Purlie Victorious, 1961

The run closed May 13, 1962

Opened

September 28, 1961

Closed

May 13, 1962

Performances

261

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 95th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it8 named

Ruby Dee
Sorrell Booke
Godfrey M Cambridge
Roger C Carmel
Ci Herzog
Helen Martin
Beah Richards

1 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Howard Da Silva

Producer

Philip Rose

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Purlie Victorious at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.