[Boston's Black Nativity 2011]
The 2011 season of Black Nativity was presented with Roxbury Community College Thursday, December 8, Friday December 9 and Saturday December 10. The group says on its Facebook page: “Congratulations to all the wonderful performers this weekend! What a spectacular experience. We are already looking forward to next year's shows!”
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“Black Nativity is produced by the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) as a gift from Boston’s black community to all men and women of 'good will.' The textured, delicate voices of children and sonorous voices of adults have enthralled Boston audiences at performances of Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity since l970.
“NCAAA director Edmund Barry Gaither asserts 'our cast of more than fifty embraces this perspective and has itself become an expansive family expressing these values.' Although a few cast members have performed every season, about one-quarter of the cast is new each year. The children, some performing publicly for the first time, are especially exciting as they prove again that they are the hope for our future.
“Black Nativity honors the conviction of NCAAA founder Elma Lewis and original Musical Director John Andrew Ross that spiritual and humane values have to be celebrated to build wholesome communities.
“The famed Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes was a close family friend to John Andrew Ross whose arrangements continue to anchor our production of Black Nativity under Executive Producer Voncille Ross and Co-Musical Directors Milton Wright and Marilyn Andry. The dramatic choreography of George Howard is interpreted anew by dance master Desiree Springer O’Neal.”
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