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[[Start Page]] Newport Lights Alive with pleasure! [[Warning box]] Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. [[end warning box]] 9 mg. "tard", 0.7 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette, FTC Report March 1984. [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. Satin-- Candy Brown; Doyle and Doorman-- Brian McKay; Gus-- Joey Faye; Harry and Solly-- Oscar Stokes; Romaine-- Dana Lorge; Ruby, Kitty, Vernelle, Fleta, Linette-- Gayle Samuels; Maybelle-- Ruth Brisbane; Mrs. Faye-- Carol Woods; Grover-- Raymond Rickman; Stage Manager and Swing-- David Reitman. Standby for Leroy............................Obba Babatunde Additional Orchestrations.........................Jim Tyler and Harold Wheeler Dance music for "New Man"........................arranged by Gordon Harrell [[BOLD TITLE]] WHO'S WHO in the CAST [[COlumn 1]] BEN VEREEN (/Leroy/) is returning to Broadway for the first time since his Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning performance in /Pippin/. He also starred on Broadway in /Hair/ and as Judas in /Jesus Christ Superstar/. His cabaret act received raves in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and garnered him 1978's Entertainer of the Year, Rising Star and Song and Dance Star awards from the American Guild of Variety Artists. A 240-mile bicycle ride in mainland China culminated with a live performance for a proposed television special. His best known television roles are Uncle Phillip on "Webster" and Chicken George, for which he won the TV Critics Award, in the Emmy Award-winning "Roots." This led to his own network special, "Ben Vereen -- His Roots," which won seven Emmy Awards. Mr. Vereen was also seen in "Louis Armstrong-- Chicago Style," the syndicated ABC-TV series "Tenspeed and Brownshoe," "Night of 100 Stars," "Here's TV Entertainment," "Sa- [[Column 2]] lute to the USA Olympic Team," "Antoinette Perry Awards," "Lynda Carter Special," "Two Hour Love Boat Musical Special," "The Jesse Owens Story," "Statue of Liberty Special," "Ellis Island" and numerous other shows. He will be seen this season in Showtime's Faerie Tale Theatre's "Puss 'n Boots," the "Ringling Bros. TV Special" and the "New Jersey and You" commercial. On film, Mr. Vereen has starred in /Funny Lady, Sweet Charity, All That Jazz/ and the forthcoming /The Zoo Gang/ and /Breakin' Through./ Mr. Vereen's many humanitarian awards include the prestigious 1978 Israel Cultural Award and the NAACP's Image award in both 1977 and 1978. He serves as Chairman of the American Heart Association's Dance for the Heart Campaign and as International Chairman for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. STUBBY KAYE (/Gus/), a native of the Bronx, was discovered on a Major Bowes Radio Amateur Program and toured the U.S. with the winners. During WWII he [[Bottom of page advertisement]] DON'T MISS A WORD! /INFRARED/ LISTENING SYSTEMS NOW AVAILABLE IN MOST THEATRES INQUIRE AT BOX OFFICE SEE THEATRE DIRECTORY sound associates, inc. 424 west 45th street, new york, n.y. 10036 (212) 757-5679
