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The Williams And Walker Company's musical comedy In Dahomey opens at The New York Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA. This ground-breaking production was described by theatre historian Gerald Bordman as "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house."
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Reviewer, The Freeman : The color line has been drawn during this engagement, a certain part of the house being set apart for the coloured people. Nevertheless, they are there at each performance, arriving in automobiles, coaches, coupes and afoot attired in evening gowns, Tuxedos and swallowtails, just the same as the 'white 400'. At the opening performance there were over one thousand coloured people in the house.
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