October 08, 2006

another raisin'

Everyone go watch Raisin!

Damn awesome musical about racial segregation right here in Chicago (based on the novel A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry). Awesome plot, awesome staging, awesome actors/ singers! :D

A Dream Deferred
- Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore --
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over --
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?