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- But Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to hit Broadway (collaborating with Lloyd Richards, a black director), and the play she took there in 1959 has been enormously influential.
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- Bert Williams in The Ziegfeld Follies, 1910. Bert Williams had his first success when he teamed up with George Walker in 1895 in a comic act that pitted Walker's fast-talking city slicker against Williams' slow-moving country bumpkin.
- Charles Gilpin in The Emperor Jones, 1920. With a few rare exceptions, Black roles in dramatic plays on Broadway had been performed by white actors who used burnt cork or greasepaint to make themselves appear darker.
- Shuffle Along, 1921. There had been earlier all-Black musicals on Broadway but they were old-fashioned affairs like A Trip to Coontown and borrowed heavily from the minstrel tradition.
- Porgy and Bess, 1935. Arguably the best-known Black musical ever to play on Broadway, Porgy and Bess was written by a trio of white men: the brothers George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward, a southerner who wrote the novel Porgy about a crippled beggar who lives in the poor Black fishing community of Catfish Row and falls for the local bad-girl Bess.
Tony Award for Best Original Score. On the Twentieth Century is a musical with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Cy Coleman. Based partly on the 1932 play Twentieth Century and its 1934 film adaptation, the musical is part operetta, part farce and part screwball comedy. The story involves the behind-the-scenes ...
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Cy Coleman
- 1981
Feb 3, 2024 · A flyer from the African Company, the first professional Black theater group in America, which was founded in 1820 and performed at the African Grove, at Bleecker and Mercer Streets in downtown Manhattan. The theater’s founder, William Alexander Brown, is credited with having written the first play by a Black writer produced in America ...
Feb 12, 2022 · Story on the life and influence of Vinnette Carroll, the first black woman to direct a play on Broadway. The 1972 play was “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t C
(Feb 19, 1978 - Mar 18, 1979) Setting. Mainly on the Twentieth Century Limited from Chicago to New York. The early 1930's. People. Songs. Awards. Production Staff. Opening Night Cast. Replacements. Theatre Owned / Operated by Jujamcyn Theaters (under the direction of Richard G. Wolff, President)
Feb 25, 2022 · In honor of Black History Month, Broadway Direct celebrates the monumental firsts and significant moments in Black history on Broadway that continue to make a lasting influence on theater and beyond. Here are 11 important Black theater moments that have impacted the theater industry as we know it.
Jan 27, 2022 · The First Black Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera” As Broadway’s longest-running production, “The Phantom of the Opera” represents not only a wildly popular show, but a historic one. That makes it all the more significant for Illinois native Emilie Kouatchou to make history herself as the first Black woman cast as the show’s ...
