Lena Horne

On stage 4 productions, 42 years

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Ricardo Montalban (Koli), Augustine Rios (Quico), Lena Horne (Savannah), Adelaide Hall (Grandma Obeah), Josephine Premice (Ginger), Roy Thompson (Snodgrass), Hugh Dilworth (Hucklebuck), Ethel Ayler (Island Woman), Adelaide Boatner (Island Woman), Erik Rhodes (The Governor), Ossie Davis (Cicero), James E. Wall (Lancaster), Tony Mart…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Savannah” (Ricardo Montalban, Fishermen); “Savannah’s Wedding Day” (Adelaide Hall, Islanders); “Pretty to Walk With” (Lena Horne); “Push the Button” (Lena Horne); “Incompatibility” (Ricardo Montalban, Augustine Rios, Island Men); “Little Biscuit” (Ossie Davis, Josephine Premice); “Cocoanut Sweet” (Adelaide Hall, Lena Horne); “Pi…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Leave the Atom Alone” (Josephine Premice, Islanders); “Cocoanut Sweet” (reprise) (Lena Horne); “For Every Fish” (Adelaide Hall, Fishermen); “I Don’t Think I’ll End It All Today” (Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban, Islanders); “Napoleon” (Lena Horne); “Ain’t It the Truth” (reprise); “Savannah” (reprise) (Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Jamaica started life as Pigeon Island and was to have starred Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte. When the musical was finally produced, Ricardo Montalban was Horne’s leading man, and the two of them dominated the score (there wasn’t much plot to dominate). Of the musical’s twenty-one songs (including reprises and one dance number), Horne and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• John McClain in the New York Journal-American said the plot itself was “a large hunk of nothing,” and while Jamaica was “by no means in the same ocean as South Pacific ” it was nonetheless a “speedy and sumptuous” vehicle for the “many-splendored” Lena Horne; Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times noted his readers might not “be passionate…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Richard Watts in the New York Post took a “fairly dim view” of the book, but summed it up best by saying the musical was Lena Horne’s “triumph . . . she creates an atmosphere of excitement that is inescapable.” Thanks to her, the musical had a long run and turned a profit.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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