Word: racheff
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...timeworn book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse portrayed the well-heeled Long Island crowd in the Gatsby era. James Racheff's adaptation, first seen in a smaller-scale 1989 version at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, transposes the locale to Harlem. It brings together a moneyed sophisticate, black in parentage but not in apparent culture, and the down-home, ethnic- talking show girl he has yearned for but lost track of since a chance encounter years earlier. They meet as he is on the verge of marrying the prim, domineering daughter of a minister. Most of the action arises...
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