Williams and Walker "In Dahomey" Company Cast of 1904

1. Bessie Vaughn
2. Ida Day
3. 'Tiny' Jones
4. Charles Moore
5. Kate Jones
6. ?
7. Jessie Ellis
8. Maggie Davis
9. Hattie Hopkins
10.Bert Williams
11.? Harris
12.George Walker
13.Hattie McIntosh
14.?
15.Renie Norris
16.?
17.Daisy Tapley
18.Lottie Williams (Bert Williams' wife)
19.? Tuck
20.Aida Overton Walker (George Walker's wife)
21.Ella Anderson
22.Lizzie Avery
23.Lavina Rogers
24.Jim Vaughn
25.William C. Elkins
26.Walter Richardson
27.Richard Conners
28.? Barker
29.Will Accoe
30.George Catlin
31.Chip Ruff?
32.Jimmie ?
33.John Lubrie Hill
34.Henri Green Tapley (Daisy Tapley's husband)
35.Henry Troy
36.Marshall Craig
37.Theodore Pankey
38.Harry Stafford
39.Charles L. Saulsbury?
40.Alex C. Rogers

In Dahomey was the first full-length musical written and played by an entirely Black cast to be performed on Broadway. The play was based on a libretto by Jesse A. Shipp, with music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alex Rogers. Cook’s music would become to be considered by many as the ‘turning point for African American representation’.

Source: Robert Kimball Archives

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