Purlie Victorious
Cort Theatre
Previews Began: - | Opening Night: September 28, 1961 | Closing Night: November 18, 1961
Longacre Theatre
Previews Began: -
Opening Night: November 20, 1961
Closing Night: May 13, 1962
Playwright: Ossie Davis
Follows a travelling preacher, Purlie, who returns to his Georgia hometown to save the local church and the cotton pickers working on Ol’ Cap’n Cotchiepee’s plantation
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Ossie Davis Purlie Victorious Judson
Ruby Dee Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins
Sorrell Booke Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee
Godfrey M. Cambridge Gitlow Judson
Alan Alda Charley Cotchipee
Roger C. Carmel The Deputy
Ci Herzog The Sheriff
Helen Martin Missy Judson
Beah Richards Idella Landy
Understudies: Gail Fisher (Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins), Gloria Foster (Missy Judson, Idella Landy), Michael Lord (Charley Cotchipee, The Deputy), John Sillings (The Sheriff), Mel Stewart (Purlie Victorious Judson, Gitlow Judson), Mervyn Williams (Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee)
