A by-the-numbers peek inside Dobama Theatre's 15-actor, 64-scene holiday musical, 'A Civil War Christmas'
Armed with a series of Excel spreadsheets, director Nathan Motta keeps track of 15 actors playing 60 roles, including Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a freed slave and Mrs. Lincoln's confidant; and the country's most infamous actor, John Wilkes Booth.