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...comer on her 1988 album Blue Skies, in which she stunningly reinterpreted such standards as Shall We Dance and I've Grown Accustomed to His Face. Ever since, critical accolades have been rolling in. Recently, Billboard crowned her "heir apparent to divas Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Sarah Vaughan." Critics aside, top jazz performers want to work with her. Wilson is the featured vocalist in Blood on the Fields, a new big-band piece written by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that can be heard on National Public Radio this week. It's yet another sign that Wilson...
Unusually structured Parks' play opens with a short half-hour "performance" by the Foundling Father of Abraham Lincoln, with various metatheatrical moments during which the Foundling Father slips out of his impersonation of Lincoln to tell us directly about the various beards and shoes and costumes he alternates between. This "performance" of Lincoln is both humorous and moving. The Foundling Father says confessionally, "some inaccuracies are good for business. The stovepipe hat was never really worn indoors, but people don't want their Lincoln hatless." The register changes completely when he plays Mary Todd: her first word after her husband...
...wife Lucy, and his son, Brazil, spend their time digging in the hole that the deceased husband had begun, intending to replicate the amusement park, The Great Hole of History. Brazil wants to know all about his father, and Lucy tells him about his father's great fascination with Lincoln especially his assassination. Lucy recounts sadly how the "Lesser Man forgets who he is and just crumbles the Greater Man continues on." Myth consumes actual individual alive, and Lucy warns her son against a similar fate, always remonstrating," Keep it to scale...
...their production of The America Play, which follows on the heels of the original acclaimed production by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival earlier this year. Terry Alexander gives a magnetic performance both as the Foundling Father and as the Foundling Father impersonating Abraham Lincoln. Kim Brockington gives us an emotionally complex Lucy, who speaks simultaneously with sarcasm, love and a quiet, reverent wonder. Royal Miller plays the son Brazil with both energy and style; he explores the broad reaches of expressive range of body, face, and voice...
America.A.R.T. New Stages at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. The newest work by African-American writer Suzan-LoriParks is a creative meditation on the character of Abraham Lincoln and his impact on black people throughout the century following emancipation. Hasty pudding Theatre, 8 p.m. $18-$36. Call 547-8300 for tickets and more information. 8 April Friday...