Imperial Theatre, (11/16/1968 - 8/9/1969)

Category: Musical, Original, Broadway
Setting: The present (and 1924). A Bouzouki circle (and Piraeus, Greece, and Crete).

Opening Night Production Credits 

Produced by Harold Prince; Produced in association with Ruth Mitchell

Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by Joseph Stein; Adapated from "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis; Musical Director: Harold Hastings; Music orchestrated by Don Walker; Dance arrangements by Dorothea Freitag

Directed by Harold Prince; Choreographed by Ronald Field; Associate Choreographer: Tom Rolla

Scenic Design by Boris Aronson; Costume Design by Patricia Zipprodt; Lighting Design by Richard Pilbrow; Hair Design by D. Rusty Bonaccorso; Make-Up Design by Dick Smith; Associate Lighting Design: David Jenkins; Assistant to Miss Zipprodt: Domingo Rodriguez; Assistant to Mr. Hastings: Arthur Wagner

General Manager: Carl Fisher; Company Manager: Warren O'Hara

Production Stage Manager: Ruth Mitchell; Stage Manager: James Bronson; Assistant Stage Mgr: Bob Burland

Instrumental Interlude Soloist: Jerry Sappir, Al Hafid and Angelo Saridis

Press Representative: Mary Bryant, David Rothenberg and Ellen Levene; Dance Captain: George Martin; Casting: Shirley Rich

Herschel Bernardi	Zorba
Maria Karnilova	Madame Hortense
Carmen Alvarez	The Widow
John Cunningham	Nikos
Lorraine Serabian	Leader
Joseph Alfasa	Konstandi
Robert Bernard	Old Man
Wayne Boyd	Grigoris
Connie Burnett	Irini
Peggy Cooper	Athena
Gerrit de Beer	Fivos
Al De Sio	Mimiko
Richard Dmitri	Pavli
Nina Dova	Despo
Juliette Durand	Meropi
Louis Garcia	Chyristo
Lewis Gundunas	Thanos
Al Hafid	Kanakis
Lee Hooper	Efterpi
Nat Horne	Panayotis
Charles Kalan	Aristos
Johnny La Motta	Georgi
James Luisi	Manolakas
Anthony Marciona	Antonis
Suzan Marciona	Tasso
Alicia Helen Markarian	Marina
Martin Meyers	Vasilis
Paul Michael	Mavrodani
Richard Nieves	Katapolis
Edward Nolfi	Zacharias
Jemela Omar	Belly Dancer
Alex Petrides	Alexis
Gerard Russak	Father Zacharia
Jerry Sappir	Kyriakos
Angelo Saridis	Konstantinos
Loukas Skipitaris	Loukas
Marsha Tamaroff	Sophia
Miriam Welch	Aliki
David Wilder	Constable

Swings: Anna Maria Fanizzi, Terry Violino.

Understudies: Peggy Cooper (Leader), Nina Dova (Madame Hortense), Louis Garcia (Mimiko), Lee Hooper (The Widow), Johnny La Motta (Manolakas), James Luisi (Zorba), Martin Meyers (Konstandi), Richard Nieves (Alexis, Loukas), Loukas Skipitaris (Nikos), David Wilder (Mavrodani).