BTW, the play was pretty good when I saw it in Berkeley Rep, but even there it was beyond most folks’ means. yet it needs to go there to get to a mass audience, and most things–even good or great ones–never make it. Also, I appreciated it, but not as much as when I heard it was knocking off socks in NY, then that Spike Lee would film it. Even my primary experience did not mean as much as it does now seeing it on public tv. There it is not only a celebration in the Church of Art, as you have it, but also part of the larger and less fundamental Church of Mass Media.