Y-Leaderboard: KSM shares how perseverance took him a step close to broadway

Internationally-recognized Ghanaian actor/satirist and show host, Kweku Sintim-Misa, has shared an interesting series of events that he encountered after a performance of his show titled ’Thoughts of a confused black man’.
The play, according to him, was about a black man who had gone to America, had interactions with African-Americans and had realized that there was something similar between the two of them.
Further into this conversation with Rev. Erskine on YFM’s Y-Leaderboard Series, he revealed that the first time he performed this was at a church in Brooklyn called House of the Lord church which was headed by one radical pastor, Rev. Daughtry.
After the performance at the church, he booked a small theatre which took about 150 people and that was where he was set to perform his ‘Thoughts of a confused black man’ next, after his first performance at the church successfully received a positive reaction from the audience.
KSM narrated, “This place was so bad that on the night of the performance, I had to make sure I get there with some good Ghanaian friends to go and clean the toilets, get toilet roll and I had to buy my own lights for the stage lighting. That’s how bad the theatre was”.
However, fortunately, or unfortunately, “That evening, it had really snowed and it was very cold. This cold night, I was backstage preparing when the stage manager came and said Kweku, there are only two people out there and they say because it’s so cold and because it’s only them if I decide that I want to cancel, they’re okay. They’ll take their monies and go”.
The satirist, highly appreciative of his little crowd for coming through the cold just to see him perform, went ahead to give them what they came for and from his own mouth, he deems that as one of the best performances he has ever done and this is one of the best stories of his life.
“They were so engaged in what I was saying. They were laughing, they were applauding, they were really intense, I could feel their energy on stage and it was amazing. After the show, they came to tell me that the two people are still at the theatre and they say they want to see me before they go”, KSM shared.
KSM went out to meet them and amazingly, one of them happened to be Tony Andrè Carcass, who back then, was a very big shot in theatre. Tony commended him for his great talent and took it upon himself to move the show from the dingy theatre to the Mazer theatre off-broadway.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye