Betty Nichols performed alongside several members of New York’s Black ballet community in Carmen Jones on Broadway. Her co-stars included Al Bledger (American Negro Ballet); Valerie Black (ANB, Negro Unit of Ballet Theatre); Mabel Hart (Negro Unit); Evelyn Pilcher (ANB, Negro Unit, Katherine Dunham Company); Edith Ross (ANB, Negro Unit, Dunham Company); and Dorothy Williams (ANB, Negro Unit). They worked with Eugene Loring, choreographer of the production. 

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Carmen Jones, Playbill

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Carmen Jones premiered December 2, 1943 at the Broadway Theatre on West 53rd Street in New York City. With book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Georges Bizet, the musical was based on Bizet’s opera Carmen and Prosper Mérimée’s novella. This production was instead set during World War II with an all-Black cast. A film version of the musical was produced in 1954 and starred Harry Belafonte.