The run closed June 9, 1985
- Opened
- October 11, 1984
- Closed
- June 9, 1985
- Performances
- 276
- Previews
- 9
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 79th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 1 more that season
| 2003 | Royale Theatre Revival · Marion McClinton | 68 perf. |
Who was in it12 named
Lou Criscuolo
Scott Davenport Richards
Charles S Dutton
Leonard Jackson
Robert Judd
Christopher Loomis
Aleta Mitchell
Joe Seneca
Angela Bassett
John Randolph Jones
2 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Lloyd Richards
- Producer
- Ivan Bloch
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 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at all.
- No show page for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. 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.