CD Details
- Released: September 11, 1990
- Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Tracks:
- 1.Walk Him up the Stairs
- 2.New Fangled Preacher Man
- 3.Skinnin' a Cat
- 4.Purlie
- 5.The Harder They Fall
- 6.The Barrels of War: Unborn Love
- 7.Big Fish Little Fish
- 8.God's Alive
- 9.I Got Love
- 10.Great White Father
- 11.Down Home
- 12.First Thing Monday Mornin'
- 13.He Can Do It
- 14.The World Is Comin' to a Start
- 15.Walk Him up the Stairs (Epilogue)
Product Description:
Principal cast includes: Melba Moore, Cleavon Little, Sherman Hemsley.
Personnel: Cleavon Little, John Heffernan, Alyce Webb, Barbara Christopher, Mildred Pratcher, H?l?ne Martin, Ray Pollard , Novella Nelson, C.David Colson, Carolyn Byrd, Mildred Lane, Tony Middleton , Linda Hopkins, Melba Moore, Milt Grayson, Sherman Hemsley (vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Bill Rosenfield.
Liner Note Author: Bill Rosenfield.
Recording information: Broadway Theatre, NY (03/1970).
Photographers: Friedman-Abeles ; Peter Udell.
Arranger: Luther Henderson.
This musical comedy adaptation of Ossie Davis's play about a Black preacher who returns to his Southern hometown has a boisterous gospel score written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell and also boasts a cast including Cleavon Little, Melba Moore, Linda Hopkins, and Sherman Hemsley. ~ William Ruhlmann
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