- Description
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A Trip to Coontown / Bob Cole [theatrical performance]
- Title
- A Trip to Coontown [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Cole, Bob
- Johnson, Billy
- Published/Created
- 1896-04-04
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- Third Avenue Theater
- Abstract
- A Trip to Coontown, which opened at the Third Avenue Theatre on April 4, was a landmark in that it was entirely written, performed, and produced by blacks. It was the creation of two particularly talented Negroes, Bob Cole and Billy Johnson. Johnson played Jim Flimflammer, a "bunco steerer" (what today we would call a "con man") who tries to fleece old Silas Green out of a $5,000 pension, but is outsmarted by the old man. Cole played a tramp called Wayside Willie. The show created no stir on Broadway.
- Source
- Bordman, Gerald: American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. New York: Oxford University Press (1992).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015