Rating: ★★★★ (Out of five) — Cinnabar Theater

“Sometimes,” exhorts actress Sharon E. Scott, stirringly embodying the rich voice and sassy-sweet attitude of the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. “Sometimes, God turns your life upside down—so you can help turn things right side up.”

In the sensational, heartbreaking and soul-lifting biographical theater piece Mahalia Jackson: Just As I Am—running through January 24 at Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma—Scott takes what might have been a straightforward story of an American church singer who became an international star, and creates something much richer than mere biography or impersonation.

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