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Mar 2020
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Encore: 'The King And The Cobbler'

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This week we present a favorite story from the archives: Keith David (Greenleaf) and Tony Award winner James Naughton (City of Angels, Chicago) play a curious, disguised king and a cobbler who proves the power of self-reliance. Sign up for our monthly newsletter, "The Lion's Roar", here.
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