Performance

Waiting to Exhale

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First released in 1995, *Waiting to Exhale* brought Terry McMillan’s novel to the screen through Forest Whitaker’s direction and a cast led by Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. Its Rock/Pop score, written by Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, helped define the film’s emotional architecture, pairing radio-ready songcraft with narrative weight. At Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, the Waiting to Exhale ensemble performs the music as a concert work, shifting attention from plot to phrasing and groove. One clear legacy remains: the soundtrack functioned as a public record of Black women’s interior lives in mainstream ’90s cinema.