Broadway Answers Selma
Majestic Theater
New York
April 4, 1965
Responding to the racial injustices in Selma, Alabama, the Broadway community banded together at the Majestic Theater for a fundraiser.
Barbra Streisand sang Harold Arlen's “That's A Fine Kind of Freedom” close to the end of the second act.
Barbra wore a turtleneck dress made of jersey material. She told columnist Earl Wilson, “I asked my designer to make me a turtleneck sweater, but when you come to the end of the sweater, not to stop.”
The poster described the evening as “A thundering never-to-be forgotten performance for the benefit of the late Reverand James Reeb's family, Voters Education Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund of Congress of Racial Equality, The L. & M. Rabinowitz Fund of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.”
Sammy Davis, Jr., who was appearing on Broadway at the time in Golden Boy, hosted the evening.
ACT 1
Intermission
ACT 2
Curtain
Page credits: Scans of the program from that evening were provided to Barbra-Archives.com by Rafe Chase, from his collection. Many thanks!
Photos, below: Streisand (with Anna Maria Alberghetti , left, and Sammy Davis, Jr., right) is wearing her turtleneck sweater-dress underneath her leopard ensemble.
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