The run closed January 7, 1973
- Opened
- December 27, 1972
- Closed
- January 7, 1973
- Performances
- 14
- Previews
- 2
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 416th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Purlie 1 more that season
| 1970 | Broadway Theatre Original · Philip Rose | 688 perf. |
Who was in it32 named
Patti Jo
Darlene Blackburn
Deborah Lynn Bridges
Laura Cooper
Raphael Gilbert
Demarest Grey
Linda Griffin
Every Hayes
Reggie Jackson
Barbara Joy
Ursuline Kairson
Alton Lathrop
Helen Martin
Robert Martin
Karen E Mcdonald
Lonnie Mcneil
Shirley Monroe
Douglas Norwick
Debbie Palmer
Andre Peck
Zelda Pulliam
Alfred Rage
Beverly G Robnett
Frances Salisbury
Vanessa Shaw
Art Wallace
David Weatherspoon
Joe Williams
Louise Stubbs
3 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Robert Guillaume Purlie Victorious Judson
Patti Jo Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins
Douglas Norwick Charley Cotchipee
Art Wallace Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee
Doug E. Doug Gitlow Judson
Laura Cooper Missy Judson
Clarice Taylor Idella Landy
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Louis Johnson
- Choreographer
- Louis Johnson
- Producer
- Philip Rose
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Purlie, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 1 recordings of Purlie document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.