Theater
August, 1967
Hallelujah, Baby! is the collective invention of four previously proven theatrical talents--author Arthur Laurents, lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green and composer Jule Styne--but it is no cause for jubilation. The evident intention was to write a musical-comedy chronicle of the American Negro; the result is a compendium of colored clichés. The group show begins with someone's-in-the-kitchen and yassuh-nosuhs its way through Aunt Jemima, the shuffling Pullman porter, the watermelon-smiled b...
