
Buck White (Muhammad Ali musical, 1969, repro)
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Oscar Brown Jr. and Joseph Dolan Tuotti’s 'Buck White' completed its celebrated original Broadway premiere run at the George Abbott Theatre in 1969, remaining a monument for musical book scholars tracking historical civil rights properties. The through-sung soul-and-gospel rock opera updates a black power political meeting corridor into an active canvas of vocal showmanship and ideological strategies, achieving permanent immortality by casting heavy weight boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his definitive stage lead role turn.

