"Wind me up, Chuck!"
Anyone who caught a gig by the late godfather of go-go, Chuck Brown, probably heard his fans screaming that line — and now, it shows up in the name of a new musical at Georgetown University.
Wind Me Up, Maria! stars freshman Myiah Smith, who spent most of her childhood in D.C. Hailing from a line of go-go musicians, she sometimes finds herself explaining go-go to her fellow students.
"What I found consistently is that people are always, ‘Oh, go-go dancers, yeah!" Smith says, "and I'm like, ‘No, no. That's not what it is.’”
Smith plays Maria, a Georgetown upperclassman who fetches a summer job tutoring a group of international students. She instructs them on things like SAT vocabulary — using go-go as a teaching guide. [Read More]