CMU at the Avalon: A Raisin in the Sun

Avalon Theatre
645 Main St, Grand Junction, CO 81501
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Event Description

Join us for CMU at the Avalon! This Fall and Spring we will be showing films that correlate with Colorado Mesa University's theater and dance presentations. 

This showing of the original 1961 "Raisin in the Sun" is the precursor to CMU's performance of Clyborne Park which picks up where the film leaves off. 

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall...