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Loften Mitchell

LOFTEN MITCHELL

  (1919 - 2001)
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Loften Mitchell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ballad For Bimshire         Ballad of a Blackbird         Ballad Of the Winter Soldiers         Bancroft Dynasty, The         Blood In the Night         Bubbling Brown Sugar         Cartoons For A Lunch Hour         Cellar, The         Final Solution To the Black Problem In the United States, The; Or, The Fall Of the American Empire         Gypsy Girl, A         Land Beyond the River, A         Miss Waters, To You         Phonograph, The         Shattered Dreams         Sojourn To the South Of the Wall         Star Of the Morning: Scenes In the Life Of Bert Williams         Tell Pharaoh         Walls Came Tumbling Down, The
Ballad For Bimshire

Ballad For Bimshire
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Notes:
Music by Irving Burgie; lyrics by Irving Burgie; book by Irving Burgie; book by Loften Mitchell

1st Produced:
Mayfair Theater, New York     1963

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Music:
Original cast recording: London (AMS-78002) 1963

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Genre:
Musical

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Ballad of a Blackbird

Synopsis:
the story of the singer Florence Mills. In 1926 she was in the out of town previews of the show "Blackbird" but died before it opened on Broadway.

Notes:
Lyrics by W F Lucas; book by Loften Mitchell

1st Produced:
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Ballad Of the Winter Soldiers

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Notes:
written with John Oliver Killens

1st Produced:
New York     1964

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Bancroft Dynasty, The

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1st Produced:
New York     1948

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Blood In the Night

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1st Produced:
New York     1946

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Bubbling Brown Sugar

Bubbling Brown Sugar
New York 1970. Irene Page is searching for her old partner John Sage they had had a musical act. She meets a group of people and suddenly they are all in a 1920s speakeasy. There they discover the younger Irene and the younger John

Notes:
by Loften Mitchell, concept by Rosetta LeNoire, music by Danny Holgate, Emme Kemp And Lilian Lopez

1st Produced:
Anta Theatre New York     02 Mar 1976

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1st Published:
Broadway Play Publishing, New York, 1985   

Music:
Original cast recording: Amherst (93310) 1976

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Cartoons For A Lunch Hour

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Rudy Stevenson; lyrics by Loften Mitchell; book by Loften Mitchell

1st Produced:
Perry Street Theater, New York     1978

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Cellar, The

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1st Produced:
New York     1952

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Final Solution To the Black Problem In the United States, The; Or, The Fall Of the American Empire

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1st Produced:
New York     1970

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Gypsy Girl, A

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1st Produced:
Pine Bluff, Arkansas     1982

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Land Beyond the River, A

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1st Produced:
New York     1957

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1st Published:
Pioneer Drama Service, Cody, Wyoming, 1963   

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Miss Waters, To You

Synopsis:
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Notes:
concept by Rosetta LeNoire

1st Produced:
New York     1983

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Phonograph, The

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1st Produced:
New York     1961

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Shattered Dreams

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1st Produced:
New York     1938

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Sojourn To the South Of the Wall

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1st Produced:
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Star Of the Morning: Scenes In the Life Of Bert Williams

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1st Produced:
Cleveland     1965

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1st Published:
in "Black Drama Anthology", New American Library, New York, 1971   

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Tell Pharaoh

Synopsis:
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Notes:
televised 1963

1st Produced:
New York     1967

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1st Published:
in "the Black Teacher and the Dramatic Arts", Negro Universities Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1970   

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Walls Came Tumbling Down, The

Synopsis:
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music by Willard Roosevelt

1st Produced:
New York     1976

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