"Ella The Ungovernable" theatrical production
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"Ella The Ungovernable" is a play about 15 year-old Ella Fitzgerald's incarceration and eventual escape from Hudson, NY's Training School For Girls in 1933. It was written by playwright David McDonald and is debuting in Upstate, NY, in preparation of a run on the main stage at Greenwich Village's Theater For The New City later in 2020. The play is a drama that happens to have four songs, including such chestnuts as Fizgerald's own composition, "A Tisket A Tasket."