Shuffle Along
- ISBN-10
- 1987200284
- ISBN-13
- 9781987200287
- Category
- African American theater
- Pages
- 639
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-30
- Publisher
- A-R Editions, Inc.
- Authors
- Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
Description
The Broadway musical Shuffle Alongwith book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, lyrics by Noble Sissle, and music by Eubie Blakepremiered on 23 May 1921 at the Cort Theatre on 63rd Street and became the first overwhelmingly successful African American musical on Broadway. Langston Hughes, who saw the production, said that Shuffle Along marked the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance. Both black and white audiences swarmed to the show, which prompted the integration of subsequent Broadway audiences. The dances were such a smash that choreographers for white Broadway shows hired Shuffle Along chorus girls to teach their chorus lines the new steps. Love Will Find a Way, the first successful unburlesqued love song in a black Broadway show, was so well-received that audiences demanded multiple encores. The shows influences went far beyond Broadway: Some of the periods most influential black musicians, including dancer Josephine Baker, vocalist Paul Robeson, composer Hall Johnson, and composer William Grant Still, all got their start in Shuffle Along. The editors have assembled the full score and libretto for this critical edition from the original performance materials. The critical report thoroughly explains all sources and editorial decisions. The accompanying scholarly essay examines the music, dances, and script of Shuffle Along and places this influential show in its social, racial, and historical context.
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- 2015-07-25
- 58 pages
- Paperback
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