"Having Our Say" was a Broadway success, which means that it is by definition unthreatening to white audiences.
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In the center: two remarkable women who carved out careers where none existed, and who lived lives of the mind in a middle-class black America that is often dismissed today as irrelevant.The physical production is more elaborate than it initially seems.
Broadway Musical Original. With their eight brothers and sisters, they were raised on the campus of St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C., where their father, a minister, was a teacher and their mother an administrator. The sisters had a unique and privileged upbringing.
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The sisters made waves.They have also lived long enough to experience a large slice of American social history, but not so long that their vision has become blurred. Bessie refuses to call herself anything but "Negro" or "colored."
Yet it contains dozens of characters, represents six generations and embraces nearly 200 years of black American life, which is also white American life.It's Emily Mann's adaptation of "Having Our Say," the best-selling memoir by Sarah (Sadie) L. Delany and her sister Annie Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany, written with Amy Hill Hearth.
Later their father, born into slavery, went on to become the first black bishop in the Episcopal Church.The family never had much money, but everyone prospered. They don't upstage; they complement. Having Our Say.
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Dr. Bessie Delany
Miss Foster presides.
The play, which opened last night at the Booth Theater, stars two enchanting actresses: Gloria Foster, who plays Sadie at the age of 103, and Mary Alice, as Bessie at 101.Like the book, the form of "Having Our Say" is disarmingly plain: Sadie and Bessie welcome the audience as a visitor to their comfortable old house in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Sadie is the gracious one, as if being the elder requires that she be circumspect and observe the manners.
She's sure she's not an African-American.
Born to a former slave who became …
Thomas Lynch's single set is framed by a succession of projected still montages, designed by Wendall K. Harrington and Sage Marie Carter.
Price: $155.79 & FREE Shipping: Only 1 left in stock - order soon. She also says with impatience, "I'm not black; I'm brown," which leads to a consideration of the hierarchy of shade.
It begins with an idyllic childhood in North Carolina.
The original Broadway production of Having Our Say opened on Apr 6, 1995.