- Jericho-Jim Crow
Infobox Musical
name= Jericho-Jim Crow
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music= Various
lyrics= Various
book=William Hairston
Langston Hughes
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productions=1964 Off-Broadway
awards="Jericho-Jim Crow" is a critically acclaimed
1964 play written byLangston Hughes . It was a pioneering work in theurban contemporary gospel musical style, based on the themes of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. According toArnold Rampersad , a Hughes scholar, Hughes had “virtually pioneered” the black gospel musical, first with "Black Nativity " (1961) and then with "Jericho-Jim Crow" [http://www.nyfos.org/?body=notes&program=1995langston] .Book:
William Hairston and Langston Hughes Premiere: Sunday, January 5, 1964 at the Sanctuary Theatre, (New York) . It was co-directed byAlvin Ailey and William Hairston and conducted by Hugh Porter. Marion Joseph Franklin, Jr. was associate musical director and musical accompanist.(A 1964
New York Times Review by Richard F. Shepard [http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/22/specials/hughes-jericho.html] )Original Cast
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Joseph Attles
*William Cain
*Dorothy Drake
*Micki Grant
*Rosalie King
*Metrogene Myles
*Gilbert Price ongs
* A meeting here tonight
* I'm on my way
*I been 'Buked and I been Scorned
* Such a little king
* Is Massa Gwine to sell us tomorrow?
* How much do you want me to bear?
* Where will I lie down?
*Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
*John Brown's Body
*The Battle Hymn of the Republic
* Slavery chain done broke at last
*Oh, Freedom
* Go down, Moses
*Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
* Stay in the field
* Freedom land
* God's gonna cut you down
* Better leave segregation alone
* My mind on freedom
*We Shall Overcome
* The battle of old Jim Crow
* Come and go with me
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