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ADAPTED and DIRECTED by ROBERT GLENN Musical Director ROBERT COBERT Settings, Lights and Costumes ROBERT L. RAMSEY Associate Producer WILHELMINA CLEMENT
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Part I GOD'S TROMBONES by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ADAPTED and DIRECTED by ROBERT GLENN Music Composed and Conducted by Robert Cobert Choreographic Consultant Jay Riley Cast in Order of Appearance THE PREACHER- FREDERICK O'NEAL I. THE CREATION ...... Ted Butler. II. THE TEMPTATION ...... Members of the Congregation. III. NOAH AND THE ARK...... Richard Ward, Members of the Congregation. IV. THE PRODIGAL SON ...... Jay Riley, Frank Glass, Royce Wallace, Congregation. V. LET MY PEOPLE GO ...... Ted Butler, John McCurry, Isabell Sanford. VI. THE JUDGMENT ...... Members of the Congregation, Ted Butler. THE CONGREGATION ...... Ted Butler, Frank Glass, Alma Hubbard, Calden Marsh, John Mccurry, Jay Riley, Isabell Sanford, Royce Wallace, Richard Ward. THE MANDARIN t I HOUSE .. ;:~~~~!it~ AUTHENTIC MANDARIN-STYLE .. sriRRi"t~c:- 1 - l•w1s, Cu• CHINESE FOOD AN.TON CHEKHOV'S Luncheon - Dinner - Supper; COCKTAILS Open Daily Noon to Midnight ~lue,., Wed iree~isters, Thuo., Sun. Evei. 8 40 & Sun Mot NO! NO CHOP SUEY! o t 3 00 . .S2 .50, 3 . 35, 3 90. Fr i. Eve, 8 40 & Sot h e, al 7 00 and 10 15. U .90 & 4 60 133 WEST 13TH ST. WA 9-0551 American Express 4th St. Theatre 83 Eo,t 4th s, .. • AL 4 .7954' Epatez le bourgeois .. Music, f I ne food & choice beverages • th• GUMDROPS recording trio av ailable at your record dealer FREE PARKING ~URANIA Sid Bauman• ho,t UX-120
Part II SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM
by LANGSTON HUGHES ADAPTED and DIRECTED by ROBERT GLENN MUSICAL DIRECTOR ROBERT COBERT Musical Continuity Margaret Bonds Cast in Order of Appearance
NARRATOR ...... Jay Riley BLUES MAN, PREACHER ...... John McCurry ALBERTA K. JOHNSON ...... Alma Hubbard OLD MAN ...... Ted Butler YOUNG MAN·········· ·· ·······~ ·· ·· ················ ···· ·· ·· ············ Calden Marsh CAT, KILLER BOY ...... Frank Glass SICK MAN, BARTENDER...... Richard Ward GIRL IN BAR...... Isabell Sanford CHIPPIE ...... Royce Wallace Place: Harlem Time : The Present
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FREDERICK O'NEAL (Preacher) has tour of that perennial "Porgy and Bess" been the winner of many theatrical and and, !~ the. featured role of Crown, played motion picture awards for his outstanding 79 cities m 29 countries from 1952 to work of an actor. In the role of Frank 1956 .. Other play~ which have kept him in "Anna Lucasta" he scored not only on hoppmg across this country are "Finian's the stage in New York, Chicago and Great Rainbow", "The Last Mile", "Of Mice . Britain, but also in the motion picture of and Men", "Androcles and the Lion", and this play. Broadway has seen Mr. O'Neal he may also be remembered for his ap as Judge Addison in Elmer Rice's "The pearance in the film, "The Last Mile". His Winner", as the befuddled father in "Take TV appearances include the Play-of-the A Giant Step", and also in "House of Week show, "Simply Heavenly," "Green Flowers" with Pearl Bailey, and at the City Pastures" for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Center in the American Opera Series 'The Hasty Heart" for DuPont Show-of "Lost in the Stars." His off-Broadway the-Month. appearance includes "The Man With the ~OYCE WALLACE (Chippie) appeared Golden Arm" at the Cherry Lane and re m a variety of plays· here and abroad. cently, in Cambridge, Mass., he ;ppeared Her Broadway appearances include such with Siobhan McKenna and Zachary Scott plays as "Jamaica," "Requiem for a Nun" as Antonio in "Twelfth Night." Mr. and "Look Homeward Angel", and peopl~ O'Neal scored recently in the Play in Europe and Asia have seen her as fea of-the-Week 5eries, Ernest Hemingway's tured singer with Gypsy Markoff's Revue "The Killers", and followed it up with and the International Revue. Miss Wal another Play-of-the-Week show, "Simply lace has appeared in the motion picture Heavenly." version of "Take 6. Giant Step." JAY RILEY (Narrator), a talented actor ALM.A HUBBARD (Alberta K. Johnson), and designer, is the 1960 winner of the a n3:t1ve of New Orleans, La., majored in Ira Aldridge-Rose McClendon Memorial music and won a BA at the Juilliard School Award of $2500 for acting, at the Paul Mann School, here. His Broadway ap NEW YORK·S NEWEST pearances include the musicals "Peter JAZZ GALLERY Pan," with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, .. ShowcaJe for Modern Jazz" "Finian's Rainbow" with Ella Logan and SO·ST. MARK·S PLACE David Wayne, "On the Town" with Nancy 8th Street near Firs! Avenue Walker, and "Carmen Jones" with Muriel Smith. He has toured the country with Eartha Kitt in "Mrs. Patterson", with Mil ton Berle in "Spring in Brazil", and was featured in the motion picture "Odds Against Tomorrow", with Harry Belafonte. Mr. Riley designed the sets and costumes for Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on tour. NEW YORK·S NEWEST JOHN McCURRY (Brother II in "God's Trombone", Blues Man & Preacher in JAZZ GALLERY "Shakespeare") joined the international "Sho·wcau for Modern Jazz" 80 ST. MARK•S PLACE 8th Street near Fint Avenue of Music here, subsequently appearing as singing soloist at the Lewisohn Stadium on The Gershwin Night. Her Broadway LANGSTON HUGHES, one of America's appearances include "Lost in the Stars", leading authors and poets is often re "Porgy and Bess", and "Shadow of My ferred to as the "O. Henry of Harlem." Enemy", and off-Broadway has seen her An amazingly versatile writer, he has in "Simply Heavenly." She has been seen written poems, novels, children's stories, in television's Studio One, and Kraft plays, librettos, and has even collaborated Theatre. in writing gospel songs. Many of the lat CALDEN MARSH (Young Man) played ter will be included in his forthcoming his first role as the lead in the package Broadway play, "Tambourines to Glory." company of "Take a Giant Step". He also This Spring his new book, "An African appeared in the ELT production of "John Treasury" will be published. Doe", and in the national tour of the ROBERT GLENN (Director-Adapter, Co Theatre Guild's production of "Sunrise at producer) gained most of the theatrical Campobello." experience in the far west-Dallas, Hous TED BUTLER (Old Man) was seen on ton and San Francisco. While directing a Broadway in "Caesar and Cleopatra", and Negro theatre group ·in Dallas he became his numerous off-Broadway credits in interested in the writings of Langston clude "Journey with Strangers", "Family Hughes, and the present script emerged. Portrait", "The Grocery Store". He has Last Spring Mr. Glenn was awarded a played important roles on the road in Ford Foundation Director's Observer's "Finian's Rainbow" "The Hasty Heart" grant and was assigned to the Broadway "John Brown." ' ' production, "Look After Lulu," directed FRANK GLASS 'The Cat, Killer Boy, by Cyril Ritchard. the Prodi,ga/ Son) is a native New Yorker, HOWARD GOTTFRIED (Managing Co just as interested in dancing, singing, writ producer), has previously been co-pro ing, as he is in acting. As dancer-singer ducer for O'Casey's "I Knock At The he appeared on Broadway in the musicals Door", "Purple Dust", and "Cock-a-doodle "Jamaica", and the New York City Center Dandy," and is currently represented by Production of ''Carmen Jones", and also the hit off-Broadway show, John Dos as solo dancer in "On the Town", "Girl Passos' "U. S. A." at the Martinique Crazy", "Street Scene", and in Europe Theatre. Mr. Gottfried however, still finds with Katherine Dunham Dance Company. time to practice law in New York City. As an actor he appeared on the road in "Peer Gynt", "Golden Boy", "Finian's Rainbow". RICHARD WARD (Sick Man, Bartender) has travelled through Europe and the U.S. in many important productions. This country has seen him on the road with Ethel Waters in "The Member of the PRESS REPRESENTATIVES ...... Howard Atlee Wedding", and also in "The Last Mile" Anne Woll and "Detective Story". His European tour PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ...... Kenneth Paine includes "Anna Lucasta", and he has MASTER ELECTRICIAN ...... Pete Santos appeared in Berlin in "Portrait of a Ma PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR ...... Harvey Stuart donna." His TV appearances are too TREASURER ...... Sam Spachner numerous to mention and his film ap SOUND TECHNICIAN ...... Timmy Harris pearances include "Naked City", "Klon PHOTOGRAPHER ...... Avery Willard dike Gold", and "From the Terrace." ISABELL SANFORD (Girl in Bar) cut her dramatic eyeteeth in school plays here in her native New York, and was last seen in featured roles in "The Crucible" at the Playgram is published by The Wilmore Play Martinique Theatre, and before that in gram, Incorporated, 406 Broad Avenue, Pali "The Egg and I" at the Jan Hus Theatre. sades Park, New Jersey. Telephone Windsor Other important roles off-Broadway and 7-1423; in New York call Wisconsin 7-9132. on the road include "Three by O'Neill", All rights reserved. Reproduction without per "Dark of the Moon", "Talent '59", and mission of any material contained herein is noteworthy is her film appearance in "The prohibited. Last Angry Man" with Paul Muni.
SPECIAL NOTE: Sincere thanks and appreciation is extended to Lucille Lortel, Artistic Director of the White Barn Theater and ANTA Matinee Series, where showcase performances of SHAKES PEARE IN HARLEM led inevitably to this commercial production. ,,,
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