5 Musicals with Afro-American Casts

There was a time when Dreamgirls would have been marketed as an "All-Black" musical. Here are five that were:*

Cabin in the Sky (1943, Vincente Minnelli)

Carmen Jones (1954, Otto Preminger)

Hallelujah! (1929, King Vidor)

Porgy and Bess (1959, Otto Preminger)*

Stormy Weather (1943, Andrew L. Stone)

• Andrew L. Stone is the least well-known of the four directors above, but don't worry. He's just as white as the rest of them.
  
  
• For further reading, I highly recommend Donald Bogle's excellent Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood.

*To be fair, Porgy and Bess would technically be an "All-Black Plus Claude Akins Musical," but you try fitting that into a marketing campaign.