In 2004, Laurents restaged the show twice with the same cast, in Washington D.C at the Arena Stage and at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey, in order to update and streamline the story for modern sensibilities, and potentially move to New York for a full revival.

She makes her way through the Great Depression, World War II, and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

However, Clem, who became an Army captain and then a civil rights activist, challenges Georgina's life goals.

The musical opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 26, 1967, and closed on January 13, 1968, after 293 performances and 22 previews.

Arthur Laurents felt that "the original production was too soft in its take on black social progress during the first six decades or so of the twentieth century.

Instead it was rewriten for a woman who is one of the nicest women I have ever met in the theatre, Leslie Uggams,--and, God knows, she has a beautiful voice ... she was good, but it wasn't that original show.