Tags: Musical.
In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house. It featured music by Will Marion Cook book by Jesse A. Shipp and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Produced by McVon Hurtig and Harry Seamon this musical was the first to star African Americans James Smith and George Sisay as well as Bert Williams one of the leading comedians in America at that time.
