You see . Evening, ladies and gentlemen, with a book. Welcome to fords theatre. We honestly, i am blown away. The response. I am so thrilled to see all of your lovely faces in the house tonight. Thank you so much for being here. My name is erika scott and im the artistic programing manager here at theater. And im alex wood. Im the Education Programs manager at fords theater. And we are to present written spoke. Yes, written then spoken now African American letters to lincoln. So for the two of us up here, typically you dont get two people to come talk to the house before a program happens. But this is a special this is the first of its kind. We have never done an elevated im calling it an elevated book to where we have our historians and actors to be part of the play. But at fords theatre like to think of ourselves as left and right side of one brain. We have the history aspect and arts aspect, and thats what and i represent and that is what you all are getting tonight. So its a very,
You see . Evening, ladies and gentlemen, with a book. Welcome to fords theatre. We honestly, i am blown away. The response. I am so thrilled to see all of your lovely faces in the house tonight. Thank you so much for being here. My name is erika scott and im the artistic programing manager here at theater. And im alex wood. Im the Education Programs manager at fords theater. And we are to present written spoke. Yes, written then spoken now African American letters to lincoln. So for the two of us up here, typically you dont get two people to come talk to the house before a program happens. But this is a special this is the first of its kind. We have never done an elevated im calling it an elevated book to where we have our historians and actors to be part of the play. But at fords theatre like to think of ourselves as left and right side of one brain. We have the history aspect and arts aspect, and thats what and i represent and that is what you all are getting tonight. So its a very,
You see . Evening, ladies and gentlemen, with a book. Welcome to fords theatre. We honestly, i am blown away. The response. I am so thrilled to see all of your lovely faces in the house tonight. Thank you so much for being here. My name is erika scott and im the artistic programing manager here at theater. And im alex wood. Im the Education Programs manager at fords theater. And we are to present written spoke. Yes, written then spoken now African American letters to lincoln. So for the two of us up here, typically you dont get two people to come talk to the house before a program happens. But this is a special this is the first of its kind. We have never done an elevated im calling it an elevated book to where we have our historians and actors to be part of the play. But at fords theatre like to think of ourselves as left and right side of one brain. We have the history aspect and arts aspect, and thats what and i represent and that is what you all are getting tonight. So its a very,
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