"I Pray" - Cheryl Pepsii Riley ("Margaret") "That's My Little Girl." - Maurice Lauchner ("John") "What About Us?" - Zuri Craig and Tamar Davis ("Japan" and "China") Shannon Williams as Bobby Tampa Florida.China was once in love with Eric his reappearance lets her rethink her relationship with Bobby. So China secretly invites the whole disreputable brood: Madea ( Tyler Perry), Aunt Bam ( Cassi Davis), and grown children Lucy (Alexis Jones), George (Jeffery Lewis), and Eric ( Tony Grant).
Eager to impress China's super-rich beau/presumed fiancé Bobby (Shannon Williams), Lilian forces Margaret to work on Christmas instead of celebrating with her family. The members of the Mansell family-who can be identified without fear of stereotyping as mean mother Lilian ( Chandra Currelley-Young), pompous father John (Maurice Lauchner), restless daughter China ( Támar Davis), and virginal son Japan (Zuri Craig)-prepare for the holiday feast with the help of their saintly maid Margaret ( Cheryl Pepsii Riley) and their mouthy chef Hattie (Patrice Lovely). It stars Perry as Madea, Cassi Davis as Aunt Bam and Chandra Currelley-Young as Lillian Mansell. Madea, Aunt Bam, Lillian, Margaret, China, Japan, Eric, Hattie, John, George, Lucy, BobbyĪ Madea Christmas is a 2011 American musical play created, written, produced, and directed by Tyler Perry. For the film version, see A Madea Christmas (film). " onclick="return share_popup(this, this.This article is about the original play.
" onclick="return share_popup(this, this.title)" href="javascript: void(0) ">share this video With the creation of the Exarchate of Africa in 590, he further solidified the empire's hold on the western Mediterranean.
In Italy, Maurice established the Exarchate of Ravenna in 584, the first real effort by the Empire to halt the advance of the Lombards. In the West, he established two large semi-autonomous provinces called exarchates, ruled by exarchs, or viceroys, of the emperor. He also conducted campaigns across the Danube, the first Emperor to do so in over two hundred years. Maurice campaigned extensively in the Balkans against the Avars – pushing them back across the Danube by 599. Once he became Emperor, he brought the war with Persia to a victorious conclusion: the Empire's eastern border in the Caucasus was vastly expanded and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Byzantines were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace. Maurice ( Latin : Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus Greek : Φλάβιος Μαυρίκιος Τιβέριος Αὔγουστος) (539 – 27 November 602) was Byzantine Emperor from 582 to 602.Ī prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the Sassanid Persians.