PORT ANGELES — Well-known actor John Amos arrived in Port Angeles on Wednesday to tell an elderly African-American’s tale to people of all ages, colors and cultures.
After 15 years of the one-man show “Halley’s Comet,” the story still resonates, he said — with everyone.
“They get it,” Amos, 65, said in his butterscotch-smooth baritone shortly after arriving at William R. Fairchild International Airport.
“They get the words of this old man.”
Amos’ “old man” reflects on the 76 years that have passed since he first saw the famous comet as a 10-year-old boy and the present.
Although “not one word” has changed in “Halley’s Comet,” Amos said, “it still has a challenge and a feeling of freshness.”
“It has as much resonance now as when we first conceived and wrote the piece 15 years ago,” he said, speaking of himself and John Harris.
Harris is director and co-producer of the play with whom Amos has worked for two decades.
“If I’m successful in what I do, audiences hopefully will see their grandfather or great-grandfather, or perhaps the matriarch in their family who is telling them a story,” Amos said.
Public performance Friday
The public performance of “Halley’s Comet” will start at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 204 Park Ave.
Tickets are available at the door and cost $12 for adults and $6 for people 20 and younger.
Members of the military, Amos said, are invited to be his personal guests.
Amos, star of “Roots” and “The West Wing,” among other TV and film dramas, alighted from a Kenmore Air Express plane wearing a Kansas City Chiefs’ cap and walking with a cane.