The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), November 7th, 2000
Director Tina Landau talks about bridging past to present with the new musical The Ballad of Little Jo
The stage is layered in shadow, skeletal trees silhouetted against a scrim lit up like an evening sky, when a slender figure in cowboy clothes begins to sing. In the dim light this person's broad-brimmed hat and heavy boots look masculine, but the voice that emerges is pure female.
"I am crossing a river so deep and wide / Lord, lead me on to the far side," Judy Kuhn's unaccompanied contralto keens.
The gospel-inflected couplet perfectly sums up the universal themes running through the n...
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