![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, Allen opened the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles harkening back to the days when she played the title role of dance instructor in Fame. He's equally adept with the interiors of the church as with rooftop scenes of the boys whooping it up under starlit skies. Debbie Allen Brothers of the Knight School & Library Binding Picture Book, 1 Mar. Featured among her Kennedy Center productions from 1995-2000 are Pepito’s Story, Soul Possessed, Pearl, and Brothers of the Knight. Successfully capturing the energy of the swirling, twirling nighttime revelers, first-time children's book artist Nelson's sepia-toned illustrations possess the precision of line accorded to pen-and-inks, filled out with a full palette of oil paints. They don't and she quits, but all ends happily. There they swing till dawn, returning home with shoes ""worn to threads, messed up, torn up, stinky, dirty, tacky, jacked up."" Sunday, a sharp, attractive housekeeper with magical powers, discovers the siblings' secret, but she keeps mum, waiting instead until the kids themselves are ready to 'fess up to their dad. Her books include Brothers of the Night, Dancing in the Wings, and Amistad: Give us Free. ![]() ![]() but a lot was goin' on that couldn't be explained."" Actress, choreographer and producer Allen gives a familiar tale a hip spin as the brothers dance each night from one roof to the next to reach the Big Band Ballroom. Narrating the tale in a chatty if somewhat rambling voice, the family dog, Happy, explains that this man ""raised his sons with a firm, loving hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses have nothin' on the 12 sons of Reverend Knight, a Harlem preacher. ![]()
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