![]() “New Jack City Live” is coming to DeVos Performance Hall for one night only on Thursday, Feb. ![]() ![]() The new stage play features several other well-known actors including Gary Dourdan from “CSI,” Treach from the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature, and Allen Payne, who reprises his role as Gee Money, the character he originally played in the movie. News 8 talked with Flex Alexander, one of the stars of “New Jack City Live.” The stage play is based on the 1991 movie “New Jack City.” The hit movie starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T and many others.Īlexander plays the crack-addicted police informant Pookie, a character made famous by Chris Rock in the 1991 movie.Īlexander said he makes the role his own in the stage adaptation, and drew upon his own experiences of witnessing the crack epidemic firsthand in the 1980s. A year after playing the righteous cop out to rid the city of the despicable drug lord in King of New York, Wesley Snipes revisited the urban underworld in. (WOOD) - A stage adaptation of a gangster movie classic is coming to DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids.
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