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Run, Little Chillun

Lyric Theatre , (3/01/1933 - 6/17/1933)

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Opening Date:	Mar 01, 1933
Closing Date:	Jun 17, 1933	Total Performances:	126

Category: Play, Drama, Play with music, Original, Broadway

Description: A play in four scenes

Setting: The Parsonage in a small Southern town; The Meeting Place of the New Day Pilgrims; Toomer's Bottom; Hope Baptist Church.

Opening Night Credits
Songs

Production Staff
Produced by Robert Rockmore
Written by Hall Johnson; Incidental music composed and arranged by Hall Johnson
Directed by Frank Merlin; Dances arranged by Doris Humphrey
Scenic Design by Cleon Throckmorton; Costume Design by Helene Pons
Choral Director: Hall Johnson

Cast

A. Adderly	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
E. Adderly	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Katherine Ahnor Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
Lavetta Albright Alto	Pilgrim Choir
R. Alday	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
G. Allen	Pilgrim Orchestra
Irma Allen Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
I Baker	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Olive Ball	The Rev. Sister Luella Strong
Ernest Baskette Bass	Pilgrim Choir
Service Bell Baritone	Pilgrim Choir
Harry Bolden	The Rev. Jones Pastor of the Hope Baptist Church
Dorothy Boxwill	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
James Thomas Boxwill	Brother Lu-Te Chief Singer of the New Day Pilgrims
R. Branch	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
R. Brathwaite	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Edward Broadnax	Brother George W. Jenkins
Bass	Pilgrim Choir
Ernest Brown Bass	Pilgrim Choir
R. Brown	Pilgrim Orchestra
Olga Burgoyne	Mother Kanda Daughter of Tongola
Alston Burleigh	Jim Rev. Jones' Son
E. Caesar	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Marietta Canty	Bessiola Hicks
Alto	Pilgrim Choir
Jack Carr	Brother Moses Young Priest
Maggie Carter	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
George Clark Baritone	Pilgrim Choir
Edna Commodore	Children
Jean Cutler Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
E. Davis	Novitiate
Mayme Davis	Novitiate
L. DePaure	Pilgrim Orchestra
Lucille Dickson Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
Mabel Diggs	Mame of Toomer's Bottom
Blanche Eckles Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
Irene Ellington	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Eva Evelyn	Novitiate
A. Ferguson	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Charlie Frye Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
C. Gibson	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Amy Goodwin Alto	Pilgrim Choir
J. Gordon	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
O. Gordon	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Alice Grant	Novitiate
Bessie Guy	Belle of Toomer's Bottom
Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
Esther Hall	Organist
	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Eneida Hamlett	Pilgrim
C. Harris	Pilgrim Orchestra
Carolyn Hughes	Sister Susie May Hunt
Lulu Hunt	Sister Lulu Jane Hunt
A. Izanaga	Pilgrim Orchestra
Annie Jennings	Novitiate
Lulu King	Sue Scott of Toomer's Bottom
Rosalie King	Sister Mahalie Ockletree
Alto	Pilgrim Choir
Perrin Knight Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
Milton Lacey	Brother Jeremiah Johnson
Baritone	Pilgrim Choir
Larri Laurier	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
C. Lewis	Pilgrim Orchestra
Carrington Lewis Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
Alice Magee	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Assotta Marshall	Pilgrim
Milton Martin	Brother Jo-Ba Herald of Joy
Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
A. McCullough	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Effie McDowell Soprano	Pilgrim Choir
Jack Meredith	Novitiate
T. Moody	Pilgrim Orchestra
J. Nealy	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Bruce Nugent	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Dorothy Perry Alto	Pilgrim Choir
W. Polhamus	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Ray Polite	Pilgrim
O. Portier	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Bertha Powell	Sister Flossie Lou Little
Walter Price	Brother Esau Redd Chairman of Deacon Board of Hope, Baptist Church
Ethel Purnello	Sister Mata Priestess
Alma Reynolds	Pilgrim
Odelle Ricks	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Pauline Rivers	Sister Judy Ann Hicks
M. Sands	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Cecil Scott	Mag Sulamai's Mother
Emma Sealy	Novitiate
Ernest Shaw Baritone	Pilgrim Choir
Mattie Shaw	Sister Mattie Fullilove
Gus Simons	Brother Goliath Simpson
Paul Smellie	Pilgrim
Harold Sneed	Elder Tongola Prophet of the New Day Pilgrims
L. Stirrup	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
A. Stokes	Pilgrim Orchestra
Bennie Tattnall	Children
Andrew Taylor	The Reverend Ebeneezer Allen Local Preacher
Nell Taylor	Children
	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Edna Thomas	Ella
Arthur Walker Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
Fredi Washington	Sulamai
Jimmie Waters	Jeems Jackson
Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
Rosina Weston	Pilgrim
George White Tenor	Pilgrim Choir
H.J. Williams	Novitiate
Waldine Williams	Reba Daughter of Kanda
E. Wilson	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Henri Wood	Children
Clarence Yates	Tansadi Tongole Tongola's Dancers
Ray Yeates	Brother Bartholomew Little

music by Hall Johnson

ACT 1	Sung By
Church in the Dale	The Choir
Bye and Bye
Song of the Hill	Charlie
Processional/Credo/Moon-Music/Tangola Dance Music	Sister Mata (Priestess) and Soloist
ACT 2	Sung By
I Can't Stay Here by Myself	Sister Flossie Lou Little
Song of the Hill	Charlie
Steal Away/Amazing Grace/Oh, Jesus, Come Dis-A-Way	The Choir
Run Little Chillun
So Glad/Return, Oh Holy Dove/Lord, Oh Have Mercy on Me	The Choir