Families Valued

I take strong exception to Sean Mitchell’s review of the Sept. 8 Pasadena Playhouse performance of “Blue” (“Singing the Blues,” Sept. 10). I question his point of reference and familiarity with the milieu he is critiquing.

What the audience saw was an authentic, dynamic familial situation--warts and all--of the American black upper-middle class. The geographic location was merely happenstance: thus, the depiction was not provincial.

The play gave us characters, situation, song and humorous emotional release as a moving and deeply human cathartic journey was revealed.

TODD T. COCHRAN

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