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Set My People Free
Play
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Nov 03, 1948
Closing Date
Nov 27, 1948
Performances
29
Play
Original
Broadway
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Hudson Theatre
(Nov 03, 1948 - Nov 27, 1948)
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)
; Associate Producer:
Allyn Rice
Written by
Dorothy Heyward
Staged by
Martin Ritt
Scenic Design by
Ralph Alswang
; Costume Design by
Ernest Schrapps
Choral Director:
Joshua Lee
Somer Alberg
Trader Henri
Thomas Anderson
Jesse Blackwood
Edith Atuka-Reid
Tina
Harry Bolden
Belleisle
Alonzo Bosan
Pompey
John Bouie
Perault Prioleau
Samuel Brown
1st Drummer
Eric Burroughs
Mingo Harth
Tyler Carpenter
Patrolman
Blaine Cordner
Captain Wilson
Harold Des Verney
Blind Philip
George Dosher
Jemmy
Gail Gladstone
Eliza
Juano Hernandez
Denmark
Theodore Hines
Cuppy
Earl Jones
Ned Bennett
Wanza L. King
Benbow
Canada Lee
George
Head Slave
Urylee Leonardos
Blanche
Fredye Marshall
Rachel
William Marshall
Rolla Bennett
William McDaniel
Pharaoh
Charles McRae
Monday Gell
Moses Mianns
2nd Drummer
Bertha T. Powell
The Mauma
Marion Scanlon
Phyllis
Louis Sharp
Lot
Richard Silver
Frank Ferguson
Merritt Smith
Adam
Mildred Joanne Smith
Rose
Earl Sydnor
Peter Poyas
William Warfield
Aneas
Leigh Whipper
Gullah Jack
Musa Williams
Sinah
Frank Wilson
Morris Brown
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)
; Associate Producer:
Allyn Rice
Written by
Dorothy Heyward
Staged by
Martin Ritt
Scenic Design by
Ralph Alswang
; Costume Design by
Ernest Schrapps
Choral Director:
Joshua Lee
Somer Alberg
Trader Henri
Thomas Anderson
Jesse Blackwood
Edith Atuka-Reid
Tina
Harry Bolden
Belleisle
Alonzo Bosan
Pompey
John Bouie
Perault Prioleau
Samuel Brown
1st Drummer
Eric Burroughs
Mingo Harth
Tyler Carpenter
Patrolman
Blaine Cordner
Captain Wilson
Harold Des Verney
Blind Philip
George Dosher
Jemmy
Gail Gladstone
Eliza
Juano Hernandez
Denmark
Theodore Hines
Cuppy
Earl Jones
Ned Bennett
Wanza L. King
Benbow
Canada Lee
George
Head Slave
Urylee Leonardos
Blanche
Fredye Marshall
Rachel
William Marshall
Rolla Bennett
William McDaniel
Pharaoh
Charles McRae
Monday Gell
Moses Mianns
2nd Drummer
Bertha T. Powell
The Mauma
Marion Scanlon
Phyllis
Louis Sharp
Lot
Richard Silver
Frank Ferguson
Merritt Smith
Adam
Mildred Joanne Smith
Rose
Earl Sydnor
Peter Poyas
William Warfield
Aneas
Leigh Whipper
Gullah Jack
Musa Williams
Sinah
Frank Wilson
Morris Brown
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