
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (1972) - repro
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Micki Grant and Vinnette Carroll’s groundbreaking musical revue 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope' exploded onto the Broadway stage at the Edison Theatre in 1972, running for an astonishing 1,065 performances and capturing four major Tony nominations. Conceived as a highly innovative, entirely through-sung urban musical mosaic, the high-octane production completely discards traditional linear book formatting to fuse soul, calypso, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues numbers into a weapon for civil rights. Directed by Carroll, making her the first Black woman to direct on Broadway.

