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	Stage & Theatre Reviews by Al Bresloff
		The original "Purlie" opened on Broadway back in 1970 and the purpose of this play was to "point the mocking finger at racial segregation and laugh it out of existence" according to Mr.
		Purlie Victorious Judson (the very capable Jacques C. Smith) who has tried many careers and has received the call to be a preacher.
		The trick is for Purlie to get that money by hook or crook, so he brings in a ringer to pretend to be his cousin, but his choice, Miss Lulubelle Gussie Mae Jenkins (the hysterical and stylishly funny Paulette Ivory) who is not playing with a full deck.
	www.salsachicago.com /ALPurlie.htm (719 words)

	Purlie - Guide to Musical Theatre
		The man on the pulpit is Purlie Victorious, a new kind of preacher man, who sings the praises of life rather than the uncertainties of life in the hereafter.
		Soon after she comes running in decrying the advances of the dirty old man. Purlie is outraged and charges up the hill to defend her honour.
		So here is Purlie dedicating Big Bethel with the funeral of the man who made it both necessary and possible for such a festive occasion.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_p/purlie.htm (470 words)

	Stage Review: New Horizon's 'Purlie Victorious' pushes stereotypes to comic effect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Our hero, Purlie Victorious (a name which both dignifies and pokes fun), is determined to trick Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee, a plantation owner with a big house on the hill for whom the Civil War and 20th century never really happened, into turning over $500 which was bequeathed to Purlie's family.
		Purlie gets even more help from the white sheriff and his deputy, who are so hapless they make tortoises look swift.
		Purlie is flawed enough that we're glad his cute girlfriend is going to take him in hand.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06047/655958.stm (739 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Purlie's Paltry Persuasion
		Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message of racial dignity and hope account for its remarkable drawing power.
		Purlie wants the money to found his church, but when he falls in love with Lutiebelle he runs into a snag.
		As these two and others draw Purlie into more and more awkward predicaments, one realizes LaVergne's repertoire of emotions is limited to a few gestures--a frown and shake of the head for disappointment, and a recurrent toss of the shoulders to suggest the determined faith that is ostensibly Purlie's defining characteristic.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=105303 (950 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		Purlie arrives at the shack of his aunt Missy (Hilda Haynes) and uncle Gitlow (Godfrey Cambridge) with sweet young country girl Lutiebelle (Ruby Dee) in tow.
		Purlie has not only fallen for Lutiebelle, a former kitchen servant he's trying to get to stand up for herself, but he's also noticed her resemblance to a cousin who also long ago left the plantation.
		When the boss suddenly gets disagreeable, Purlie distracts him by presenting him with an official-looking certificate proclaiming him "Great White Father of the Year." Boss man is flattered but, alas, the inheritance ruse doesn't work when Lutiebelle signs her real name on the receipt Cotchipee insists she sign.
	www.tcm.com /movienews/index/?cid=115866 (1137 words)

	' Encores! Purlie,' Review on Broadway.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Key to Purlie's scheme to acquire the money is an impersonation of Purlie's deceased relative by Lutiebelle, the young woman in love with the dynamic hero.
		Purlie always felt to this observer like something of a "chop-and-drop" musical, an abridgement of Purlie Victorious to make room for songs that don't always add much to the original play.
		Purlie was written as a rambunctious cartoon, and Epps had his cast playing everything far too realistically, seriously, and tastefully.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=509552 (922 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Purlie Victorious
		Released briefly in 1963 as Gone Are the Days, Purlie Victorious was based on the successful stage play of the same name by Ossie Davis that had debuted two years earlier.
		Davis stars as Purlie Victorious Judson, a fast-talking reverend who returns to the backwoods of Cotchipee County in rural Georgia, and the cotton plantation he fled twenty years earlier.
		Things go wrong, and Purlie finds himself on the run once again, but when Ol' Cap'n makes in appropriate overtires toward Lutiebelle, the preacher goes into a murderous rage, and sets out to confront the man that has oppressed him and his family for decades.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=21925 (828 words)

