Fly Blackbird

• World Premiere (1961)
  Los Angeles, CA
• Original Off-Broadway Production (1962)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Everything Comes to Those Who Wait
• Now
• Big Betty's Song
  • aka Loud and Wrong [no note]
  • aka This is Big Betty [no note]
• I'm Sick of the Whole Damn Problem
• Who's the Fool?
• Right Way
  • aka The Right Way [no note]
• Couldn't We
• The Housing Cha-Cha
• Natichoches, Louisiana
• Fly Blackbird
• The Gong Song
• Rivers to the South
• Lilac Tree
• Twilight Zone
• The Love Elixir
  • aka My Love Elixir [no note]
• Mister Boy
  • aka Mr. Boy [no note]
• Old White Tom
• Wake Up
• Think It Over

Cut prior to opening

• Step on a Stone

A group of African Americans are divided. Some want equality now. Some want to wait to see what happens.

Adapted by Jerome Eskow.