Word: higginsen
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...both sides of the footlights, Mama is very much a family affair. The audience is composed largely of black families in their Sunday best, and onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy Higginsen (Troy's sister) and Kenneth Wydro (Higginsen's husband); Higginsen frequently plays the narrator, and her brother Randy plays the minister. After the rousing curtain call, Randy moves to the theater exit and, ever the good shepherd, greets the congregation as it leaves...
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