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Article: NEW ACTS, DEEP ROOTS MINGLE ELMA LEWIS SERIES AIMS TO ATTRACT FAMILIES TO PARK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2006
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Past meets present at the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park Series
this summer, which opens Tuesday morning with a performance by the
Chu Ling Dance Academy, based in Chinatown.
For the first time this year, the First Night Neighborhood Network
is taking part in booking performers, a task that project manager
Lois Roach calls challenging given the series' deep roots in the
community.
"We wanted to make sure we had a mix of the new and the old, and
we wanted to make sure we had a mix of folks who had ties with the
school," said Roach. "It's not just music in a park; there's a whole
lot of history around why that became so important."
This is the fourth year of the reincarnation of the ...