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Vinette Carroll Your Arms Too Short to Box With God Signed vtg Broadway Program

$ 36.43

Availability: 75 in stock
  • Condition: African American musical signed program from either 1970's or early 1980.
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    Description

    Vinnette Carroll's
    Your Arms Too Short to Box With God
    A Soaring Celebration In Song
    Play Program
    16 page program is filled throughout with photos and information.  Good condition.  Front cover shows two 1/2" tears along bottom edge, along with some light staining.  Light crease lines to cover and pages. Not dated...possibly from the late 1980s (due to Jennifer Holliday is in the program).  A few pages have light foxing spots.
    There are 7 signatures on cover and 1 inside:
    Ray Stephens
    Julius Richard Brown
    Ralph Farrington
    Leslie Hardesty Sisson
    Marilynn Winbush
    2 are not recognizable
    Note:  Your Arms Too Short to Box with God: A Soaring Celebration in Song and Dance
    is  Broadway musical based on the Biblical Book of Matthew, with music and lyrics by Alex Bradford and a book by Vinnette Carroll who also directed. Micki Grant was credited for "additional music and lyrics."
    It opened December 22, 1976, at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre in New York City. It moved to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on November 16, 1977, and closed January 1, 1978, after 429 performances.
    It was later revived in 1980 & 1982.  Jennifer Yvette Holliday is featured in this program.  It states she made her professional debut last year...so, This is program is most likely from 1980.
    Key words:  African American
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