Publisher Description
The Crump family is adrift and in trouble. Widowered Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teen daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up: Godfrey remarries a white woman, Ermina discovers boys, and Ernestine is torn between Communism and bebop! Playwright Lynn Nottage received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined.
An LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Deidrie Henry as Ernestine Crump, Russell Hornsby as Godfrey Crump, Tinashe Kajese as Ermina Crump, Kate Steele as Gerte, Charlayne Woodard as Lily Ann Green. Directed by Seret Scott and recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles
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About the Narrators
Kate Steele is a
Los Angeles-based actress who has appeared in Matchstick Men, Frasier, Modern Family, and L.A. Theatre Works’
production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé.
Kirk Franklin is the top gospel artist in Nielsen Soundscan history, selling more than twelve million albums and more than twenty #1 gospel hits. The host of his own talent search program, Sunday Best, he is the winner of seven Grammy awards, six NAACP awards, and many other honors. Also the author of the memoir, Church Boy: My Music & My Life, he lives in Texas with his wife and children.
Charlayne Woodard is
a film, stage, and television actress, as well as a playwright. She is best known
for her recurring roles as Janice on The
Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Vonda on Roseanne,
and Sister Peg on Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit. She was one of the original cast members in the Tony
Award–winning Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, and in 2009, starred in a
one-person performance called The Night
Watcher at Primary Stages in New York City.