Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 2003

The run closed April 6, 2003

Opened

February 6, 2003

Closed

April 6, 2003

Performances

68

Previews

14

Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 254th 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

Who was in it5 named

Louis Zorich1924–2018

Charles S Dutton
Jack Davidson
Carl Gordon
Stephen Mckinley Henderson

1 of these 5 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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

Marion McClinton

Producer

Sageworks (Benjamin Mordecai, Executive Producer; August Wilson)

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.