- Description
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Bubblin' Brown Sugar / Avon Long [theatrical performance]
- Title
- Bubblin' Brown Sugar [Theatrical Performance]
- Performers
- Long, Avon
- Washington, Vernon
- Lee, Mable
- Coles, Charles "Honi"
- Brown, James "Buster"
- Published/Created
- 1976-03-02
- Genre
- Theatrical Performance
- Venue
- ANTA Playhouse
- Abstract
- A musical revue in two acts, 9 Scenes. Book by Loften Mitchell. Based on a concept by Rosetta LeNoire. Robert M. Cooper, dir. choreography and musical staging by Billy Wilson. Musical direction by Danny Holgate. Music by Lil Harden Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and W.C. Handy. Opened 2 Match 1976 at the ANTA Theatre and closed 31 December 1976 after 766 performances.
Cast: Vernon Washington, Carolyn Byrd (Carolyn), Vivian Reed, Josephine Premice, Avon Long, Vernon Washington as Time Man.
All African-American revue retrospective of a bygone Harlem with featured songs by Lil Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Earl "Fatha" Hines, W.C. Handy. The evening's best moments came when it sang its older songs and did its older dances, notably when Avon Long sang Bert Williams' "Nobody" and Vernon Washington recalled Bill Robinson's brand of tapping.
The show received the 1976 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Billy Wilson: 1976 Tony Award Nomination for Best Choreography.
In 1976 Mable Lee began a five-year national tour of "Bubbling Brown Sugar" playing the lead role (of Carolyn); with Charles "Honi" Coles, Cab Calloway and James "Buster" Brown and other stars. - Source
- Norton Anthology of Drama: Norton Anthology of Drama: Nineteenth Century to the Present (Vol. 2). W.W. Norton & Company (2009).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015