ABSTRACT
John Henry was finished, but it had provided a springboard for the future, and Josh was well equipped for the next leap. “He had a pretty good sense of where he wanted to go,” de Paur remembers. “He was serious about it, which was all you could ask of a person trying to be a professional without any professional background. His background was plowing around the streets with a blind man holding him on the shoulder. He had no idea what ‘professional’ life was like until he landed up here and landed the show with people like Robeson on the stage, and that was a whole new world for him to encounter.”
