St. Louis Woman Hangs Her Hat in Philly.(Review) (theater review)
American Theatre, September, 2000 by Zinman, Toby
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The last time St. Louis Woman played Philadelphia, it was 1946, and the all-black musical was on its bumpy way to Broadway.
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The show has a past as checkered as its characters' suits. First it was a novel, God Sends Sunday, whose author Arna Bontemps collaborated in 1937 with fellow Harlem Renaissance luminary Countee Cullen to turn his book into a play. After a brief run, the stage version was forgotten until 1944, when Hollywood producer Edward Gross, encouraged by the huge success of ...
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