Sponsor Message Cork, as in blackface. The scriptwriters, Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, who met at Fisk University, were blackface vaudeville comedians. "To be a Black actor and perform in ...

Thanks in large part to the efforts of Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles, and every member of the company who agreed to go on the ride alongside them, even though success ...

Four men created the original 1921 play, composer Eubie Blake and lyricist Noble Sissle, writer-actors Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, and brought new sounds and moves to Broadway. The play ...

With music by Eddie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle, and a book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, the production featured good songs like “(I’m Just) Wild About Harry” and energetic ...

Flournoy Miller (from the top), Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake and Aubrey Lyles in a publicity photo from the 1921 production of “Shuffle Along,” the groundbreaking hit musical that brought Black e ...

In 1921, they set out to write a musical with another vaudeville duo, Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles. Miller & Lyles were a black comedy team who met at Fisk University. But onstage, they played ...

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