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Purlie Victorious (A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch) is a three-act comedic stage play written by American actor Ossie Davis. The play tells the fictional story of Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson, a dynamic traveling preacher returning to his hometown in rural Georgia , to save his small hometown church. [ 1 ]
Gone Are the Days! or Purlie Victorious is a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge. It is based on the 1961 Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which was written by Davis. [1] Davis, Dee, Cambridge, Beah Richards, Sorrell Booke and Alan Alda (in his film debut), reprised their roles from the Broadway ...
Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South.Its focus is on the dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation.
Leslie Odom Jr. returns to Broadway to star in "Purlie Victorious," a moving yet satirical play set in the Jim Crow era, written by legend Ossie Davis. ... the first time the show returns to a New ...
Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young. ... and Leon clears the way so that the play can run at ...
"My prayer is that the next Ossie Davis is out there, the next Ruby Dee is out there," he shared.
Purlie Victorious: Purlie Victorious / Also writer: Cort Theatre, Broadway 1963: Ballad for Bimshire: Sir Radio: Mayfair Theatre 1865: The Zulu and the Zayda: Johannes: Cort Theatre 1972: Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death: Performer: Ethel Barrymore Theatre 1979: Take It from the Top: The Lord / Also director: New Federal Theatre 1983: Zora ...
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