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Miscellany: "The Given Day" (for MLK)

By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jan 15, 2009, at 11:08 AM  Updated on 1/15 at 11:08 AM



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So maybe tonight you need to laugh....

This has not, by any standard, been a good week for far too many people.

We've been horrifically reminded how fragile ...

'Lion King' to donate to OK disaster relief

Celebrity Attractions announced that Disney Theatricals will donate a portion of this week's ticket sales to the Tulsa run ...

Letts, 'Pippin' win at Drama Desk Awards

Tulsa native Tracy Letts won the Outstanding Actor in a Play at the 58th annual Drama Desk Awards, presented Sunday night ...

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"Yes, there were better ways to get married than the way they did, and the house on Archer was small, and then the plague had come to town, and all of this in a short eight weeks -- but still, still they were in paradise. They were in one of the few places in the whole world where a black man and a black woman walked tall. The whites not only left them alone, they respected them, and Lila agreed with Brother Garrity when he declared that Greenwood would be the model for the rest of the country and that ten to twenty years from now there'd be Greenwoods in Mobile and Columbus and Chicago and New Orleans and Detroit. Because the blacks and whites had figured out how to leave one another be in Tulsa, and the peace and prosperity that came with that was too good for the rest of the country not to sit up and take notice."

-- from "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane.

ARTS

So maybe tonight you need to laugh....

This has not, by any standard, been a good week for far too many people.

We've been horrifically reminded how fragile ...

'Lion King' to donate to OK disaster relief

Celebrity Attractions announced that Disney Theatricals will donate a portion of this week's ticket sales to the Tulsa run ...

Letts, 'Pippin' win at Drama Desk Awards

Tulsa native Tracy Letts won the Outstanding Actor in a Play at the 58th annual Drama Desk Awards, presented Sunday night ...

CONTACT THE BLOGGER

James D. Watts Jr.

918-581-8478
Email

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