The following is a copy of the program of the first performance of “The Green Pastures,” as presented at the Mansfield Theatre, New York City, Wednesday evening, February 26th, 1930:
Laurence Rivers presents
THE GREEN PASTURES
A FABLE
by
Marc Connelly
Settings by Robert Edmond Jones
Music under the direction of Hall Johnson
Play staged by the Author
“The Green Pastures” was suggested by Roark Bradford’s Southern Sketches, “Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun”
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(In the order of their appearance)
| Mr. Deshee | Charles H. Moore |
| Myrtle | Alicia Escamilla |
| First Boy | Jazzlips Richardson, Jr. |
| Second Boy | Howard Washington |
| Third Boy | Reginald Blythwood |
| Randolph | Joe Byrd |
| A Cook | Frances Smith |
| Custard Maker | Homer Tutt |
| First Mammy Angel | Anna Mae Fritz |
| A Stout Angel | Josephine Byrd |
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