Musicals about the black experience were not unheard of in the early years of the Golden Age of Broadway, despite a society that didn't exactly embrace black culture. Shows like Porgy & Bess (1935), Carmen Jones  (1943), St. Louis Woman (1946) and Lost in the Stars (1949) told compelling stories about this underrepresented faction of the population. What was harder to come by were musi…
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