Melba Moore

On stage 4 productions, 19 years

1968	Hair Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Tom O’Horgan	1,750 perf.
1970	Purlie Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Philip Rose	688 perf.
1978	Timbuktu! Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Geoffrey Holder	221 perf.
1987	Les Miserables Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Trevor Nunn & John Caird	6,680 perf.

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Worked with more than once1 names

Ray Pollard

2 productions

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Also credited on1 work

Kismet

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In the literature8 passages

• Then came a flashback in which Purlie brought home Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins (Melba Moore)—a name that Purlie said was “an assault to the Negro people.” Lutiebelle thought that Purlie’s home was “nice,” but he felt it never would be “until I own it.”Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia
• MERLE DEBUSKEY: Ossie Davis had written the comedy Purlie Victorious nearly a decade before Purlie opened with Cleavon Little and Melba Moore. While Ossie was assistant stage manager for The World of Sholem Aleichem , we encouraged him to write a libretto based on his play. And so out of our little company, which developed from The World…It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• Cast: Steve Curry, Ronald Dyson, Sally Eaton, Leata Galloway, Paul Jabara, Diane Keaton, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, Shelley Plimpton, James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Lamont WashingtonBroadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• Cast: Cleavon Little, Melba Moore, John Heffernan, Sherman Hemsley, Novella Nelson, George FaisonBroadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• Although Hair featured no big names, it launched the careers of Diane Keaton, Tim Curry, Melba Moore, Donna Summer, Peter Gallagher, Nell Carter, Joe Mantegna, Meat Loaf, Ben Vereen, Cliff DeYoung, and others.Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh
• Melba Moore and Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu! , based on the musical Kismet. Credit: PhotofestGreat White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman

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