- Description
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The Shoo Fly Regiment / Bob Cole [theatrical performance]
- Title
- The Shoo Fly Regiment [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Cole, Bob
- J. Rosamond Johnson
- Published/Created
- 1907-08-06
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Bijou Theater
- Abstract
- Bordman writes: The Shoo Fly Regiment was an all-black show by Cole and Johnson, designed to entertain "an audience composed mostly of whites." The story followed a regiment recruited from the Lincolnville Institute into the Spanish-American War. "Vermillion-cheeked colored girls in scarlet gowns" accompany them. Much to their own surprise, the young soldiers win a battle and return as heroes. One outstanding number was "Lit'l Gal" a song written for The Cannibal King, an earlier Cole and Johnson effort that never reached the big time. The published lyrics are credited to Paul Laurence Dunbar.
- Source
- Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015