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Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
Original cast recording
Music	Micki Grant
Lyrics	Micki Grant
Book	Revue
Productions	1971: Washington, D. C. 1972: Broadway 1972: Marker Taper Forum, Los Angeles
Awards	1972: Outer Critics Circle Honour

Don't Bother Me, I Tin can't Cope is a musical revue showtime staged in 1971 with music, lyrics and book past Micki Grant.^[1] It was originally produced by Edward Padula.

Background and productions [edit]

The all-singing, all-dancing prove focuses on the African-American experience with songs on such topics every bit tenements, slumlords, ghetto life, educatee protests, blackness ability, and feminism. The music is a mixture of gospel, jazz, funk, soul, calypso, and soft rock.

The testify had its first staging at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. from September 15 to October x, 1971,^[ii] with subsequent stagings at the Locust and Walnut Street Theatres in Philadelphia.

The restaged Broadway product, directed by Vinnette Carroll and choreographed by George Faison, opened to acclamation on Apr 19, 1972, at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for two months before transferring to the Edison. It had a total run of 1065 performances. In his review of the opening night, Clive Barnes of The New York Times described it as "a mixture of a cake party and a revival coming together" and wrote: "It is the unexpected that is the most delightful. Last night at the Playhouse Theater a new musical came clapping, stomping and stamping in. It is fresh, fun and black ...Black heroes such as Flip Wilson and Godfrey Cambridge, and even Bella Abzug and Ralph Nader are mentioned and the show makes wry mockery of the changing times and celebrates the rise of black aspiration and achievements ... the show is full of talent working together with a cohesion rarely encountered outside the trip the light fantastic toe world."^[3] Time mag theater critic T.Due east. Kalem also praised the prove, writing: "all sky breaks loose on stage. This is the kind of prove at which you want to blow kisses."^[4]

The cast included Micki Grant, Alex Bradford, Hope Clarke, and Arnold Wilkerson. With Vinnette Carroll every bit director, Don't Bother Me, I Tin can't Cope became the showtime Broadway play to be directed past an African-American woman, and Micki Grant was the first woman to write both the music and lyrics to a Broadway musical.^[5]

The 1972 Los Angeles production featured Paula Kelly.

An original bandage recording was released on the Polydor label in 1972, produced past Jerry Ragovoy.^{[6] [7]}

In 2016 the York Theatre Company staged a limited engagement of Don't Carp Me, I Can't Cope with 10 performances between February 27 and March 6.^[4]

In July 2018, the show was revived in the Encores! Off-Centre flavor at New York City Center, choreographed and directed past Savion Glover.^{[8] [9] [10]}

Song listing [edit]

• "I Gotta Keep Movin'" (reprised at play's end)
• "Harlem Streets"
• "Lookin' Over from Your Side"
• "Don't Bother Me, I Tin can't Cope"
• "Fighting for Pharaoh"
• "Proficient Vibrations"
• "Y'all Retrieve I Got Rhythm?"
• "They Go along Coming"
• "My Name Is Man"
• "Dearest Power"
• "Questions"
• "It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling"
• "Time Brings About a Modify"
• "So Little Fourth dimension"
• "Thank Heaven for You"
• "All I Demand"

Awards and nominations [edit]

• Outer Critics Circle Award, best musical, 1972
• Drama Desk Honor for Outstanding Operation (Grant)
• Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Lyricist
• Obie Award for Best Role player in a Musical (Bradford)
• Grammy Laurels for All-time Score from an Original Cast Evidence Album (Grant & Ragavoy)
• Los Angeles Drama Critics Circumvolve Award, Distinguished Management, 1972 (Carroll)
• Los Angeles Drama Critics Circumvolve Honor, Distinguished Functioning (Kelly)
• Los Angeles Drama Critics Circumvolve Award, Distinguished Choreography (Claude Thompson)
• Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Distinguished Musical Direction and Arranging (H.B. Barnum)^[11]
• nominee, Tony Honour for Best Musical, 1973
• nominee, Tony Honor for All-time Volume of a Musical
• nominee, Tony Honor for All-time Original Score
• nominee, Tony Award for Best Management of a Musical

References [edit]

1. ^ Grode, Eric (July twenty, 2018). "A Buoyant '70s Musical About Blackness Lives Lands in 2018". The New York Times.
2. ^ Don't Bother Me, I Tin can't Cope (World Premiere), Ford'due south Theatre
3. ^ Barnes, Clive (April 20, 1972), "Stage: 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope'", The New York Times.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cop [sic] (York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's)", OffBroadway.com, Feb 2016. Archived from the original October eighteen, 2018.
5. ^ Grode, Eric (July 20, 2018), "A Buoyant '70s Musical About Black Lives Lands in 2018", The New York Times.
6. ^ Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Micki Grant. Polydor PD 6013, 1972.
7. ^ "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (1972) | Original Broadway Soundtrack". Reelback.
8. ^ Gordon, David (July 26, 2018), "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope Is a Summertime Celebration", TheaterMania.
9. ^ Greenish, Jesse (July 26, 2018), "Review: With Merely Song and Dance, 'Don't Bother Me' Tells a Huge Story", The New York Times.
10. ^ Herman, Donna (July 26, 2018), "Don't Bother Me I Tin't Cope" (review), The Front Row Eye.
11. ^ "Don't Carp Me, I Can't Cope". Centertheatregroup.org. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-xiv.

External links [edit]

• Internet Broadway Database listing

buchananthersom2002.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bother_Me,_I_Can%27t_Cope

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