The Blacks: A Clown Show

Theatre
Name: St. Mark's Playhouse
Address: 133 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10009
Production Information
Number of performances: 1408
Opening date: May 4, 1961
Closing date: September 27, 1964
Opening Night Credits

Production Credits
Person/Company Credit
Sidney Bernstein Producer
George P. Edgar Producer
Andre Gregory Producer
Geraldine Lust Produced in Association
  
Jean Genet Playwright
Bernard Frechtman Translator
  
Gene Frankel Director
  
Talley Beatty Movement
  
Kim E. Swados Set Designer
Patricia Zipprodt Costume Designer
Lee Watson Lighting Designer
Patricia Zipprodt Mask Design
  
Max Eisen Press Representative
Robert W. Larkin Press Representative
Lenny Traube Press Representative
  
Maxwell Glanville Production Stage Manager
  
Charles Gross Music Supervisor

Cast
Actor Role
Maya Angelou Queen
Ethel Ayler Augustus Snow
Cynthia Belgrave Adelaide Bobo
Roscoe Lee Browne Archibald Wellington
Godfrey M. Cambridge Diouf
Charles Campbell Drummer
Charles Gordone Valet
Louis Gossett Edgar Alas Newport News
James Earl Jones Deodatus Village
Helen Martin Felicity Trollop Pardon
Jay J. Riley Governor
Raymond St. Jacques Judge
Cicely Tyson Stephanie Virtue Diop
Awards
Award Person / Company Function
1 WON 1961 Obie Award, Special Citation Bernard Frechtman Translator
2 WON 1961 Obie Award, Best New Play Jean Genet Playwright
3 WON 1961 Obie Award, Distinguished Performance Godfrey M. Cambridge Actor