Steve On Broadway (SOB): "Come Tuesday, the composition of the Weston family will experience a dynamic change when one of the stage's most celebrated and accomplished contemporary actresses, Phylicia Rashad, assumes the mantle of matriarch. When I first learned that Rashad would join the cast, I was positively intrigued. I had wistfully imagined whether she might be joined by James Earl Jones, along with some of the stage's top African American actors, so they might do for August what they had done for other classics like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
However, in the latest attempt at color-blind casting, Rashad's Violet will just happen be mother to three white daughters. Will it matter?"
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