Raisin
46th Street Theatre
October 18, 1973 - December 28, 1974
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
January 13, 1975 - December 7, 1975
Previews Began: October 10, 1973
Opening Night: October 18, 1973
Closing Night: December 7, 1975
Music: Judd Woldin
Lyrics: Robert Brittan
Book: Robert Nemiroff
Charlotte Zaltzberg
Walter Younger and his mother struggle over how best to use his late father’s insurance money in this musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. Walter hopes to use it to open a liquor store and mother Lena is eager to move her family out of Chicago’s black ghetto.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Prologue…………………………………………………..Company
Man Say…………………………………..Walter Lee Younger
Whose Little Angry Man…………………….Ruth Younger
Runnin’ to Meet the Man…………Walter Lee Younger,
Company
A Whole Lotta Sunlight………………………………….Mama
Booze……..Bar Girl, Bobo Jones, Walter Lee Younger,
Willie Harris, Company
Alaiyo………………………………Asagai, Beneatha Younger
African Dance…………………………….Beneatha Younger,
Walter Lee Younger,
Company
Sweet Time……….Ruth Younger, Walter Lee Younger
You Done Right………………………..Walter Lee Younger
ACT TWO
He Come Down This Morning….Pastor, Pastor’s Wife,
Mama, Mrs. Johnson
It’s a Deal…………………………………Walter Lee Younger
Sweet Time (Reprise)………………………..Ruth Younger,
Walter Lee Younger
Sidewalk Tree………………………………….Travis Younger
Not Anymore…….Walter Lee Younger, Ruth Younger,
Beneatha Younger
Alaiyo (Reprise)…………………………………………….Asagai
It’s a Deal (Reprise)…………………..Walter Lee Younger
Measure the Valleys………………………………………Mama
He Come Down This Morning (Reprise)…….Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Virginia Capers Lena Younger
Ernestine Jackson Ruth Younger
Joe Morton Walter Lee Younger
Deborah Allen Beneatha Younger
Ralph Carter Travis Younger
Robert Jackson Joseph Asagai
Helen Martin Mrs. Johnson
Loretta Abbott Victim
Elaine Beener Bar Girl
People of the Southside
Chief Bey African Drummer
Glenn Brooks People of the Southside
Walter P. Brown Willie Harris
Karen Burke People of the Southside
Paul Carrington People of the Southside
Herb Downer Pastor
Marilyn Hamilton People of the Southside
Don Jay People of the Southside
Eugene Little People of the Southside
Marenda Perry Pastor’s Wife
People of the Southside
Al Perryman Pusher
Zelda Pulliam People of the Southside
Renee Rose People of the Southside
Ted Ross Bobo Jones
Richard Sanders Karl Linder
Chuck Thorpe People of the Southside
Gloria Turner People of the Southside
Understudies: Will Mott (Karl Linder)
REPLACEMENTS
Paul Carrington Travis Younger
Herb Downer Joseph Asagai
Darren Green Travis Younger
Irving Barnes Bobo Jones
Milt Grayson Pastor
Clinton Keen People of the Southside
Edward M. Love, Jr. People of the Southside
Will Mott Karl Linder
Vanessa Shaw People of the Southside
Talbert Stanislaus People of the Southside
Chuck Thorpe Pusher
Eric Townsley People of the Southside
Alyce Elizabeth Webb Pastor’s Wife
People of the Southside
Autris Paige Walter Lee Younger
Mary Seymour Ruth Younger
10/28/75 – 12/7/75
Arnetia Walker Beneatha Younger
Standby: Barbara Montgomery (Lena Younger)