The River Niger, 1973

The run closed November 25, 1973

Opened

March 27, 1973

Closed

November 25, 1973

Performances

280

Previews

4

Theatre

Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 86th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it12 named

Graham Brown
Jothan Callins
Wyatt Davis
Frances Foster
Dean Irby
Saundra Mcclain
Neville Richen
Les Roberts
Roxie Roker
Lennal Wainwright
Charles Weldon
Grenna Whitaker

0 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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

Douglas Turner Ward

Producer

The Negro Ensemble Company (Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks and Gerald S. Krone, Founders)

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 River Niger at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.