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DCist: Is This Musical About Frederick Douglass The Next Big Broadway Hit To Get Its Start In D.C.?

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One bright stage light shines on Cornelius Smith Jr. — an actor best known for his role as Marcus Walker, sidekick to Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope in the hit TV show Scandal — who stands on a minimally designed set in Arena Stage. Smith begins reciting the words from Frederick Douglass’ 1845 memoir about his earliest years being born a slave with no real birthdate and separated from his mother who would die early in his life.

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