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Article: WHAT `BLACK NATIVITY' MEANS TO ITS CAST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2000
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For more than three decades, "Black Nativity" has been one of the
Boston area's most cherished holiday traditions. With a script by
Langston Hughes based on the Gospel according to St. Luke, "Black
Nativity" unfolds as a dramatic pageant with music. There's "lots of
singing, end to end" says executive director Elma Lewis.
Produced by Lewis and music director John Andrew Ross, and staged
by the National Center of Afro-American Artists, the pageant is
expected to attract 16,000 people over four weekends beginning
tomorrow night at the Tremont Temple. The cast features professional
and amateur performers, this year roughly 60 children and more than
70 adults from all walks of life. The Wise ...