The Theater: Oh, When the Saints...

YOUR ARMS TOO SHORT TO BOX WITH GOD

Conceived and Directed by VINNETTE CARROLL

Music and Lyrics by ALEX BRADFORD

Additional Music and Lyrics by MICKI GRANT

Choreography by TALLEY BEATTY

They are making a joyful noise unto the Lord at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. But the revivalist songfest is only half the show. The other half is a bacchanalia, a swinging, stomping dance orgy.

Vinnette Carroll, who wrote and staged Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, was responsible a few seasons back for a similar hit, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. She seems to...

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