Robert Guillaume
Purlie Victorious Judson
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Jun 18, 1982 · Purlie: Directed by Rudi Goldman. With Robert Guillaume, Sherman Hemsley, Rhetta Hughes, Melba Moore. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery.
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- Comedy, Family, Musical
- Rudi Goldman
- 1982-06-18
Jan 8, 2017 · In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who w...
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- Broadway History
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Synopsis. Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and ...
Poor, neglected PURLIE! A rousing musical retread of Ossie Davis' solid play and movie from a decade earlier, PURLIE VICTORIOUS, coming at the end of the 60's Civil Rights movement, it won Tonys for Cleavon Little (four years before he would steal the show in Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES) and Melba Moore (who turned the hit song "I Got Love" into a career), played 690 performances from March 15 ...
Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld.
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This production was taped at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx in July 1981. It was first shown on television part of the "Broadway on Showt...
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