The Red Moon (Johnson and Cole)

The Red Moon is a musical or operetta in three acts with music by J. Rosamund Johnson and both book and lyrics by Bob Cole. Additional music was contributed by James Reese Europe who composed the song "Sambo" for the show, and co-wrote the song "Ada (My Sweet Potater)" with Cole and lyrics by Charles A. Hunter. Labeled and marketed by its creators as a "sensation in red and black", the work has been classified variously by theatre scholars as a musical and an operetta. The show was created by African Americans and starred an all-Black cast in its original 1908–10 production. The show is regarded as historically important to American theatre because it was the first Broadway show to depict alliances between African Americans and Native Americans.

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