	Inside Publications - Goodman's 'Purlie' revival sparkles; INSIDE Newspaper Serving Chicago's North Side neighborhoods ...
		The Goodman Theater opened its fall season with a rousing revival of the 1970 musical "Purlie." Following on the heels of the disaster in New Orleans, the musical, which might have seemed like a dated relic of the early civil rights era, suddenly has taken on a contemporary hue.
		The plot fails and the rest of the story involves Purlie's victory over the adversities of a region where race divides two unique but hardly equal societies.
		Purlie is an old fashioned musical where the songs advance the story and are integrated into the plot.
	www.insideonline.com /site/epage/28804_162.htm (438 words)

	Oak Park Newspaper theater reviews
		Purlie is produced in association with Pasadena Playhouse.
		Purlie centers around Purlie Victorious, who has pursued many careers in his short life, and now received the call to be a preacher.
		Purlie, with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell and book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Peter Udell, is directed by the acclaimed Sheldon Epps.
	www.oakparkjournal.com /TheaterReviews/Goodman-2005-Purlie.html (1744 words)

	MOSAEC Film & Video-Purlie
		Purlie's plan is to pass Lutiebelle off as his cousin in order to get Ol' Cap' to sign over the deed to a battered old barn that Purlie wishes to turn into a church.
		Purlie's initial plan is foiled, but he eventually gets the property.
		Watching Purlie, it's clear that Ossie Davis was offering American audiences something they may not have been ready for in the early sixties.
	www.mosaec.com /mosaec/film/film_purlie.htm (513 words)

	Purlie: review on TheaterMania.com
		The show is set in an era in which the Civil Rights movement still was gathering force, most Jim Crow laws remained firmly in place, and plantation employees were legally free but caught in a web of economic exploitation that kept them perpetually in debt to the plantation owners.
		Davis, who also played the title role in Purlie Victorious, was skillful enough to wrap his political message in raucous comedy, much of it derived from the tried-and-true comic methods of burlesque and vaudeville.
		Purlie and his kin get their church back but not as a result of any actions of their own, although they've spent the show trying.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6797 (789 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - Los Angeles - "Purlie" - 7/8/05
		Although Purlie deals with the rather serious topic of discrimination in the American South in the 1960s, it is far from a serious musical.
		Smith doesn’t give Purlie a particularly electric charisma; his Purlie doesn’t catch your attention with the strength of his personal charm, but rather with the passion of his inspirational words.
		Purlie sometimes leads up to a song with a lengthy introduction, and his belief in his cause combines with the orchestra striking up to generate real excitement.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/la/la185.html (881 words)

	English Department: Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However, Ossie Davis, the writer, actor, and director of Purlie Victorious was a legend of his own time.
		According to Davis, Purlie Victorious is a satire about adventures of African-American "manhood" in a world created for European Americans only.
		Davis was born on December 18, 1917, in Cogdell, Georgia.
	www.coas.howard.edu /english/Legends_Ossiedavis.htm (376 words)

	Purlie
		Underwood cut a dashing figure and was a pretty decent Purlie (though, I'd be lying if I didn't say I wished Norm Lewis would have taken off the week from Dessa Rose to do the role).
		Considering the assimilation of fl culture in the mainstream, neither Purlie's cry for revolution nor the intentionally stereotyped characters carry much of a political charge 35 years later.
		Though her delivery of the song PURLIE was charming, I GOT LOVE lacked the electrifying excitement Moore brought to the song.
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=844560 (1371 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Purlie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Where reality erupts most powerfully is in the gutsy portrayal by Loretta Devine ("Boston Public""Boston Public") as Aunt Missy Judson, reluctantly aiding Purlie's plan to pass off a stranger, Lutiebelle (Paulette Ivory), as his aunt's deceased daughter so he can claim a withheld $500 inheritance from Cap'n Cotchipee.
		Despite this, Purlie falls in love with her and, later, when the lewd Cap'n offends her with sexual advances, Purlie storms off to strike down his enemy.
		These soulfully directed moments clearly show "Purlie" can speak to new generations if some of the blatant, broadly dated dialogue and scenes are reconceived or omitted.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VE1117927579&nid=2580 (889 words)

