An unabashed Blair Underwood fan letter.

OK, I admit it.  I’m a fan.  I think Blair Underwood is a talented actor, on stage and on screen.

In the last few months I’ve gotten to see him storm onto the stage as “Othello”, dredlocks flowing, owning the part.

This weekend he played “Ludie”, the beleaguered son of an elderly woman played by Cicely Tyson — with one dream:  to return to her home town “Bountiful”.

Blair’s kindness, insight, fear, entrapment, consternation all came through, and we related to him as the son with a difficult parent… the husband trapped between mother and wife… the man who’s sometimes still a boy but needs to be a man.

When we went backstage, I didn’t have the words to tell him all that.  So tonight I let him know how the best thing I can do is tell everyone to see the show — and let you see it for yourself.

https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/Trip-to-Bountiful-The/?gclid=CN–8vHiisECFRVufgodXlcABA