LAURENCE RIVERS PRESENTS "THE GREEN PASTURES," A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY. Souvenir Program.; Production Designed by Robert Edmond Jones. Music under the direction of Hall Johnson. Play Staged by the Author. Pulitzer Prize Play, 1930. Chicago Premier Monday evening, Sept. 7, 1931

Published by Al Greenstone, NY, 1931

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16pp; text illus from photographs of the play on stage, actors, music director, etc. Bound in pictorial wrappers showing a scene from the play. 11.75" x 8.75" Connelly's play, featuring an all-Black cast, and based on Roark Bradford's "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'," won the Pulitzer Prize for 1930. "Green Pastures" comprises episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African-American girl in the Depression-era South. The play is uplifted by African-American spirituals, arranged by Hall Johnson and performed by The Hall Johnson Choir.

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LAURENCE RIVERS PRESENTS "THE GREEN PASTURES," A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY. Souvenir Program.; Production Designed by Robert Edmond Jones. Music under the direction of Hall Johnson. Play Staged by the Author. Pulitzer Prize Play, 1930. Chicago Premier Monday evening, Sept. 7, 1931
Author
Connelly, Marc
Publisher
Al Greenstone, NY
Publication year
1931
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Edition
First edition thus.
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Ethnic Studies, Stage & Cinema

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R & A Petrilla, Booksellers We have been selling books and ephemera by mail and at retail locations since 1970, online since 1995. We are generalist antiquarians with some depth in Americana and travel, although our interests are broad. ~~ We appraise libraries and documents for purposes of tax-deductible gifts, insurance coverage, and settling estates.

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