For Immediate Release.   In a unique agreement, best-selling author
Nina Foxx has optioned dramatic rights to her latest novel, Marrying
Up, to Garrett Davis and gdavisplays.com for development as a stage
play.  Rehearsals are set to begin in November in Nashville, Tennessee,
and the play will begin touring in February 2006, premiering in
Alabama.   Davis has assembled an award-winning lineup for the stage
play Marrying Up that is destined to take urban theater to another
level. This unique cast features Peoples' Choice Award nominee, Thea
Vidale, star of her own ABC sitcom, "Thea," featured in a recurring
role on the "Drew Carey Show" and guest appearances on
"Whoopi," Ellen" and "Comedy Central;" Kerisse Hutchinson,
who plays "Chantal" on the hit ABC soap opera All My Children;
Archie Love from the legendary R&B group The BarKays; and hip hop
vocalist K-Rob, the next generation of Isleys Brothers.
gdavisplays.com is proud to introduce Kim Fleming in her urban theater
debut.  Kim's career includes touring as a background vocalist with
country superstar Wynonna and her voice is featured on over 200
recordings ranging from Stevie Wonder and Brian McKinght to rockers Bon
Jovi and BeBe and CeCe Winans, from gospel's reigning musical family.

John Forbes, one of the industry's top musical directors, who worked
with Tyler Perry on his first 8 stage play productions as musical
director, will now serve as musical director and producer of the
soundtrack album for Marrying Up.  John has an impressive array of
projects to his credit including serving as musical director for
Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson and Rick James as well as composer of
the film score for Tyler Perry's recent #1 box office smash, "Diary
Of A Mad Black Woman." Additionally, John composed music for many TV
shows including Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model," ESPN,
"America's Most Wanted," NBA Sports for Fox TV, MTV's Video
Clash, the UPN hit show "Girlfriends," and contributed arrangements
for "The New Jack City" soundtrack.  John has also performed on
numerous shows including "The David Letterman Show," "The Tonight
Show," MTV Awards, "Saturday Night Live," and the CBS Morning
Show.  According to Garrett Davis, the play's Producer and Director,
"I feel so fortunate to have John Forbes as our musical director,
producer of the soundtrack album and a part of our production team.
John brings a wealth of experience, talent and successful
collaborations to gdavisplays.com and his musical genius will help me
to create not just a play, but an experience."

Nina Foxx, the author of the best-selling novel on which play is based,
has been acclaimed as a "veracious storyteller" by BET Books,  Nina
Foxx's academic insight into the human psyche allows her to develop
sophisticated characters that are as real and as complicated as any
member of her readers' own families.  In Marrying Up, Foxx peels back
the veneer of her main character, Paris Montague, a determined and
self-sufficient woman who parallels one of women's fiction's most
enduring heroines, Elizabeth Bennett of Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice.   "So many young women find themselves searching for a
mate by listing the qualities that are unacceptable to them, instead of
the things that are.  I wanted this story to make us take a look at the
things that should really be at the core of a relationship, such as
love and values rather than how much money a potential mate makes.
I'm really excited about working with gdavisplays.com."   Garrett
Davis is excited about producing Nina Foxx's first stage play
adaptation.  "I really admire Nina's writing style.  She is so
visual with her characters.  Nina's style draws you into the story
which made it easy for me as a playwright to turn this work into an
incredible production."

An ordained minister, Garrett Davis has written ten plays in eleven
years that have earned him accolades across the country.  Davis' work
in Urban Theater has earned him a Humanitarian Award nomination, and he
was labeled as one of the funniest Gospel Playwrights in America by the
NAACP.   Davis' latest creations, "If Loving You Is Wrong," and
"Private Chambers" (plays 8 and 9) have solidified his place as one
of America's premier playwrights and producers of Urban Theater.
Upon its release in 2003, If Loving You is Wrong sold 10,000 DVDs in 90
days.  Private Chambers, the first courtroom based drama for urban
theater, will debut the DVD in late 2005.

Artists who have appeared in Garrett Davis' productions during the
last 11 years include Freddie Jackson, Ann Nesby (from the movie "The
Fighting Temptations"),  Donnie Harper of the New Jersey Mass Choir,
singer songwriter Becky White, Blanche McAllister, Luther Barnes,
Melvin Williams, Gerald Alston and Blue Lovette of the Manhattans,
Anthony McDonald of the group Prophet Jones, Glenn Jones, gospel
comedian Sister Cantaloupe, R&B Songstress Cherelle, Dorothy Townes
from the Sounds of Blackness, Duranice Pace of the Pace Sisters and
Carl Payne form the Martin Lawrence Show.

According to Davis, "I am so blessed to be a part of such an
incredible production, from the cast and crew, to the musical direction
 and the underlying story.  I believe that our stage production of
Marrying Up create a new benchmark of excellence in urban theater."

For booking Information, contact:
P. Browne, Esq.  Phone:  615.516.2128
Email:  browneentertainm...@yahoo.com