Lauren Williams makes a strong, energetic Mary. Dan Manning plays Joseph with authority, humor and a fine singing voice. As the angel Gabriel, Travis Hudson touchingly portrays a youth struggling to overcome his inadequacy. (Although equipped with the traditional trumpet, he can't play it.)
Timothy Andres Pabon portrays evil in three guises - an enigmatic man in a modern gray suit and tie, a courier whose Hispanic accent goes oddly with his Biblical garments, and King Herod, whose megalomania and paranoia bring the show to its tragic but hopeful climax. Pabon invests each character with an individual brand of subtle menace.
Director Lee Mikeska Gardner keeps the production going smoothly and with solid dramatic effect.
