The Great White Hope, 1968

The run closed January 31, 1970

Opened

October 3, 1968

Closed

January 31, 1970

Performances

546

Previews

23

Theatre

Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 44th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it71 named

James Earl Jones
Jane Alexander
Thomas Barbour
Verona Barnes
Don Blakely
Dave Brown
Burke Byrnes
David Connell
Lawrence Cook
Sheila Coonan
Lance Cunard
George Curley
George Ebeling
Marshall Efron
Hector Elizondo
Luis Espinosa
Antonio Fargas
Joanna Featherstone
Edd K Gasper
Lou Gilbert
Donald Girard
Ruth Gregory
Joseph Hamer
George Harris Ii
Hilda Haynes
Bob Horen
L Errol Jaye
Woodie King
Ed Lauter
Philip Lindsay
Edward Mcnally
Lou Meyer
Clark Morgan
Terrence O Connor
Jimmy Pelham
Garwood Perkins
Terrance Phillips
Richard Pittman
Dan Priest
Michael Prince
Brooks Rogers
Danette Small
Yvonne Southerland
Dolores St Amand
Larry Swanson
Judy Thames
Christine Thomas
David Thomas
Glory van Scott
Sean J Walsh
Marlene Warfield
Eugene R Wood
Max Wright
Yaphet Kotto
Ruby Greene Aspinall
Ned Beatty
John Byrd
Nathan George
Carl Gordon
Robert Hodge
Barbara Johnson
Ted Tiller
Maria Tucci

8 of these 71 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 63 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

Edwin Sherin

Producer

Herman Levin

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.

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.
• No recording is held for The Great White Hope at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.