Purlie
Contributors: Jo, Patti; Wallace, Art; Hemsley, Sherman, 1938-2012; Lewis, Carol Jean; Breslin, Tommy; Martin, Helen, 1909-2000; Monroe, Shirley; Brown, Joyce, 1939-; Rose, Philip, 1921-2011; Udell, Peter; Geld, Gary; Davis, Ossie; Coe, Richard L. (Richard Livingstone), 1914-1995, annotator; National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1972
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Philip Rose presents "Purlie," a new musical comedy, based on the play "Purlie Victorious," by Ossie Davis, starring Robert Guillaume, Patti Jo, Art Wallace, Sherman Hemsley, Carol Jean Lewis, Tommy Breslin, Helen Martin, Shirley Monroe, music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell, book by Davis-Rose-Udell, scenery by Ben Edwards, lighting by Thomas Skelton, costumes by Ann Roth, hair styles by Ernest Adler, orchestrations and choral arrangements by Garry Sherman and Luther Henderson, musical supervisor Garry Sherman, musical conductor Joyce Brown, dance music arranged by Luther Henderson, chroreography by Louis Johnson, directed by Philip Rose.
Notes: National Theatre, March, 1972.

"Playbill. Volume 9. March 1972. Issue 3"--p. 3.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Robert Guillaume, Shirley Monroe, Patti Jo, Carol Jean Lewis, Sherman Hemsley, Andy Torres, Lonnie McNeil, Ted Ross, Tommy Breslin, Helen Martin, Art Wallace. Dancers: Zelda Pulliam, Doris deMendez, Linda Griffin, Debbie Palmer, Joan Palmer, Cleo Quitman, Michel Silva, Donald Ray Shannon, Évery Hayes, Raphael Gilbert, Ted Goodridge, Lonnie McNeil, Charles Neal, Andy Torres. Singers: Laura Coooper, Demarest Grey, Synthia Jackson, Barbara Joy, Shirley Monroe, Frances Salisbury, Vanessa Shaw, Billy Abernathy, D. Morris Brown, Howard Porter, Ted Ross, Joe Williams Jr.

LC copy has notations by Coe.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).