I had the unexpected pleasure of talking with Charles Azulay last week. I met Charles when I was about fourteen (and he was even younger), doing children's theatre. We went on to do a production of Anything Goes and Hair at McMaster University. Pretty sure he sang "Three Five Zero Zero." Yes, I was a pretty big musical theatre nerd! But not as much as Charles, who went on to do it professionally for decades. Anyway, I hadn't seen Charles in over 30 years, so this reunion was an absolute delight.

Charles' memoir Uncoloured tells some of those tales but also talks about his life growing up as a black child in a white family and the struggled he faced as a youth. Check it out!