Kwamina

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54th Street Theatre , (10/23/1961 - 11/18/1961)

Category: Musical, Original, Broadway

Setting: A village in West Africa. The present.

Production Staff
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization
Produced by Alfred De Liagre, Jr.
Book by Robert Alan Aurthur; Music by Richard Adler; Lyrics by Richard Adler; Music orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal; Musical and Choral Direction by Colin Romoff; Dance arrangements by John Morris
Directed by Robert Lewis; Choreographed by Agnes De Mille
Scenic Design by Will Steven Armstrong; Costume Design by Motley; Lighting Design by Will Steven Armstrong; Assistant to Will Steven Armstrong: Lloyd Burlingame; Wig Design by Bob Kelly; Assistant to Motley: Thea Neu
General Manager: C. Edwin Knill; Company Manager: Charles Gnys
Production Stage Manager: James E. Wall; Stage Manager: Arthur Marlowe and William Weaver
Drummer: Montego Joe and Robert Crowder; Music Contractor: Hal Hastings; Assistant Conductor: John Berkman; Music Copyist Supervisor: Bert Clayton Williams
Press Representative: Frank Goodman and Ben Washer; Technical Consultant: Albert Opoku (Courtesy of the Government of Ghana); Press Assistant: Fred Weterick; Assistant to the Director: Judd Mathison; Asst. to the Choreographer: Mavis Ray; Choral Assistant to Mr. Romoff: Joseph Crawford

Cast

Terry Carter	Kwamina (Peter)
Sally Ann Howes	Eve

Understudies: Vaughn Fubler (Kojo), Mary Louise (Alla), Clark Morgan (Akufo, Nana Mwalla, Obitsebi), Helen Phillips (Mammy Trader), Rawn Spearman (Kwamina (Peter)), George Tipton (Ako), Glory Van Scott (Naii) and William Weaver (Blair)

1962 Tony Award^® Best Composer
	Music by Richard Adler; Lyrics by Richard Adler [nominee]
1962 Tony Award^® Best Costume Design
	Motley [nominee]
1962 Tony Award^® Best Choreography
	Agnes De Mille [nominee]

ACT 1	Sung By
The Cocoa Bean Song	Ako, Singers and the Company
Welcome Home	Singers, the Company and Spear Dancers
The Sun Is Beginning to Crow	The Company
Did You Hear That?	Eve and Kwamina (Peter)
You're As English As	Eve
Seven Sheep, Four Red Shirts, and a Bottle of Gin	Akufo, Singers, Dancer and the Company
Nothing More to Look Forward To	Ako and Naii
What's Wrong With Me?	Eve
Something Big	Kwamina (Peter) and the Company
Ordinary People	Eve and Kwamina (Peter)
A Man Can Have No Choice	Obitsebi
What Happened to Me Tonight?	Eve
ACT 2	Sung By
One Wife	Mammy Trader, Alla, Singers and Dancers
Nothing More to Look Forward To (Reprise)	Naii
Something Big (Reprise)	The Company
Another Time, Another Place	Eve
Fetish	Obitsebi and Dancers