page_title: Purlie
section_title: Musical numbers
hierarchical_section_title: Purlie / Musical numbers
caption_attribution_description: Melba Moore and Cleavon Little from the Broadway musical Purlie.
context_page_description: Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell and music by Gary Geld. It is based on Davis's 1961 play Purlie Victorious, which was later made into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included many of the original Broadway cast, including Davis, Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, Godfrey Cambridge, and Sorrell Booke.
context_section_description: Act I
  Walk Him Up the Stairs
  Newfangled Preacher Man
  Skinnin' a Cat
  Purlie
  The Harder They Fall
  Charlie's Songs: The Barrels of War; The Unborn Love
  Big Fish, Little Fish
  I Got Love
  Great White Father
  Skinnin' a Cat
  Down Home
   
  Act II
  First Thing Monday Mornin'
  He Can Do It
  The Harder They Fall (Reprise)
  The World Is Comin' to a Start
  Walk Him Up the Stairs (Reprise)
caption: Melba Moore and Cleavon Little in the original Broadway production (1970)
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