LAURENCE RIVERS PRESENTS "THE GREEN PASTURES," A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY. Souvenir Program.; Production Designed by Robert Edmond Jones. Music under the direction of Hall Johnson. Play Staged by the Author. Pulitzer Prize Play, 1930. Chicago Premier Monday evening, Sept. 7, 1931

Connelly, Marc

Published by Al Greenstone, NY, 1931

About this Item

16pp; text illus from photographs of the play on stage, actors, music director, etc. Bound in pictorial wrappers showing a scene from the play. 11.75" x 8.75" Connelly's play, featuring an all-Black cast, and based on Roark Bradford's "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun'," won the Pulitzer Prize for 1930. "Green Pastures" comprises episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African-American girl in the Depression-era South. The play is uplifted by African-American spirituals, arranged by Hall Johnson and performed by The Hall Johnson Choir.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LAURENCE RIVERS PRESENTS "THE GREEN PASTURES," A FABLE BY MARC CONNELLY. Souvenir Program.; Production Designed by Robert Edmond Jones. Music under the direction of Hall Johnson. Play Staged by the Author. Pulitzer Prize Play, 1930. Chicago Premier Monday evening, Sept. 7, 1931
• Publisher: Al Greenstone, NY
• Publication Date: 1931
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First edition thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Stage & Cinema