Timbuktu! (Broadway, Times Square Church, 1978) | Playbill

Timbuktu!

Broadway
Musical
Original


SYNOPSIS: This revision of Kismet, the musical tale of a wily poet who helps his daughter marry a prince while enjoying a dalliance of his own, is set in the half-mythical Timbuktu region of Mali in West Africa, and features an all-black cast and five new songs by Robert Wright and George Forrest taken from African folk music.
People (62)

Awards

Drama Desk Award
1978 Outstanding Costume Design Nominee
1978 Outstanding Choreography Nominee
Tony Award
1978 Most Innovative Production of a Revival Nominee
1978 Best Actor in a Musical Nominee
1978 Costume Design (Play or Musical) Nominee
1978 Best Actress in a Musical Nominee
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