	Purlie Victorius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Purlie Victorious (1963) is the story of an idealistic fl preacher (Davis) who returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down Ol’ Cap’n Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee, (Sorrell Booke, The Dukes of Hazzard), the ruthless plantation owner he once served.
		Purlie wastes no time in persuading the hesitant girl to convince Cotchipee that she is the long-lost relative entitled to the money.
		Although played for laughs, Purlie Victorious is a reflection of the powerful themes of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
	www.mpimedia.com /news/purlie_print.htm (496 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Purlie, Bridewell Theatre, preview
		Eventually, of course, Purlie emerges victorious with both the church and his girlfriend, Lulubelle.
		Purlie is being performed by the Okai Collier Company, under the direction of Omar F Okai, with choreography by Mykal Rand, design by Kate Bannister and Karl Swinyard.
		Purlie, a musical by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Peter Udell (based on Purlie Victorious, a play by Ossie Davis); Music, Garry Geld; Lyrics, Peter Udell.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_purlie_bridewell_prev.html (445 words)

	Cushcity.com - Purlie Victorious DVD
		Based on the popular Broadway play, Purlie Victorious is the story of a fl preacher (award-winning stage and screen actor, Ossie Davis), who returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down Ol' Cap'n Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke, The Dukes of Hazzard), the ruthless plantation owner that he once served.
		Accompanying Purlie is Miss Lutiebelle Jenkins (Ruby Dee), a pretty young girl who has captured his heart.
		Purlie persuades her to convince Cotchipee that she is the long-lost relative entitled to the family inheritance.
	www.cushcity.com /books/0303067736.htm (172 words)

	PURLIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This doesn’t mean that Pasadena Playhouse’s current revival of Purlie isn’t handsomely produced and exceptionally performed and designed, but just that this one doesn’t hold up in time as well as it should.
		I had such high hopes for this Purlie, especially with Epps and this notable team of designers to create it, but truly, these folks did all they could.
		If I’d brought my son to see this production when he was still a kid pondering the mix of his own racial identity, I think I would have had a lotta ‘slpainin’ to do when we got home.
	www.reviewplays.com /purlie.htm (346 words)

	Purlie News
		Purlie News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The new Goodman Theatre staging of Purlie, the musical with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell and book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose and Peter Udell, and directed by Sheldon Epps, has extended its run.
		She was 22 when she appeared in "Hair," singing "White Boys" as part of a Supremes-like trio, then taking over as Sheila, a role that had been played by blondes.
	www.topix.net /movies/purlie (785 words)

	Purlie: review on TheaterMania.com
		In a nutshell, Purlie concerns an itinerant preacher who returns home to Georgia with a scheme to get his hands on the $500 that is due him from Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee, the dyed-in-the-wool Confederate who owns the local cotton plantation and thinks he also owns the fls who work on it.
		Purlie Victorious Judson, as the preacher is called, is all flash and little or no substance -- even though he's supposedly the hero of the story.
		As for the cast, Anika Noni Rose is winningly winsome as Lutiebelle, and while some theatergoers may be disappointed that she sings most of her songs' high notes in a soprano mix rather than belting them to the rafters as Melba Moore did in the original production, others will prefer this approach.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5859 (920 words)

	XULA : Music PURLIE 4/15-17
		The musical is based on the stage play "Purlie Victorious" written by the late Ossie Davis.
		Purlie, who has recently returned to the Cotchipee cotton plantation after 20 years of wandering, has a scheme to outwit old Cap'n Cotchipee into giving him money that rightfully belonged to Purlie's mother; money that would save the community church, Big Bethel.
		The cast of PURLIE sings "The World is Coming to a Start," from the Xavier University production of PURLIE.
	www.xula.edu /music/purlie (609 words)

