Live theater can transport us through time and space, beyond racial, cul tural, religious and societal bounds, ourselves, our fellow human travelers and our meek place in the infinite universe.
With "Gospel! Gospel!
Gospel!" - the new musical reporter at Georgia's Savannah Morning News. The place was the First Bryan Baptist Church, the original site of the first African Baptist Church in the country, near where Savannah was born.
The event was a mass choir, joining the singers from many of the area's black churches. I sat upstairs in the gallery while my photographer-girlfriend took pictures.
She looked up at one point, and we found each The wall of sound was that beautiful and that moving, a people, two nonbelievers with a sea of faith.
It forever changed me.
So has seeing, hearing and feeling "Gospel! Gospel!
Created and directed by Otis Sallid, filmmaker Spike Lee's choreographer, and co-produced by Karamu alum James Pickens Jr. of television's "Grey's Anatomy," "Gospel!" brings the oldest black theater in the country to a new plateau of excellence.
In "Gospel!
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