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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heston objected to the term "African American," noting that, when he worked with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., society was less sensitiv about terminology...
...production opens by introducing the smiling Mother (Raebecca Eichenberger) and Father (Cris Groenendaal) who, along with Little Boy (Nathan Keen), Mother's Younger Brother (Aloysius Gigl) and Grandfather (Austin Colyer) round out the white upper-class upstate New Yorkers. The audience is also introduced to Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Lawrence Hamilton), a talented Harlem pianist, and his captivating lover Sarah (Darlesia Cearcy); as well as to the fanatically patriotic immigrant Tateh (Michael Rupert) and his Little Girl (Jenell Slack). The three groups of people--the WASPs in frilly white, of course; the Harlem natives in deep burgundies and blues...
...musical dances on, the story becomes so engrossing that the characters more silly and overused lines blur into a powerful larger picture. While Father is out on an arctic expedition, Mother discovers a live baby buried in her backyard--the child of Sarah and Coalhouse Walker Jr. Much to everyone's shock, she takes both baby and mother into her house, and its not long before Coalhouse himself comes a'courtin', enchanting the once-uppity white folks with his amazing piano-playing abilities. Unfortunately, a violent act of racism soon sours Coalhouse and Sarah's blossoming romance, and tragedy moves...
...Ragtime isno exception to this rule. Everyone with a solosings with enough heartfelt emotion to bring theentire audience to tears. The voices ofEichenberger and Cearcy, as Mother and Sarahrespectively, create the audio equivalent ofheartbreak itself--Eichenberger with painfullymeasured dignity, Cearcy with a flood of rawemotion. As Coalhouse Walker Jr., Hamiltondisplays an enormous range of talent both duringand between his solo numbers. He slips into eachmood--from languid happiness to pure joy to miseryto violent anger--with a realistic lucidity thatcements his position as one of the mostoutstanding members of the cast. In addition, thecharacters of Tateh, Mother's Younger Brother...
Although HRIF had sponsored several popular campus events, including the Interfaith Day of Service and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Service, Edelman said a low level of participation by members recently made it impossible to justify continuing the group...