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ARNA BONTEMPS |
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Plays by Arna Bontemps |
Cavalcade of the Negro Theatre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Written for the Negro Exposition, Chicago, Ill | Summer 1940 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135620 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Pageant 21 scenes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Bontemps, Arna, And Langston Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | The Negro in the theatre from The Octoroon, by Dion Boucicault, to 1940s Chicago jazz and gospel singing | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Free and Easy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Holland, Belgium and france | 1959-1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135621 | |||
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Genre: | play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Adaptation of Countee Cullen's musical comedy, St. Louis Woman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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St Louis Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Gilpin Players, Karamu Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio | Nov 1933 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Theater, ed. by Lindsay Patterson, New York: Dodd, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Angel (64662) 1946 | doollee no | #132782 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 22 BM, 7 BF, extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by Johnny Mercer (added later); book by Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen. (Martin Beck Theater, New York, Mar. 1946) | |||||
| St Louis 1898. Augie a jockey is having a very successful run of wins. He is in love with Della. Della is trying to end an abusive relationship with bar owner Biglow Brown. At the bar Augie demonstrates the cakewalk and attracts Della's attention. Lilla is also there - she is Brown's ex-lover and is still very much in love with her. Della and Augie plan to get married. Whilst Augie is away racing Brown visits Della and beats her up. Lilla has followed him - then Augie returns. Lilla shoots Brown but Brown thinks that Augie did it and with his dying breath curses him. The curse seems to work Augie stops winning races and Della decides to move away convinced that it is all her fault. When Augie discovers why she is leaving he determines to win the next race and prove the curse wrong | |||||
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When the Jack Hollers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135622 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Folk Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 8 BM, 7 BF, 5 WM | |||||
Notes: | written by Bontemps, Arna, And Langston Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | Black and white sharecroppers in Mississippi delta both suffer from a merciless landowner until Aunt Billie's voodoo, an amazing mule, and a fish fry unite the races against the exploiter. | |||||
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