PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Freedom's Child": Derrick Cobey Takes Playbill Inside the Eagle Theatre Staging of Frank Wildhorn's The Civil WarThe Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, NJ, presents Frank Wildhorn and Gregory Boyd's musical The Civil War. Cast member Derrick Cobey (The Scottsboro Boys) takes us behind the scenes.
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October 01, 2014
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Freedom's Child": Derrick Cobey Takes Playbill Inside the Eagle Theatre Staging of Frank Wildhorn's The Civil War
The Civil War , which has lyrics by Jack Murphy and a book by Alley Theatre artistic director Gregory Boyd, draws from original Civil War-era documents for its subject matter. The authors raided correspondence, diaries, newspaper accounts, speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, even the poetry of Walt Whitman, to communicate the real-life experiences of the soldiers and civilians who endured the war.
Lupita Nyong'o, Katrina Lenk, Jelani Alladin, and more were on hand to celebrate the October 31 opening night of Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs' new musical.