Production Info
Opening
July 11, 1927
Closing:
September 10, 1927
Length of Run:
77 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location Info
Location: New York, NY
Credits
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Ladies of the Ensemble
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Musical Numbers
The musical numbers list has been verified as correct.
Act One
- Black Cargo .... Takiana Four and African Girls
- Bugle Blues .... Ed Pugh
- Weary Feet .... Ethel Waters
- Tap Drill by Aunt Hagar's Children .... Ethel Waters and Girls
- Step a Second, A .... Mike Riely and Al Wilkins
- Chinese Revolution, The .... Henry Winifred and Billy Mills
- Original Black Bottom Dance, The .... Ethel Waters and Girls
- Judgement Day
- Eccentric Dance .... Baby and Bobby Goins
- Minstrel Congress, The
- Old-Fashioned Cakewalk, The .... Ethel Waters and Entire Company
- Dance of the Tambourines .... Africana Girls
- Little Minstrel and Spiritual Harmony, A .... Takiana Four
- Cakewalk Strut, The .... The Entire Company
Act Two
- Mississippi, The
- Time Ain't Very Long .... Africana Octette
- Smile .... Ethel Waters
- Specialty (i) .... Louis Douglas
- Romantic Interlude, A
- Clorinda .... Takiana Four, Baby and Bobby Goins and Company
- Argufyin' .... Billy Mills
- Harlem Transplanted to Paris
- Specialty (ii) .... African Jazzers
- Banana Maidens' Ã la Josephine Baker .... Margaret Beckett and Ten Little Bananas
- My Special Friend Is Back in Town
- Don't Mess Around with My Man
- Shake That Thing
- Take Your Black Bottom Out of Here
- I'm Comin' Virginia
- You Can't Do What My Last Man Did .... Ethel Waters
- Eccentric Dance (ii) .... Baby and Bobby Goins
- Minstrel Congress, The
- Old-Fashioned Cakewalk, The (Reprise) .... Ethel Waters and Company
- Dinah .... Ethel Waters
- Specialty (iii) .... Baby and Bobby Goins
- Africana Stomp, The .... Ethel Waters, Louis Douglas and Girls
- Grand Finale .... Entire Company
Additional Musical Numbers Lists
These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.
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Production Info
Opening
July 11, 1927
Closing:
September 10, 1927
Length of Run:
77 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location Info
Location: New York, NY
Venues
Main Run
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Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (New York, NY)
July 11, 1927 - August 16, 1927 -
National Theatre (New York, NY)
August 20, 1927 - September 10, 1927
