- Opening date
- February 19, 1970
- Comments
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Musical that focuses on the dynamic, traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation.
First preview performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York, opening on March 15, 1970.