Ossie Davis’s 1961 comedy, starring “Hamilton’s” Leslie Odom Jr., has its official opening on Broadway at the Music Box.
Sanders’s Ol’ Cap’n Cotchipee, a fulminating fossil of Old South White supremacy, is such a ripe target for abuse that you wonder why “Purlie Victorious” hasn’t been back on these boards way before now. Maybe the worry has been that the offensiveness of Ol’ Cap’n’s mouth was too harsh for contemporary ears.
Others orbit these actors with their own risible gravitational pulls: Vanessa Bell Calloway, playing Ol’ Cap’n’s seen-it-all housekeeper, Idella; Noah Robbins as his subversively wily son, Charlie; and Heather Alicia Simms and Billy Eugene Jones as Missy and Gitlow Judson, the wary couple down the hill from Ol’ Cap’n’s house.
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