The Prodigal Sister
by J E. Franklin, Micki Grant
Synopsis
In this updated, musical version of The Prodigal Son, Jackie is a pregnant, high-school, African-American girl from a backwater town who takes off for Baltimore to escape her parents wrath.
There she takes up with street people and winds up working in a coffin factory which is a front for drug dealers and prostitutes.
But when trouble in her new life finally sends Jackie back home, all turns out well and all is forgiven.
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"Entertaining, innocently charming...There's something there that everybody will love."
— New York Amsterdam News
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The Prodigal Sister is a play written by J E. Franklin and published by Concord Theatricals (1975).
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Concord Theatricals · 1975 · 60 pp
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