Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James I. Robinson New York City...
...attacking. Perhaps this is the true serious social message of passions. While watching the lives of the characters unfold, fueled part by humor, part by drama, we see a certain realism beneath the cliche, cardboard characters. We can feel some of Aggy's pain, brought to life by Lynda Robinson in a strong, almost poignant performance. Our lives are a mixture of both comedy and tragedy; perhaps neither can rise to gradiose levels in the common man, but the feelings are real and present in all of us. In Berto and Aggy we may be able to get a glimpse...
...James E. Robinson...
...Hudson Robinson South Charleston...
...Broadway musical not only addresses this dilemma, it seems to share it. The Tap Dance Kid may sound like the saga of young Bojangles Robinson, but it is really A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in blackface and with the priorities reversed. Its subject is the aspirations and frustrations of the black middle class. Daddy (Samuel E. Wright) is a successful lawyer, living in a Manhattan duplex with his wife Ginnie (Hattie Winston), their 13-year-old daughter Emma (Marline Allard) and their ten-year-old son Willie (Alfonso Ribeiro). Emma wants to be an attorney; Willie just gotta dance, under...