Ray Yeates

A singer and actor on Broadway for twenty years. He was Brother Bartholomew Little in Run, Little Chillun in 1933, Angrum in Stevedore at the Civic Repertory Theatre in 1934, and both Nelson and the Crab Man in the first Porgy and Bess the following year. He sang with the Hall Johnson Choir in Susanna, Don't You Cry in 1939, was a rouster and the lead heaver in John Henry in 1940, and returned to the Crab Man in the 1953 revival of Porgy.