CPCC Announces Casting for THE PIANO LESSON; Runs April 9-18

Director Corlis Hayes announces casting for the CPCC Theatre production of August Wilson's The  Piano Lesson.

 
Karen Abercrombie                                        Berneice                     
Jonavan Adams                                              Boy Willie                   
Gerard Hazelton                                             Wining Boy                 
Sidney Horton                                                 Avery                                                             
Robert N. Isaac                                               Lymon            
Jaina Nalley                                                    Maretha (Understudy)                                   
John W. Price                                                 Doaker                       
Ericka Ross                                                    Grace                         
Kelsey Holland Wardlaw                                 Maretha

August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding New Play" and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for "Best Play" for his haunting drama The Piano Lesson. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. The Drama critic of The New York Times wrote "Like other Wilson plays, it (The Piano Lesson) seems to sing even when it is talking." Don't miss this classic American drama from one America's most exciting dramat 

The production runs April 9 - 18 in Pease Auditorium.

For tickets, call the Halton Theater Box Office at 704.330.6534, Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or visit www.tix.cpcc.edu or CarolinaTix 24/7.