Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at DCPL - Intro notes
The most interesting and, indeed, the most foundational bit of the back story of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is that in its original form, the play had only five characters: Ma, Dussie Mae, Sylvester, Irvin and Sturdyvant. The band members did not have an existence in the original form of the play.
That 1976 version of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actually pred…
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