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What do you do when an older show's anti-racist satire can seem racist to modern audiences?

The New York City Center Encores! production of PURLIE runs March 31 - April 3.

Show runs 3/31-4/3, also stars John Cullum, and Doug E. Doug.

More than 50 years after moderate Broadway success, Encores! gives this bountiful Dorothy Fields/ Arthur Schwartz score a much-needed return to Manhattan

Some of Broadway's Top Talent Will Perform Songs by Harold Arlen, Marc Blitzstein, Dorothy Fields, Frederick Loewe and Jule Styne in Celebration Of The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of These Immortal American Songwriters