Bubbling Brown Sugar
ANTA Theatre
Previews Began: February 20, 1976
Opening Night: March 2, 1976
Closing Night: December 31, 1977
Music: Multiple Artists
Lyrics: Multiple Artists
Book: Loften Mitchell
The musical vitality of Harlem in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s is reexamined in this revue featuring classic and new songs.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Harlem ’70
Bubbling Brown Sugar
That’s What Harlem Is to Me
Bill Robinson Specialty
Harlem Sweet Harlem
Nobody
Goin’ Back in Time
Some of These Days
Moving Uptown
Strolling
I’m Gonna Tell God All My Troubles
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Sweet Georgia Brown
Honeysuckle Rose
Stormy Monday Blues
Rosetta
Sophisticated Lady
In Honeysuckle Time, When Emaline Said She’d Be Mine
Solitude
C’mon Up to Jive Time
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Take the ‘A’ Train
ACT TWO
Harlem – Time
Love Will Find a Way
Dutch’s Song
Brown Gal
Pray for the Lights to Go Out
I Got It Bad
Harlem Makes Me Feel!
Jim, Jam, Jumpin’ Jive
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
God Bless the Child
It Don’t Mean a Thing
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Joseph Attles Checkers
Dusty
Avon Long John Sage
Rusty
Josephine Premice Irene Paige
Vivian Reed Marsha
Young Irene
Ethel Beatty Ella
Carolyn Byrd Carolyn
Gospel Lady
Female Nightclub Singer
Chip Garnett Jim
Male Nightclub Singer
Barry Preston Charlie
Count
Barbara Rubenstein Judy
Dutch’s Girl
Vernon Washington Bill
Time Man
Bumpy
Emcee
Murphy Cross Chorus
Nedra Dixon Chorus
Karen Grannum Norma
Charlise Harris Laura
Emme Kemp Chorus
Alton Lathrop Gene
Gospel Lady’s Son
One of the Solitunes
Lonnie McNeil Skip
Young Checkers
One of the Solitunes
Stanley Ramsey Chorus
Dyann Robinson Helen
Anthony Whitehouse Tony
Waiter
Dutch
Newton Winters Ray
Young Sage
One of the Solitunes
Swings: Millard Hurley, Carol Pennyfeather
Standby: Vernon Washington (John Sage, Rusty)
Understudies: David Bryant (Checkers, Dusty, Bill, Time Man, Bumpy, Emcee), E. Lynn Nickerson (Tony, Waiter, Dutch, Charlie, Count)