Obba Babatunde

On stage 6 productions, 18 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Obba Babatunde, Cleavant Derricks, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney, Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Deborah Burrellebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• BEN HARNEY, OBBA BABATUNDE, CLEAVANT DERRICKS, JENNIFER HOLLIDAY, LORETTA DEVINE, SHERYL LEE RALPH in “DREAMGIRLS”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• produced by Michael Bennett, Bob Avian, Geffen Records (David Geffen), and the Shubert Organization starring Obba Babatunde, Cleavant Derricks, ee Ben Harney, Jennifer Holliday, and Sheryl Lee Ralphtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• stage, who has featured billing but does as little as a member of the chorus. He looks like a lost tourist. The head rude boy (Obba Babatunde) tries devilishly hard to be mean, but ends up by seemingtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• Leopoldo Fleming; Costumes. Judy Deanng; Set, Jokolo Cooper; Stage Manager, Yaa Shepherd; Props, R. M. Bowdwin; with Frank Adu (Alex), Obba Babatunde (^Ralph). Akinwole Babatunde (Kwami). Lettie Battle (Dancer-spirit). Taurean Blacque (Jason). Mathew Bernard Johnson (Caesar), Charlestheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
• LIZA MINNELLI IN CONCERT with Roger Minami and Obba Babatunde Produced, Written and Directed by Fred Ebb; Choreography, Ron Lewis, Wayne Cilento; Musical Coordinator, Larry Grossman; Cos-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt

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• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
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