Sarafina!, 1988

The run closed July 2, 1989

Opened

January 28, 1988

Closed

July 2, 1989

Performances

597

Previews

11

Theatre

James Earl Jones Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 35th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it23 named

Baby Cele
Dumisani Dlamini
Khumbuzile Dlamini
Lindiwe Dlamini
Ntomb Khona Dlamini
Congo Hadebe
Thamsanqa Hlatywayo
Lindiwe Hlengwa
Leleti Khumalo
Siboniso Khumalo
Mhlathi Khuzwayo
Thandani Mavimbela
Nonhlanhla Mbambo
Linda Mchunu
Pat Mlaba
Nandi Ndlovu
Nhlanhla Ngema
Thandekile Nhlanhla
Cosmas Sithole
Kipizane Skweyiya
Harrison White
Thandi Zulu

1 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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

Ndaba Mhlongo

Producer

Lincoln Center Theater (Gregory Mosher: Director; Bernard Gersten: Executive Producer)

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 4 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sarafina!, 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 4 recordings of Sarafina! document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.