Shows · Timbuktu!

Timbuktu!

Opened 1978

243 performances

Musical, Revolution

Eartha Kitt, who was in the 1978 production. Jyh-Lurn Chang @ Homo olympus

Timbuktu! was an all-black version with a revised book and three new songs... It opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 1, 1978, for 243 performances and starred Eartha Kitt as a spectacular Lalume (here, La-Lume) who made an equally spectacular entrance amid a mountain of gigantic colored umbrellas and scantily clad muscle men.

Music: Robert Wright, George Forrest
Lyrics: Robert Wright, George Forrest
Book: Luther Davis

Productions1 on Broadway

1978

Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway Original, opened March 1, 1978, directed by Geoffrey Holder

221 performances

Licensing 1 entry

Music Theatre International Timbuktu! matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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