It’s funny looking back on it now, but we weren’t working with material that made logical sense at Eastern. The students said no to Carmen Jones and Cabin in the Sky—they looked sideways at some of those roles, you know, and this was in the years before The Wiz and Dreamgirls. What we ended up with was a school full of inner-city Black kids doing South Pacific, singing ’bout “Bali Ha’i.” [Laughs]
