Harlem Song

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If you've been looking for an excuse to finally visit the world famous Apollo Theater, here it is. George C. Wolfe has brought a bit of Broadway uptown with Harlem Song, a new show that sings, speaks, and dances the praises of one of New York's most famous communities.

At the show's opening, The Barefoot Prophet (David St. Louis), who looks like a modern street corner mystic, magically tells how the black peoples of the world came to Harlem. He is followed by Miss Nightingale, played exquisitely by Queen Esther, greeting us like the fashionable hostess and gossipy neighbor that she is. This performer guides us through much of the evening, sometimes trading in Miss Nightingale's Sunda[...]