Purlie
Broadway Theatre
March 15, 1970 - Decemer 15, 1970
Winter Garden Theatre
December 16, 1970 - March 13, 1971
ANTA Playhouse
March 15, 1971 - November 6, 1971
Previews Began: -
Opening Night: March 15, 1970
Closing Night: November 6, 1971
Music: Gary Geld
Lyrics: Peter Udell
Book: Ossie Davis
Philip Rose
Peter Udell
A black man dreams of being a preacher and works to take control of the church in his small Georgia community despite the community’s difficult relationships with neighboring whites.
Musical Numbers
Act One
Walk Him Up the Stairs………………………Company
New Fangled Preacher Man……………………..Purlie
Skinnin’ a Cat………………………Gitlow, Field Hands
Purlie…………………………………………………Lutiebelle
The Harder They Fall………………Purlie, Lutiebelle
Charlie’s Songs: The Barrels of War/The Unborn
Love………………………………………………………Charlie
Big Fish, Little Fish…………………Ol’ Cap’n, Charlie
I Got Love………………………………………….Lutiebelle
Great White Father…………………….Cotton Pickers
Skinnin’ a Cat……………………………..Gitlow, Charlie
Down Home…………………………………..Purlie, Missy
Act Two
First Thing Monday Mornin’……….Cotton Pickers
He Can Do It……………………………Missy, Lutiebelle
The Harder They Fall (Reprise)………………Gitlow,
Missy,
Lutiebelle
The World Is Comin’ to a Start……………….Charlie,
Company
Walk Him Up the Stairs (Reprise)………..Company
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