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		With ice cold blue-blood in his veins and a bullwhip in his hand, he has oppressed the townsfolk for as long as anyone can remember; and now he is threatening to destroy Big Bethel, the church that is the heart of the community.
		Enter Purlie Victorious Judson – a former town resident who returns from his far-flung travels as a preacher with a plan to save the church, the town and its people.
		With his wit, courage, and charm, Purlie is indeed victorious – and with its buoyant mix of comedy, romance and wisdom, and its soul-soaring, foot-stomping score, PURLIE inevitably sends audiences out of the theater singing, smiling and believing in a better tomorrow.
	www.gorgeousentertainment.com /purlie.htm (256 words)

	Amazon.com: Purlie Victorious: DVD: Purlie Victorious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Starring Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Alan Alda, Purlie Victorious, originally a popular Broadway production, is the intriguing story of a fl preacher's return to his home in rural Georgia to claim a rightful inheritance and diminish the powers of his once served 'boss' Ol' Cap'n Stonewall Jackson Cotchipee.
		As an activist film in the midst of the civil rights movement in the 1960's, Purlie Victorious entertains viewers with a great plot as Purlie's persuasion convinces his young girl-friend to claim herself a long-lost relative of Cotchipee's family.
		Purlie Victorious stars screenplay author Ossie Davis as a preacher who comes back home to scheme five hundred dollars away from ol' Massa Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke of Dukes Of Hazard) so he can start his own church.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000BM7YHE?v=glance (1154 words)

	Encores! - Purlie at New York City Center - Mainstage
		Purlie won both Tony and Grammy Awards when it debuted on Broadway in 1970.
		Set in the Jim Crow South, Purlie tells the story of an idealistic preacher named Purlie Victorious who decides to bring freedom to the townsfolk by inventing an elaborate, ingenious and hilarious scheme to reclaim the people's rights.
		Purlie includes such popular songs as "I Got Love", "Walk Him Up The Stairs" and "Down Home".
	www.citycenter.org /events/event_detail.cfm?event_code=EN205 (122 words)

	Purlie - Movie Info - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Synopsis: When preacher Purlie comes to town, he brings with him all kinds of trouble, from conspiracy to deceit, along with other identity and love absurdities.
		Purlie (1963): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
		Purlie - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/purlie/1043609/main (132 words)

	Workshop Theatre - Purlie
		Jocelyn Walters-Brannon as Lutiebelle and Walter Graham as Purlie.
		But Purlie wants his people's freedom and wants his own church in which to preach freely, and he sets out to get it all.
		After a prologue, we are introduced to Purlie Victorious Judson who has returned home to the cotton plantation of Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee, deep in south Georgia.
	www.workshoptheatre.com /05season_purlie.html (640 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Purlie - 4/2/05
		The song, titled "Walk Him Up the Stairs," is so forced in its high-energy raving that it loses what should be its natural ability to start the show on an elevated level; instead, it begins the show in the basement, from which it only eventually (and cautiously) emerges.
		Purlie is based on the 1961 play Purlie Victorious, which Ossie Davis wrote and starred in.
		Purlie's brother Gitlow (Doug E. Doug), now Cotchipee's fl deputy, and his wife Missy (Lillias White) are similarly underdeveloped, reduced to sketchy caricatures armed with rubber-tipped comic quips.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/04_02_05.html (882 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - Purlie Victorious
		Self-ordained preacher, Purlie (Davis), enlists the aid of Lutiebelle (Dee), his fiancee, to work against an autocratic plantation owner (Booke) as a representational freeing of his people from the opression of the Old South.
		While at the same time, he is trying to convince the owner that Lutiebelle has reason to receive a family inheritance.
		Purlie's own family (Cambridge, Haynes) and the plantation owner's son (Alda, in his film debut) complicate matters further.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=6067-1-PST (114 words)

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