The Zulu and the Zayda
Contributors: Davis, Ossie; Gossett, Louis, 1936-; Silver, Joe, 1922-1989; Schary, Dore; Leon, Felix; Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986; Rome, Harold, 1908-1993; Jacobson, Dan, 1929-; Cort Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1965
Language: eng
Description: Cort Theatre, Theodore Mann and Dore Schary present Menasha Skulnik in "The Zulu and the Zayda," a play with music by Howard da Silva and Felix Leon, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, based on the story by Dan Jacobson, Ossie Davis, also starring Louis Gossett as the Zulu, Joe Silver, Sarah Cunningham, John Pleshette, Philip Vandervort, settings and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, costumes by Frank Thompson, musical supervision & orchestrations by Meyer Kupferman, orchestra conducted by Michael Spivakowsky, production stage managers Jeb Schary and Harry Young, directed by Dore Schary.
Notes: Cort Theatre, premiere performance, November 9, 1965.

Title devised by Library staff.

"Playbill. Volume 2. November 1965. Number 11"--p. [3].

Portrait of Menasha Skulnik and Louis Gossett on front cover.

Cast: Ossie Davis, James Higgins, Joe Silver, Sarah Cunningham, Philip Vandervort, John Pleshette, John Randolph Jones, Menasha Skulnik, Norman Barrs, Louis Gossett, Sandra Kent, David Mogck, Peter DeAnda, Yaphet Kotto, Christine Spencer, Ed Hall, Charles Moore, Ella Thompson, Robert Hewitt, Max Jacobs, Sholom Ludvinsky.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).