The run closed July 20, 1975
- Opened
- June 10, 1975
- Closed
- July 20, 1975
- Performances
- 48
- Previews
- 3
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 271st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it13 named
Charles Brown
Carl Crudup
Peter Demaio
Frances Foster
Moses Gunn
Bebe Drake Hooks
Janet League
Anthony Mckay
Barbara Montgomery
Lou Leabengula Myers
Petronia
Reyno
1 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Douglas Turner Ward
- Producer
- The Negro Ensemble Company (Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks and Gerald S. Krone, Founders)
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 The First Breeze of Summer at all.
- No show page for The First Breeze of Summer. 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.