Hallelujah, Baby!

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 682 words | Copyright

Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), a musical play by Arthur Laurents (book), Betty Comden, Adolph Green (music, lyrics). [Martin Beck Theatre, 293 perf.; Tony Award.] Sixty years of African‐American culture were surveyed in this episodic musical chronicle in which ghetto dweller Georgina ( Leslie Uggams) moves through the decades without hardly getting older, ending up in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Notable songs: My Own Morning; Now's the Time; Feet Do Yo' Stuff. Wavering between earnest social commentary and brassy Broadway entertainment, the show received mixed notices, but there were plenty of compliments for Uggams's Tony Award‐winning performance.

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