
Rapper, actor Common makes Broadway debut in 'Between Riverside and Crazy'
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Common, a rapper and actor, made his Broadway debut in a show called "Between Riverside and Crazy." The play has won a Pulitzer Prize and is by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis stars Stephen McKinley Henderson, who plays a former New York City police officer whose 30-year career ended after being shot by a white rookie cop. Common plays his ex-con son struggling to do right by his father.
The goal for Common was presenting the character as a "whole person" and not someone discarded by society because he was behind bars or an addict. "That’s not all he is. Junior loves his father. He loves his mother. He actually aspires to do something," Common said.
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