SHUFFLE ALONG - 1921 First Broadway Musical to portray a serious African-American love story, rather than comedic. It was the most successful major production written and performed entirely by Black Americans. The music & lyrics by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles and a historically jaw-dropping group of hoofing chorus girls produced a hit score that kept the show running much longer than any other Broadway shows of the era. The show popularized a new “street dance” called “the Charleston” and launched the careers of Josephine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, Fredi Washington and Paul Robeson, It was revived in 33 & 55 and inspired last year’s critical hit “Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” by George C. Wolfe. On a personal note, I began researching this show 20 years ago as we were writing our first musical, “A Song of Greenwood” based on the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. “Shuffle Along” opened less than a month after the Tulsa tragedy. @BroadwayBlack @ShuffleAlongBroadway @LoJoWerkz #LoJoWerkz #LoJoWerkzDailyDope #DAILYDOPE #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryFirsts #TheLastShallbeFirstandtheFirstsShallbeLast #ShuffleAlong #Broadway #HoofersonBroadway #EubieBlake #NobleSissle #ImJustWildAboutHarry #LoveWillFindaWay #JosephineBaker #AdelaideHall #FlorenceMills #FrediWashington #PaulRobeson #GeorgeCWolfe #SavionGlover #WallsBrokenDown #BarriersShattered #GreatFirsts #WhoGotNext
