Theatre Register

The Song of Jacob Zulu, 1993

Shows · Plymouth Theatre, 1993

Original BroadwayGerald Schoenfeld Theatre 53 performances

The run closed May 9, 1993

Opened
March 24, 1993
Closed
May 9, 1993
Performances
53
Previews
9
Theatre
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 208th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it25 named

Gerry Becker
Pat Bowie
David Connelly
Leelai Demoz
Jubulani Dubazana
Erika L Heard
Gary Dewitt Marshall
Abednego Mazibuko
Albert Mazibuko
Geophrey Mdletshe
Zakes Mokae
Russel Mthembu
Inos Phungula
Tania Richard
Ben Shabalala
Jockey Shabalala
Joseph Shabalala
Seth Sibanda
Alan Wilder
Nicholas Cross Wodtke
Cedric Young

4 of these 25 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
Eric Simonson
Producer
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Randall Arney: Artistic Director; Stephen B. Eich: Managing Director)

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 Song of Jacob Zulu at all.
  • No show page for The Song of Jacob Zulu. 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.

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