Cleavon Little

On stage 6 productions, 17 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Said Purlie (Cleavon Little), who was literally preaching to the choir while presiding over the funeral, “He did us a service—dying … it would not be Christian for us not to pray for what we know is impossible: his redemption.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• MERLE DEBUSKEY: Ossie Davis had written the comedy Purlie Victorious nearly a decade before Purlie opened with Cleavon Little and Melba Moore. While Ossie was assistant stage manager for The World of Sholem Aleichem , we encouraged him to write a libretto based on his play. And so out of our little company, which developed from The World…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Cleavon Little, Melba Moore, John Heffernan, Sherman Hemsley, Novella Nelson, George Faisonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• With little ballyhoo, Purlie opened on Broadway to generally favorable notices and enthusiastic audiences, and became the sleeper hit of the season. The musical was adapted from the 1961 play Purlie Victorious, a folkish satire on racial stereotypes written by co-librettist Ossie Davis, and is concerned with the efforts of a self-styled n…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Black stars emerged Cleavon Little, Ben Vereen, and Gregory Hines among them while Pearl Bailey and Eartha Kitt continued traditions they had started in pre-theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• even something pretty close to Top-40 rhythm and blues). It has Cleavon Little playing the title role—playing it with such power and confidence that instead of being afraid of Melba Moore, who could have pulled the show out from under the feet of a lesser man, he wel-theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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