The run closed December 7, 1975
- Opened
- October 18, 1973
- Closed
- December 7, 1975
- Performances
- 847
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 31st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Deborah Allen
Helen Martin
Loretta Abbott
Chief Bey
Glenn Brooks
Karen Burke
Paul Carrington
Herb Downer
Marilyn Hamilton
Don Jay
Eugene Little
Marenda Perry
Al Perryman
Zelda Pulliam
Renee Rose
Richard Sanders
Chuck Thorpe
Gloria Turner
Darren Green
Milt Grayson
Clinton Keen
Edward M Love Jr
Vanessa Shaw
Talbert Stanislaus
Eric Townsley
Alyce Elizabeth Webb
Mary Seymour
Arnetia Walker
9 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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.
Characters5 roles recorded
Virginia Capers Lena Younger
Ernestine Jackson Ruth Younger
Debbie Allen Beneatha Younger
Joe Morton Walter Lee Younger
Ralph Carter Travis Younger
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Donald McKayle
- Choreographer
- Donald McKayle
- Producer
- Robert Nemiroff
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.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- The longest-running failure through the 1965-1981 period was 1973’s poorly managed Raisin, for which 847 performances were not enough. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 37
- Following an impressive Broadway debut in 1959 with Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, director Lloyd Richards was hired for—nothing much. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1012
- The onstage singing quartet, though, included Joe Morton, Ernestine Jackson, and Shezwae Powell—all of whom went directly into leading roles in Raisin (1973). More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 949
- Raisin hewed closely to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, addressing questions of African American identity and ambition whose answers were not flattering to a Broadway audience. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 532
- Raisin 847 performances Opened October 18, 1973 Closed December 7, 1975 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 457
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Raisin at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.