Lucky Sambo

{{Short description|1925 musical comedy}}

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Lucky Sambo was a 1925 musical comedy staged on Broadway.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRmGDwAAQBAJ&dq=joe+byrd+aces+and+queens&pg=PA260|title=The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals|first=Dan|last=Dietz|date=April 10, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781538112823|via=Google Books}} It originally toured as Aces and Queens in 1923 and 1924.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/lucky-sambo-9871|title=Lucky Sambo – Broadway Musical – Original | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}} It was by Porter Grainger and Freddy Johnson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJQyBe_wDj8C&dq=aces+and+queens+joe+byrd&pg=PA5|title=A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans|first=Bernard L. Jr.|last=Peterson|date=October 25, 1993|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313064548|via=Google Books}} It played at the Colonial Theatre (New York City).

Time magazine described it as an imitator of Shuffle Along.{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,720417,00.html|title=The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 15, 1925|magazine=Time |date=June 15, 1925|via=content.time.com}} A June 8, 1925 New York Times write-up for it at the Colonial Theatre called it an amusing and "agile entertainment".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1925/06/08/|title=Site Map - June 8, 1925|work=The New York Times |via=NYTimes.com}} A 1925 advertisement ran for it at the New Hyperion theater. The ad touted it as "The Black Streak of Lightning" and "The World's Fastest Show".{{Cite web|url=https://ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu/?a=d&d=YDN19251207-01.1.4&|title=The Yale Daily News 7 December 1925 — Yale Daily News Historical Archive|website=ydnhistorical.library.yale.edu}}

It starred Billy Higgins and Joe Byrd. They were also together in Midnight Steppers in 1927.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJQyBe_wDj8C&dq=joe+byrd+vaudeville&pg=PA235|title=A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans|first=Bernard L. Jr.|last=Peterson|date=October 25, 1993|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313064548|via=Google Books}}

Ernest Whitman appeared in a touring version of the show.