Black Ensemble Theater's Legends the Musical is saved by the audience
Jackie Taylor mixes history, personal essay, racial justice, and music to mixed effect. Entering the Black Ensemble Theater, home to a company with the mission of eradicating racism, theatergoers are offered refrains of "Welcome to the Healing." That's the title of the opening number of Jackie Taylor's Legends the Musical: A Civil Rights Movement, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.…