- Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- At Home With Ethel Waters (1953). Special/musical revue. Music for "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson. Lyrics for "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson. Music for "Sleepy Time Down South" by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René. Lyrics for "Sleepy Time Down South" by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René. Music for "Throw Dirt" by Shelton Brooks. Lyrics for "Throw Dirt" by Shelton Brooks. Music for "Am I Blue" and "Dinah" by Harry Akst. Lyrics for "Am I Blue" by Grant Clarke. Music for "Half of Me" by Peter De Rose and Sam M. Lewis. Lyrics for "Half of Me" by Peter De Rose. Lyrics for "Half of Me" and "Dinah" by Sam M. Lewis. Music for "Washtub Rubstudy," "Dance Hall Hostess" and "Somethin' Told Me..." by Alberta Nichols. Lyrics for "Washtub Rubstudy," "Dance Hall Hostess" and "Somethin' Told Me..." by Mann Holiner. Music for "Bread and Gravy" by Hoagy Carmichael. Music for "Love For Sale" by Cole Porter. Lyrics for "Dinah" by Joe Young. Music for "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" by Ethel Waters and Sidney Easton. Lyrics for "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" by Ethel Waters and Sidney Easton. Music for "My Man" by Maurice Yvain. French Lyrics for "My Man" by Albert Willemetz and Jacques Charles. English Lyrics for "My Man" by Channing Pollock. Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy. Lyrics for "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy. Music for "Suppertime" by Irving Berlin. Lyrics for "Suppertime" by Irving Berlin. Music for "Takin' a Chance on Love" and "Cabin in the Sky" by Vernon Duke. Lyrics for "Takin' a Chance on Love" and "Cabin in the Sky" by John La Touche. Lyrics for "Takin' a Chance on Love" by Ted Fetter. Music for "Happiness is Jes' a Thing Called Joe" and "Stormy Weather" by Harold Arlen. Lyrics for "Happiness is Jes' a Thing Called Joe" by E.Y. Harburg. Music for "Lady Be Good' by George Gershwin'. Lyrics for "Lady Be Good" by Ira Gershwin. Lyrics for "Stormy Weather" by Ted Koehler. Directed by Richard Barr. 48th Street Theatre: 22 Sep 1953- 10 Oct 1953 (23 performances). Cast: Ethel Waters. Produced by Richard Barr and Charles Bowden.
- Run, Little Chillun (1943). Drama (revival). Music by Hall Johnson. Written by Hall Johnson. Musical Director: Hall Johnson. Production Supervised by Lew Cooper. Directed by Clarence Muse. Hudson Theatre: 11 Aug 1943- 26 Aug 1943 (16 performances). Cast: John Alele (as "Chorus"), Roger Alford (as "Brother Absalom Brown/Novitiate"), Myrtle Anderson (as "Mame, of Toomer's Bottom"), Viola Anderson (as "Belle, of Toomer's Bottom"), Olive Ball (as "The Rev. Sister Luella Strong"), Service Bell (as "Elder Tongola, Prophet of the New Day Pilgrims"), Alfred Bledger (as "Dancer"), Miriam Burton (as "Bessiola Hicks/Pilgrim Choir"), Howard Carter (as "Pilgrim Choir"), Maggie Carter (as "Sister Judy Ann Hicks"), Thornton Cherokee (as "Chorus"), Sylvanna Cole (as "Chorus"), Ruth Collins (as "Pilgrim Choir"), William O. Davis (as "Brother Goliath Simpson/Novitiate"), Helen Dowdy (as "Ella"), Roxie Foster (as "Dancer"), Awilda Frazier (as "Organist"), Olive Gordon (as "Dancer"), Frank Green (as "Dancer"), Bessie Guy (as "Sister Mattie Fullilove"), Clarence Harris (as "Blind Man"), Edna Mae Harris (as "Sulamai"), Mabel Hart (as "Dancer"), Robert Harvey (as "Brother Esau Redd, Chairman of Deacon Board of Hope, Baptist Church"), Adolph Henderson (as "Sexton of the Hope Baptist Church"), Elijah Hodges (as "Novitiate/Brother George W. Jenkins"), Charles Holland (as "Charlie/Singer"), Martin James (as "Chorus"), James Jones (as "Novitiate"), Lulu B. King (as "Sue Scott, of Toomer's Bottom"), Rosalie King (as "Sister Mahalie Ockletree"), Okey Lawson (as "Chorus"), Robert Lopez (as "Dancer"), Fredye Marshall (as "Sister Mata, Priestess"), Means Mases (as "Chorus"), Inez Matthews (as "Soloist"), Violet McDowell (as "Mary Lou Mack"), Norma Miller (as "Dancer"), Walter Mosby (as "Brother Jo-Ba, Herald of Joy"), Joseph A. Noble (as "Dancer"), Bill O'Neil (as "Dancer"), Caleb Peterson (as Jim, Rev. Jones' Son"), Nyoka Pleasant (as "Dancer"), Bertha Powell (as "Sister Flossie Lou Little"), Geraldine Prillerman (as "Dancer"), James Flash Riley (as "Dancer"), Garfield Ritter (as "Dancer"), Lillian Roberts (as "Dancer"), Edwin Roche (as "Jeems Jackson/Pilgrim Choir"), Norma Ross (as "Dancer"), Gertrude Saunders (as "Gulamai's Mother"), Wardell Saunders (as "Brother Bartholomew Little/Novitiate"), Louis Sharp (as "The Rev. Jones, Pastor of the Hope Baptist Church"), P. Jay Sidney (as "Brother Moses, Young Priest"), Maude Simmons (as "Mother Kanda (as "Daughter of Tongola"), Joan Smith (as "Dancer"), Randall Steplight (as "Brother Jeremiah Johnson"), Andrew Taylor (as "Novitiate"), Eloise Uggams (as "Sister Lulu Jane Hunt"), Eva Vaughan (as "Sister Susie May Hunt"), Dorothy Williams (as "Dancer"), Enid Williams (as "Dancer"). Produced by Lew Cooper. Produced in association with Meyer Davis and George Jessel.
- (September 10 to 15, 1935) He directed L.A. Levy and H. Daniels' play, "Doc Lincoln," at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Gilmor Brown was artistic director. Henry Kolker was also director.
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