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Byrd's minstrel show revisited (Byrd)

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	*T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16 (Byrd's minstrel show revisited)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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Collection of newspaper clippings of dramatic criticism, 2015/16.

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Reviews (document genre).

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Compiled by The Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.
One review of Byrd's Minstrel Show Revisited, choreographed by Donald Byrd. A cast of 11 dancers in black face are in a semi-circle and interact with an interlocutor between dances. In the first half of the program Donald Byrd appears as himself and later in blackface and takes part in a Mr. Tambo and Mr.Bones routine. In the second half the tone becomes more serious with transcripts read from investigations of shootings of innocent black people, punctuated by the banging of tambourines. Reviewed Nov. 19, 2015, when the show was presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 556 LaGuardia Place, at Washington Square South, New York, N.Y.
Reviewed by Charmaine Patricia Warren in The New York Amsterdam News.
Three other reviews of this production were bound under the title The Minstrel Show Revivisted. See volume M of the *T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16. The reviews are from The New York Times, StageBuddy.com, and dancetab.com.

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*T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16 (Byrd's minstrel show revisited)

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Byrd's minstrel show revisited (Byrd), 2015/16 : reviews.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Compiler

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Collection of newspaper clippings of dramatic criticism, 2015/16.

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*T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16 (Byrd's minstrel show revisited)