Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, 1971

The run closed July 30, 1972

Opened

October 20, 1971

Closed

July 30, 1972

Performances

325

Previews

10

Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 73rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it19 named

Barbara Alston
Toney Brealond
Marilyn Coleman
Bill Duke
Gloria Edwards
Joe Fields
Clebert Ford
Arthur French
Minnie Gentry
Carl Gordon
Albert Hall
Jimmy Hayeson
Sati Jamal
Lauren Jones
Garrett Morris
Madge Wells
Ralph Wilcox
Dick Anthony Williams
Beatrice Winde

0 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Gilbert Moses

Producer

Eugene V. Wolsk

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.