Polly
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Debbie Allen
Casts & Crew
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Phylicia Rashād
Dorian Harewood
T. K. Carter
Vanessa Bell Calloway
Larry Riley
Butterfly McQueen
Brock Peters
Celeste Holm
George Anthony Bell
Tom McGreevey
Michael Peters
Also Directed by Debbie Allen
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A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of Christmas thanks to the local townsfolk – and an actual angel. Features 14 original songs with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton!
Four young black women try to achieve their dreams of success in the 1930s Harlem.
A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life. Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.