Pasadena, Calif., and Chicago: Purlie's back in town.(FRONT and CENTER)(Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Estvanik, Nicole
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THE MUSICAL VERSION of the 1960s Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious ran for 19 months on Broadway in the early '70s, earning Tonys for stars Cleavon Little and Melba Moore. Since then, few theatres have tackled Purlie, despite a crowd-pleasing score by Gary Geld and Peter Udell--a melange of gospel, jazz, Dixieland, rhythm and blues--and a jaunty book in which a charismatic Georgia preacher outsmarts a bigoted plantation owner.
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"Ossie once said the purpose of Purlie was to get blacks and whites together to look at racism and laugh it out of ...
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