Slavery and freedom tale the ultimate challenge for stage's jack-of-all-trades
It takes some work to find something that Chuck Cooper has not done on Broadway.
Dramas? Sure. Musicals? Of course. Shakespeare? Naturally. Comedies? Certainly. What about Neil Simon? Stephen Sondheim? John Kander and Fred Ebb? Tony Kushner? Yes, yes, yes and yes.
So it takes time, but there turns out to be something: roller-skating.
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