Derived from Alan Paton's popular book ''Cry, the Beloved Country,'' this musical follows Stephen Kumalo, an honest black preacher in apartheid-era South Africa, who decamps to big-city Johannesburg hoping to find his estranged son John . He discovers, however, that John is now a criminal with a pregnant girlfriend, Irina . Becoming increasingly concerned, Stephen fears that his son's dark ways will lead him to jail -- or possibly death.
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