Popular American actress Phylicia Rashad describes Trinidad and Tobago as “magical”.
The actress, who is famous for her portrayal of attorney and mother of five children Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, is visiting T&T for the Carnival season.
As she toured parts of the country yesterday, Rashad, a multiple Emmy and Tony award winner, appeared to be mesmerised by T&T. She said it was similar to what she experienced while working on Broadway in the Original Production of The Wiz in 1975, along with the late Trinidadian actor Geoffrey Holder.
Rashad played a munchkin.
“In the early part of my career, I had the good fortune to work with Geoffrey Holder and now I realise what was so magical about the original production of The Wiz, because he brought Trinidad into that production,” she said.
Holder was a Trinidadian artist, dancer and choreographer who won two Tony awards for his direction and costume design of the all-black musical version of The Wizard of Oz.
“The colour, the rhythm, the magic, Trinidad,” she said.
Since her arrival, Tourism Trinidad has posted photos with Rashad at the Bamboo Cathedral in Chaguaramas and at Phase II Pan Groove’s panyard, where she met veteran composer and arranger Len “Boogsie” Sharpe.
“People don’t understand the steelpan, I mean people outside of your culture do not necessarily understand the magnificence of it, the science of it, the musically of it, the discipline of it, the joy, I could hardly sleep last night,” she said.
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