Playbill for the Negro Ensemble Company production of God is a (Guess What?)

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A playbill for the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of God is a (Guess What?) at St. Mark’s Playhouse, printed in black ink on white paper. On the cover, at top left, is “NEC” in large black letters running vertically, with “The Negro Ensemble Company” appearing in a circle. The interior pages contain the production information with cast listing, musical numbers, a biography of the playwright (Roy McIver), and biographies for the production staff (Michael A. Schultz, Louis Johnson, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Edward Burbridge, Bernard Johnson, Marshall Williams, Margaret Harris, Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks, Gerald S. Krone) and the actors forming NEC’s resident company (Graham Brown, Norman Bush, Rosalind Cash, David Downing, Allie Woods, Edmund Cambridge, James S. Lucas, Jr., Ted Wilson, and Julius W. Harris.

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