By Anne Bradley
and Ernio Hernandez
23 May 2012
1904 The Southerners, with a score by black composer Will
Marion Cook, is the first time an entire black chorus is used in a show
with a white cast. Lead Eddie Leonard appears in blackface in this
musical about the antebellum South. The New York Times is more impressed
by the fact the white members of the cast "mingled" with the black
performers and that only some audience members trembled in their seats
during the curtain call, than the production itself.
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