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More Articles Of Interest
- Richard Wahlberg
I guess my favorite parts were the singing and dancing (which pretty much covers it all, really).
For one, this is not your standard, safe, cookie-cutter pop music. The lyrics, unfortunately,
are sometimes every bit as banal as those of any Broadway show, but there are enough "Oh Come
Emmanuel"s and "Joy to the World"s to offset that problem...
- Lynn Fugaro
Maybe Broadway has long since abandoned things like passion,
energy, and soul. Now it's just Langston Hughes and the WBTT left to stand behind
truly passionate musical theatre. If so,
we should be thankful that it's happening right here in our own backyard...
- Jenny Gurley
In 1961, famous American poet Lanston Hughes set
the story to verse in creativing "Black Nativity," which
he called a "gospel song play." Under the direction of Nate Jacobs,
the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe brings Hughes' interpretation to
the Historic Asolo stage...
- Cody Frazier
Songs are all based on their lyrics and tunes. Writing the lyrics of
a song may seem like something that needs lots of formal training. On
the contrary, song lyrics are available everywhere around us. We just have
to realize that they re there...
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