String of Pearls

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The Greater U Street Theatre Group

Flyer for String of Pearls Play

Celebrate Valentine's Day weekend with the dazzling love story of Nettie and Sam. The Greater U Street Theatre Group, Maryland Hall, and Banneker-Douglass Museum are proud to present the jazz musical 'String of Pearls'. This captivating musical tells the love story of Nettie and Sam, sharecroppers who dare to preserve their love in a daring and ingenious escape from the Chikoree Wood Cotton Plantation to Washington, D.C.’s Greater U Street neighborhood. The adventures, calamities, and flashes of joy and wonder they encounter are the thread that holds them together--The String of Pearls.