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Shows · Hallelujah, Baby! · Martin Beck Theatre, 1967

Hallelujah, Baby!, 1967

Opened April 26, 1967

Closed January 13, 1968

293 performances

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Original

Broadway

5 Tony Awards

Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 86th longest run.

Who was in it38 named

Lou Angel
Carol Flemming
Nat Gales
Frank Hamilton
Winston Dewitt Hemsley
Justin Mcdonough
Saundra Mcpherson
Garrett Morris
Michele Murray
Darrell Notara
Alan Peterson
Ann Rachel
Suzanne Rogers
Paul Reid Roman
Kenneth Scott
Don Strong
Bud Vest
Clifford Allen
Judith Austin
Michael Beirne
Lee Hooper
Bernard Johnson
Carolyn Kirsch
Dale Moreda
Larry Roquemore
Ella Thompson
Billy Dee Williams

Creative team

Director
Burt Shevelove
Choreographer
Kevin Carlisle

Tony Awards 5 from 7 nominations

Best Musical
Won

Recordings

1 recording of Hallelujah, Baby! exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Hallelujah, Baby! for all of them.

Around this production

Hallelujah, Baby! is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and a book by Arthur Laurents. The show is "a chronicle of the African American struggle for equality during the [first half of the] 20th century." The musical premiered on Broadway in 1967 and made a young Leslie Uggams a star. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical. In 2004, Laurents restaged the show twice with the same cast, in Washington D.C at the Arena Stage and at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey, in order to update and streamline the story for modern sensibilities, and potentially move to New York for a full revival. The score was updated by Adolph Green's daughter, Amanda Gree…

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