Monday, May 5, 2025

Choir Boy @ Karamu House



Through May 18, 2025
(216) 795-7077

 

Roy Berko
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Howard Gollop
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Sheri Gross
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Mark Horning

This is a show that is full of surprises that encourages audiences to participate in their own way. It is a musical play that uses this tool to advance an idea of diversity, equity and inclusion...a lesson still in need of being taught more than ever. 

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Chris Howey
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Laura Kennelly
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Kate Klotzbach
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Dr. Yuko Kurahashi
Karamu House production’s Choir Boy, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Nathan Henry, is a superb work with seven talented singers/performers and two seasoned actors, exploring and problematizing the very reality of the strict “code of ethics and morality” imposed, unrealistically and unpractically, on a group of a prestigious boarding high school—The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys. In a 100-minute one-act show, the audience witnesses a series of vignettes that capture snips and pieces of a dormitory high school life centered on well-choreographed songs sung by the seven performers.  These “affluent” and privileged yet with dilemmas, traumas, and anxieties remind me of the two boarding school students–Omari and Jasmine–in Dominique Morriseau’s Pipeline.
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Joey Morona
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