This is a knockout show, as hilarious as it is cutting and as emotionally warmhearted as it is politically potent.
Jay O. Sanders, Billy Eugene Jones, Kara Young and Leslie Odom, Jr. in"Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch" at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
Much of the show’s current success is due to Leon, a director who might be late in his career but who has steered a series of curated revivals on Broadway in the last couple of seasons that I’d argue have done more to effect meaningful change in the American theater than the work of any other single individual.
And while I’m hacking on about what this revival gets so right, let me add the timber-centric design by Derek McLane, which appears simple at first but turns out to be like a jigsaw puzzle fitting together Purlie’s aspirations and ending with a church that seems to get built before your very eyes. Leon is a sufficiently experienced director to know when you just have to let a set come out and breathe and that’s what happens here. Truly, it’s beautiful.
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