“History is the river we stand in,” says Chet (Charlie Hudson III), to an already captive audience in the Crossroads Theatre production of “Fly.”
The play by artistic director Ricardo Khan and novelist/screenwriter Trey Ellis follows the journeys of four young African-American men in America’s first group of black military airmen, the “Tuskegee Airmen.” Omar Edwards’ decidedly moving tap dance performance begins the show, to a video backdrop of the unit’s history.
