-the-scenes verité footage of the team that makes the theater run, the film features interviews with such artists as Angela Bassett, Common, Jamie Foxx, Doug E. Fresh, Savion Glover, Patti LaBelle, Paul McCartney, Smokey Robinson, and Pharrell Williams,” the documentary’s synopsis states.
“The film recounts more difficult times in the life of the Apollo such as when the theater went into bankruptcy during the Seventies. But in 1983, the theater was bought by civil rights attorney Percy Sutton, who eventually made an arrangement with the state to create a foundation and establish The Apollo as a New York City landmark. Although the building and its ownership have evolved over the years, the cultural vibrance and symbolic connotations remain consistent and grounded,” it continues.
“The Apollo is about so much more than just music, it’s about how we used music and art to lift ourselves out of oppression,“ director Roger Ross Williams previously said in a statement. “The story of the Apollo is the story of the evolution of black American identity and how it grew to become the defining cultural movement of our time.”
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