Contact Information:

                                                                                                Vanessa Moody Coombs

Virginia Union University                                                      Vice President

1500 North Lombardy Street                                                 University Relations

Richmond VA. 23220                                                              Phone: (804) 257-5856

                                                                                                 Fax: (804) 257-5868

                                                                                                 Email: vcoombs@vuu.edu

                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 5, 2005

 

 

 

     Virginia Union University’s Department of Fine Arts will present “Take A Giant Step” directed by Leroi Boyd on October 20 – 22, 2005 at 8:00 p.m.; October 23, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.; October 27 – 29, 2005 at 8 p.m.; and October 30, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.

     “Take A Giant Step” focuses on the life of a 17-year-old African American male living with his middle class family in an all white New England neighborhood in 1953.  Performers in the production include Ishmael Wright, Ashanti Young, Rashanda Morgan, Kimberly Thomas, Shea-Lin Williams, Laurent Peterson, Tierra Fisher, Kuji Kelly, Ricardo Woolfolk, Robert Brooks, Russell Jackson, and Katherine Tapp.    

      The production will be held in Virginia Union’s new Performing Arts Theatre located in the Belgian Building on the campus of Virginia Union University, 1500 North Lombardy Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220. 

       General admission tickets are available for $10.00.  Admission is free to Virginia Union students.   Please contact Ms. Valerie West-Hill, Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, at 257-5601 for additional information.