Ambassador Theatre, (4/16/1978 - 4/23/1978)

Category: Play, Original, Broadway
Setting: The apartment of Frankie and Rita and on the streets of Newark, New Jersey.

Opening Night Production Credits 

Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)

Produced by James Lipton Productions; Produced in association with The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President) and Ron Dante

Written by Richard Wesley; Incidental music by Peter Link

Directed by Harold Scott

Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Judy Dearing; Lighting Design by Gilbert V. Hemsley, Jr.

General Manager: Emanuel Azenberg and Jose Véga; Company Manager: Maurice Schaded

Production Stage Manager: David Taylor; Stage Manager: Joseph DePauw

Press Representative: Howard Atlee; Advertising: J. Walter Thompson; Photographer: Martha Swope; Casting: T.N.I. Casting, Julie Hughes and Barry Moss; Special Movement Consultant: John Parks

Dorian Harewood	Frankie
Howard E. Rollins, Jr.	Braxton
Morgan Freeman	Zeke
Frank Adu	Father
Starletta DuPois	Rita
Richard Gant	Eldridge
Brent Jennings	Tiny
Mansoor Najee-Ullah	Lucky

Standbys: Charles Brown (Braxton, Father, Frankie), Loretta Greene (Rita), J. Herbert Kerr, Jr. (Eldridge, Lucky, Tiny).

Understudy: Frank Adu (Zeke).