![]() ![]() Now he owns it).Ĭoalhouse, a reputed womanizer, falls hard for Sarah (Brooke Henderson), but she feels abandoned and never tells him they have a son. Twenty years ago, Brown understudied the coveted role of Coalhouse at Moonlight. (Vista native Charl Brown, who cut his theatrical teeth, like his idol, the original star of “Ragtime,” Brian Stokes Mitchell, at San Diego Junior Theatre. ![]() Please reload the page and try again.Īt the center of the action and the major conflicts is skillful pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. His mostly-silent daughter, The Little Girl (Leila Manuel) also has no name. The face of the immigrants is the young, ambitious widower, Tateh (Geno Carr, long-time member of the La Jolla and Broadway cast of “Come From Away”), whose Latvian name is too difficult for anyone to pronounce, so everyone just calls him by the Yiddish word for Father. The privileged Whites are the unnamed, prototypes: the stultified Mother (Bets Malone), stiff-upper-lip Father (Jason Webb), Mother’s restless Younger Brother (Jake Bradford), jaded, change-resistant Grandfather (Ralph Johnson) and innocently prophetic Little Boy (Daxton Bethoney). The three disparate communities are represented by three families. Even the overarching image, the Statue of Liberty, is abstracted, though squarely framed by the immortal words of Emma Lazarus that sit on a plaque at its base: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” If only. The mega-sized, ever-changing projections (Blake McCarty) are nearly hyperactive, a combination of on-the-nose archival film footage and stills and blurry, arty, amorphous color washes. ![]()
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