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...1890s, the story focuses on Harry Brown Jr., a black hoofer played with high-stepping panache by Glynn Turman. Dreaming of fame on the minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...
...Business Wiz...
...them-are black. Porgy and Bess, returning in the full operatic panoply of George Gershwin's original version (TIME, July 19), has for four straight weeks broken all box-office records for a legitimate Broadway show. The black edition of Guys and Dolls, the long-running The Wiz (Oz over a different rainbow), and Bubbling Brown Sugar, a revue celebrating Harlem in its Cotton Club heyday, are all doing turnaway business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about being black and female that is one of the most poignant...
Eternal Optimist. By the time 1600 reached its next road stop, Washington, Producers Roger L. Stevens and Robert Whitehead signed a new director-choreographer team: Gilbert Moses, 33, and George Faison, 30, both black activists who had worked together on the hit black musical The Wiz...
...Michael Leckie W 16 1 3 4 2 0 Bryan Cook C 20 1 3 4 2 0 Charlie Petersen W 11 1 0 1 0 0 Peter Owen W 7 0 1 1 6 0 Franco Scalamandre D 2 0 1 1 0 0 Wiz Wyatt W 7 0 0 0 0 0 Murray Dea W 2 0 0 0 2 0 John Dunderdale W 1 0 0 0 0 0 Brian Petrovek G 23 0 0 0 2 0 John Aiken G 6 0 0 0 2 0 HARVARD G 26 134 223 357 315 13 OPPONENTS...