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the new york magazine program 
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SEVENTY-SECOND STREET AT FIFTH AVENUE
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LEO REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

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Costumes executed by Helene Theatrical Costume Company and Louis Guttenberg. Wigs and beards by Shindhelm. Lighting effects by Duwico. Scenery built by Turner Scenic Construction Company. Painted by Robert Bergman Studio. 
Acknowledgement is made to Alma Lillie Hubbard of New Orleans for her assistance in the selecting of the spirituals. 

AUTHOR'S NOTE
"The Green Pastures" is an attempt to present certain aspects of a living religion in the terms of its believers. The religion is that of thousands of Negroes in the deep South. With terrific spiritual hunger and the greatest humility these untutored black Christians—many of whom cannot even read the book which is the treasure house of their faith—have adapted the contents of the Bible to the consistencies of their everyday lives. 
Unburdened by the differences of more educated theologians, they accept the Old Testament as a chronicle of wonders which happened to people like themselves in vague but actual places, and of rules of conduct, true acceptance of which will lead them to a tangible, three-dimensional Heaven. In this Heaven, if one has been born in a district where fish frys are popular, the angels do have magnificent fish frys through an eternity somewhat resembling a series of earthly holidays. The Lord Jehovah will be the promised comforter, a just but compassionate patriarch, the summation of all the virtues His follower has observed in the human beings about him. The Lord may look like the reverend Mr. Du Bois as our Sunday School teacher speculates in the play, or he may resemble another believer's own grandfather. In any event, His face will have an earthly familiarity to the one who has come for his reward. 
The author is indebted to Mr. Roark Bradford, whose re-telling of several of the Old Testament stories in "Ol' Man Adadm an' His Chillun" first stimulated his interest in this point of view. 
One need not blame a hazy memory of the Bible for the failure to recall the characters of Hezdrel, Zeba and others in the play. They are the author's apocrypha, but he believes persons much like them have figured in the meditations of some of the old Negro preachers, whose simple faith he has tried to translate into a play.

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