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By Lee Williams
Published on November 21, 2007 at 1:40am
Apparently King Solomon has a lot to teach us here in the modern age — at least, that’s the premise behind local playwright/director Danny Hodges’s majestically titled King Solomon Lives: A Nubian Love Story. The play (which is Broadway bound, by the way) starts in 1996 with a boy named David who’s down about the fact that his parents have split. His grandfather comes to the rescue with a bedtime story about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The bedtime story fades to a long dream sequence that takes place in the year 976 B.C., with David and the audience transported back to King Solomon’s Egypt. Expect lots of enthusiastic dancing and great music (think Lion King with divorced parents). Even though King Solomon Lives hits the audience on the head with its moral, there’s a kitschy audacity to the show that’s irresistible. 7:30 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday. Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Babgy Street. For information, call 713–629–3700 or visit www.king-solomon-lives.com. $10 to $55.
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