Arts & Entertainment Reporter
In "Step Show: The Musical," a freshman at a historically Black college has to decide whether to fight to save a building bearing her grandfather's name.
NORTH ADAMS — Nearly 20 years ago, when Maxine Lyle first thought there should be a musical about step dancing, she didn’t consider herself a playwright. Or a composer. Or a lyricist.
She was a choreographer, one who had devoted much of her career to bringing step — the percussive dance form that emerged in the mid-1900s on Black college campuses — to young people.
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Aaron Simon Gross can be reached at agross@berkshireeagle.com.
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