Black Nativity/Yellow Face

The rousing musical “Black Nativity” cannot be beat for sheer exuberance. Taking off from Langston Hughes's gospel song play and performed at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, this Classical Theatre of Harlem production is set in 1973 Times Square when the populace in the neighborhood, dubbed The Deuce or The Devil's Playground with its pimps, prostitutes, and pickpockets, evokes the mood of the 1997 Cy Coleman musical, “The Life,” more than present-day Disney “Mary Poppins” just down the block. The unstoppable Andre De Shields heads the superb cast of dancers, singers in the traditions of Motown and Stax, joined by the Shangilia Youth Choir of Nairobi, Kenya. The mix of these musical genres creates a sensational entertainment; in retelling the story of Jesus's birth, the show reminds us that the Christian themes of salvation, redemption, and universal good will do not stop with holidays. With a nod to today's Africa and the travails of the Sudanese among others beset by unspeakable violence, the company asks: would Jesus be crucified today?
        Downtown, at the Public Theater, the world premiere of David Henry Hwang's “Yellow Face” is a more cerebral entertainment, addressing the vexing problem of racism in the casting of “Miss Saigon:” should the actor Jonathan Pryce, after all a white Brit, have originated the lead role meant for an Asian? Dramatizing his own protest of that event, Hwang creates a polemical theater melding fact and fiction, drawing from the news and people of the time on a bare stage. Clever and surprising, this work is a reminder of the formidable role that race and ethnicity play in our culture. The fine actors replicate the gender/race blind ideal: with Noah Bean as author surrogate, Francis Jue in multiple roles, and Anthony Torn wittily playing “The Announcer” and “[Name withheld on advice of counsel].” After the show, when asked to what extent this work is autobiographical, the playwright said, “Issues of race are egg-shelly. I am a writer and in the end, it's all about me.” His wife, Kathryn A. Layng, also performs multiple roles, sometimes a man and most notably her mother-in-law. So what does she think of herself so portrayed? “She says I've improved,” reported Layng.

Regina Weinreich                            Graphic Design: SalpeterVentura

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