THEA 100 Lecture 30: THEA100 Lecture 30 Notes 4-7-2017

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Complex beginnings: slave ships, plantations, minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, early musicals, club scene. Sambo characters: jim crow character in jump jim crow a popular tune from the 1830s, sambo character in 1899 children"s book the story of little black sambo. Renaissance: the harlem renaissance roughly 1918-1929, a movement dedicated to exploring the nature of african american life, generated numerous theatre companies. Duke ellington, fats waller, jelly roll morton. Josephine baker, the nicholas brothers, bill bojangles robinson. Paul robeson 1898-1976: lawyer, rhodes scholar, artist, and activist, 1927 showboat, 1930 othello in london, 1959 othello in nyc (longest run as othello) Lenoire, and many others: anna lucasta by philip yordan (a white polish american playwright) and abram hill would open on. Broadway in 1944: a young woman who has been a prostitute tries to get her working-class coal-mining family to forgive her.

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