Category
page 1All-Black cast Broadway shows
Porgy and Bess
opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. It is based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, and particularly The Supremes, as the musical follows the story of a young Black female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called "The Dreams", who become music superstars.
The Wiz
1974 musical based on the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Fences
1983 play by August Wilson
Treemonisha
thumb|The cover of the Treemonisha score, published in 1911
The Emperor Jones
play written by Eugene O'Neill
Carmen Jones
1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Once on This Island
musical
Shuffle Along
musical with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Four Saints in Three Acts
opera by Virgil Thomson
Cabin in the Sky
1940 musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche
The Color Purple
2005 musical