Your Arms Too Short to Box with God | |
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A Soaring Celebration in Song and Dance | |
![]() 1976 Broadway Playbill | |
Music | Alex Bradford Micki Grant |
Lyrics | Alex Bradford Micki Grant |
Book | Vinnette Carroll |
Basis | The Book of Matthew |
Productions | 1976 Broadway 1980 Broadway revival 1982 Broadway revival |
Your Arms Too Short to Box with God: A Soaring Celebration in Song and Dance is a Broadway musical based on the Biblical Book of Matthew, with music and lyrics by Alex Bradford and a book by Vinnette Carroll, who also directed. Micki Grant was credited for "additional music and lyrics".
A 1980 revival was the Broadway debut of star Jennifer Holliday, then billed as Jennifer-Yvette Holliday.[1]