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Brown Buddies was a musical comedy staged with dancer Bill Bojangles and singer "Dancing in 'Brown Buddies'"
''The Afro-American'', 27 September 1930.''Brown Buddies'' playbill
Playbill Vault. Dubbed by the press "a musical comedy in sepia", the core of the music was composed by Millard Thomas. Songs by
Brown Buddies was a musical comedy staged with dancer Bill Bojangles and singer Adelaide Hall
Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her long career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death and she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Hal ...
starring. It opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre
The Liberty Theatre is a former Broadway theater at 234 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1904, the theater was designed by Herts & Tallant and built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership ...
where it ran for four months before commencing a road tour in the United States.''The Afro-American'', 27 September 1930.''Brown Buddies'' playbill
Playbill Vault. Dubbed by the press "a musical comedy in sepia", the core of the music was composed by Millard Thomas. Songs by
Shelton Brooks
Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886September 6, 1975) was a Canadian-born African American composer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century.
...
, Ned Reed, Porter Grainger
Porter Grainger ( Granger; October 22, 1891 − October 30, 1948) was an American pianist, songwriter, playwright, and music publisher.
Biography
When Grainger was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Granger family name did not include an "i". A ...
, J. C. Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson
John Rosamond Johnson (August 11, 1873 – November 11, 1954; usually referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson) was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he had much of his career in New York C ...
, George A. Little, Arthur Sizemore and Edward G. Nelson also featured. After an out-of-town try-out, the musical opened on October 7, 1930, at the Liberty Theatre, New York, where it ran a fairly solid run of 111 performances until January 10, 1931.
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