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“Yellowjackets” composers Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker jumped at the chance to write the original music and lyrics contender “Sit Right Down”

Artistic Director creates a revue built around longtime Troupe member Leon S. Pitts II and celebrating the music of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.

I don't know how old the Barrington Stage in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (in the Berkshires) is, but it cannot possibly ever have jumped as wildly as it has been jumping, up and down, back and forth, in the current production of Ain't Misbehavin, the musical about composer Fats Waller and his Harlem Renaissance music. This is a whopping good musical, a jewel in the crown of musical theater in America, and at the Barrington Stage, in the Berkshires, where so many New Jersey residents vacation, it is just terrific.

It would be a logical guess that the toughest problem for Richard Maltby, Jr, when he was creating “Ain’t Misbehavin’”was deciding which of the over 400 songs Fats Waller wrote should be included in the musical revue.