If you have a weakness for flashy costumes, great pop-opera singing, and a 30-piece professional pit orchestra, you would have treasured the performance of “Jackie O” by N.C. Central and the Long Leaf Opera Company.

America’s most famous and beloved First Lady, Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, was played by Elizabeth Williams-Grayson of Durham, who displayed will, might, and pain with her stirring soprano voice.

Additional energy and powerful voices were injected into the play by two NCCU students, Tonya Williamson and Jamye Harris, and one alumna, Ayeje Femster.

The play vividly renactes Jackie O’s days as John F. Kennedy’s wife and widow. It then ended by making heads spin with an enormous U.S. flag and dance sequence showing Jackie O that “The New Frontier Is Here.”