Theater
June, 1970
Billy Noname is the sort of show that, several seasons ago, Hallelujah, Baby! pretended to be. A kaleidoscopic chronicle of the changing life of the Negro--from servitude to self-expression--Billy Noname is rambling and discursive, but it has guts, drive and passion. Its main fault is that there's too much of it. Yet, the unevenness of William Wellington Mackey's book is more than offset by the power of Johnny Brandon's music, which draws eclectically upon blues, jazz, Gospel and rock. The chore...
