
Kicks & Co. (Rare 1961 Pre-Broadway Flop) - repro
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Oscar Brown Jr.’s legendary 1961 pre-Broadway musical drama 'Kicks & Co.' infamously collapsed, encountered critical hostility, and closed during its out-of-town tryout engagement at Chicago’s historic Arie Crown Theater, never reaching its planned New York debut. Conceived as a highly ambitious, racially charged contemporary rock opera allegorical satire, the plot centers on a corrupt, smooth-talking devil figure named Mr. Kicks who infiltrates an all-Black southern university campus to commercialize and ruin a progressive student sit-in protest cell. Starring Burgess Meredith, this project remains a top-tier rarity.

