Description: By Phillip Hayes Dean. This drama deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and what a man achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams portrays a naive, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who finds himself in difficulty because of his unrealitic hopes. Directed by Tony-winner Lloyd Richards ("Fences"), and featuring Oscar-winner Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman, Roots).
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Rating: - Freeman (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Wonderful 70's era dramatic play about a young idealist son who has aspirations higher than his blue-collar middle class upbringing but can't seem to figure a way out. No happy ending , but is a beautiful conveyance of real-life, with all the heart-felt emotion and drama.
