Performance

Waiting to Exhale

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Presented at Kings Theatre, this concert program revisits the film score and songs associated with *Waiting to Exhale* (1995), Forest Whitaker’s romantic comedy-drama adapted from Terry McMillan’s novel. Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds shaped the music in a Rock/Pop register that framed the film’s portraits of friendship, divorce, and self-determination among Black women. Performed by the Waiting to Exhale ensemble, the material lands as a document of mid-1990s mainstream R&B-pop crosscurrents and the way a soundtrack could carry a film’s emotional argument. Specific NYC premiere history is not well documented, but the work’s afterlife has remained audible in the city’s radio and stage circuits.