Garth Drabinsky’s new Broadway musical Paradise Square shows an old producer can learn new tricks
I didn’t believe the Canadian producer would ever find backers to bring another show to Broadway – but, his latest musical, opened there at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York on Sunday.
Nellie runs the bar with Willie’s sister Annie . Annie is in an interracial marriage herself, with Reverend Samuel Jacob Lewis , who is prevented from enlisting because he’s Black and instead works down on the docks. While this plot line seems designed to invite the audience to compare Owen and Washington’s lived experiences , the book credited to playwright Christina Anderson questions and counters that impulse. “You ain’t my mirror and I ain’t yours,” Washington says.
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