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Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.
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]
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.
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.
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 ...
Leslie Odom Jr. isn’t just the star of the new, critically acclaimed Broadway revival of “Purlie Victorious.” He’s also one of its producers. The combination is really working for him.
Kara Young, “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch” *WINNER Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical Roger Bart, “Back To The Future: The ...
As Town & Country 's 10th annual Philanthropy Summit is underway today at Hearst Tower, Leslie Odom Jr., star of screen and stage and current producer of Purlie Victorious on Broadway, joined a ...