The run closed September 30, 1972
- Opened
- May 16, 1972
- Closed
- September 30, 1972
- Performances
- 164
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 116th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it14 named
Joshie Jo Armstead
Nate Barnett
Frank Carey
Robert Dunn
Rhetta Hughes
Joe Keyes Jr
Avon Long
Geo Ooppee Mccurn
Esther Rolle
Jay Vanleer
David Connell
3 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Producer
- Melvin Van Peebles
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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Don't Play Us Cheap! at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Don't Play Us Cheap!. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.