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2. Purlie Victorious - Wikipedia

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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 ]

3. Purlie - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Gone Are the Days! - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Review: Ossie Davis' 'Purlie Victorious,' back on Broadway ...

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   “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” Ossie Davis’ 1961 satiric farce that was the basis for the 1963 film "Gone Are the Days!" and the 1970 musical “Purlie ...

6. 'Plays still matter to the health of Broadway': Leslie Odom ...

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   The Tony nominee explains why this 'Purlie Victorious,' premiering Friday on PBS' Great Performances series, isn't a musical — and why it's all the better for it.

7. Tony Awards 2024: The Complete Winners List - AOL

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   Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. William Jackson Harper - Uncle Vanya.

8. Leslie Odom Jr. wants us to hear the melodic words of ‘Purlie ...

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   “Purlie Victorious” may not be a musical, but to its lead star, Leslie Odom Jr., the words of this six-decade-old play are melodic. Odom, best known on Broadway for his Tony-winning ...

9. Why Leslie Odom Jr. Is the Happiest He’s Ever Been in ‘Purlie ...

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   “Purlie Victorious” also marks the culmination of a long-held desire to bring the 1961 Ossie Davis play back to prominence. He recalled that he surprised himself with the idea when, soon after ...