“Raisin” To Feature Original Broadway Cast RAISIN .Broadway’s Tony and Grammy Award winning "Best Musical,” will be staged at Ovens Auditori- . um, January 4th, at 8 p.m.; January 5th, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. It stars the original Broad way cast and has had record breaking months on national tour and three smash years on Broadway. Currently playing to "stand ing room only” audiences and standing ovations nightly, RAISIN has become a signifi cant break-through for Black musical theatres on the na tional scene while stimulating the revival of first class Broadway tours in general. Breaking records across the nation, RAISIN is a box office feat unequalled since “Hello Dolly!” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” Over 3 million happy thea tregoers saw RAISIN in its three year run in New York and first year on tour as it toppled the attendance re -- ncai oiuc Story,” “Purlie,” “Camelot,” and others to become one of the most beloved and longest running super hits in musical comedy history. RAISIN won the highest honor the American theatre bestows on its own; the cove ted Tony Award for "Best Musical of the Years” thus providing this proud Black entertainment its place for all time in the select company of America’s truly great musical comedies. RAISIN is based on Lor raine Hansberry's immortal play “A Raisin In The Sun” which opened in New York in 1959 and fast became the pivotal play in the emergence of- Black theatre in America and won for its young Black author the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for “Best Play of the Year.” Ms. Hans berry thus became the young est American, fifth woman and only Black playwright to win the award. Her fine play also significantly opened the door for a new generation of Black artists, writers and per formers. I" YOUNG LOVERS - Amelia Walker as Beneatha and Milt .Grayson, as an African exchange student, Asagai, make up the central love interest of the Tony and Grammy winning Best Musical RAISIN. Perhaps most significant, “A Raisin In The Sun” had etched within its seemingly simple tale of a Black family’s refusal to sacrifice human degnity to the demands of a racist society the multiple themes and levels of the Black revolution in social conscious ness tKat was to erupt with stunning swiftness in the 1 m * _ 1960 S. RAISIN stars Sandra Phil lips, Gregg Baker, Vanessa Shaw and Amelia Walker. Co starring are Milt Grayson, Nate Barnett and Altyrone “Deno" Brown. Tickets are on sale at the Charlotte Coliseum Box Of fice, National Hat Shop, Sears, and Sears Area Stores. ^°ie * o Aj)pear in Uinstmas Dreani ^*“6^1 nauiiie umc ana live life-size puppets created by Sid and Marty Krofft join Oral Roberts for “Christmas Dream,” a Yuletide special to be colorcast on Channel Nine Thursday night, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. The program opens with a weary parade of animals (the Krofft puppets created espe cially for this production), symbolic of those who were at Bethlehem on the first Christ mas. They find themselves in a dream, following a star, unaware oi meir oestination Natalie Cole comes on stage to sing a Christmas medley, accompanied by Richard and Patti Roberts and the World Action Singers. Then, in a nostalgic mood, she shares with the Roberts family her loving memories of her father, Nat King Cole. 1 Subscribe to the Charlotte Post! Your support helps! ^—m—mrn Singer Roberta Flack To Appear In “The Tiny Tree” v»«u ivooeris unristmas Dream" will have an encore colorcast on Channel tyine Tuesday,. Dec. 21 at 9 a.m. Singer Natalie Cole and five life-size puppets created by Sid and Marty Krofft will be featured on the Christmas special. The program, taped on loca tion at the Oral Roberts Uni versity in Tulsa, Oklahoma, blends fantasy and reality to conjure up visions of twinkling lights, happy giggles ol child ren, mountains of toy trea sures and the beautiful sound % of carols wafting 3_ __ l 1 ■ un-i4. wm a All 1 ■ wnnvwm ▼ a a \ ^ mm FREE MOUNTlNfl - ROTATION TICKET PRICES Evenings, $19.50, $8 and $6 Matinee, $8.50, $7, and $5 Tickets are on sale at the Charlotte Coliseum Box Office National HatjShop, Sears, and Sears Area Stores. Mail orders accepted. GALA OPENING NIGHT BENEFIT: The Black Women’s Caucus, Epicureans 00 ' UNCF Women’s Committee ft CHARLOTTE ARTft 2^* CINEMA *=jg W123 W. TRADE ST«37W720^f OPEN IIAH DAILY4 I PM SUNDAY i m. tamnm m * nxnKB UNSTOppAblc! _ UNbEllEVAbU! UNbEATAbU! BqUcE Lee tL ^ rWt Msna of Iuumti luMqhiiiktdi to Ixuli you up a«kI kick you apart will* ALSO BRUCE LEE IN FISTS OF FURY 2 ■,c!"ow, | *1.00 ™ i Dilworth Theatre ? A74-13, E78-14, F78-14, 874-14,874-15, K78-15 GOLDEN FALCON POLYESTER CORD ti.n m a rt w euh tu/vmwmii> m a ONE PRICE TIRE STORES FEATURINO FAMOUS QUALITY FALCON TIRES SOLO COAST TO COAST ”,S° BLVD CENTRAL AVE. BOULEVARD PHONE 525 *583 PHONE 434.7111 opn“°n5at ssssrx OPEN MON ^SAT «AJM,T0*P./*|1;.. JI- UWIOLPM i -RANDY BUSH, MGR. DAVE BROWN. MGR OPEN 8 All TO 6 PM MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY