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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4218
Title'Simply Heaven' by Langston Hughes
Extent1 file
Date1957-1958
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Simply Heaven', based on the authors novel 'Simple takes a Wife'; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list and typescript dates 1958

Performed at The Adelphi Theatre, London, 20 May 1958, closing performance, 7 Jun 1958; presented by Jack Hylton and Laurence Harvey; directed by Laurence Harvey; decor by Edward Burra; choreography by Malcolm Clare; music by Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson and his Band; costumes designed and arranged by Josephine Clinch; lyrics by Langston Hughes; music by David Martin; The Palace Theatre, Manchester, 15 Apr 1958

America: The Playhouse Theatre, New York 1957; The Renata Theatre, New York; Sullivan Street Playhouse, New York, Nov 1957

Casts: Melvin Stewart, Rita Stevens, Earl Cameron, Evelyn Dove, Marpessa Dawn, Chris Gill, David Wu, Bertice Reading, Charles A. McRae, Bari Johnson, John Bouie, Don Johnson, Ilene Day, Richardena Jackson, Conrad Pringle, Harry Baird, Isabelle Lucas, Dorothy Hall, Harold Holness, Jacqueline Chan, Bari Johnson, Yolanda, Neville Crabbe, Allegro Kane, Claudia McNeil
Access StatusOpen

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