Well, You Can’t Call It Typecasting
Marion Barry, Christmas angel? The D.C. Council member will don a "bad white suit" this weekend to play a prophet angel in "Xmas in Washington" at the Lincoln Theatre. The holiday musical, said playwright Gloria Hightower, revolves around two New Orleans families separated from their children during the Katrina evacuation who are saved by Barry's character and his band of rescuing angels. At one point the teenage angels bicker, and Barry complains he's got the blues, then start to sings "Stormy Weather."
