The company of Blue including "The Cosby Show"'s Phylicia Rashad (center) take their opening night bow June 28 at the Gramercy Theatre.
In Charles Randolph Wright 's Blue, the career of jazz singer Blue Williams (Michael McElroy) is followed by Peggy Clark (Rashad), the mother of a well-off African-American family who run a funeral home business in South Carolina. Blue, which premiered at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage last April (along with Randolph-Wright's Guys and Dolls), will run through Sept. 2.