Word: wazir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the real 1953 Kismet probably could not stand up in 1978. A simple damsel (Melba Moore) with a poetic thief for a father (Ira Hawkins) ascends, through incredible accidents, to become the bride of the king of the realm (Gilbert Price) despite the machinations of the Wazir...
...into Timbuktu!-and bringing it to Broadway. Borrowing eleven songs and the plot from the 1953 hit musical, Director-Choreographer Geoffrey Holder has cast the colorful show with blacks and set it in the fabulously wealthy capital of 14th century Mali. Eartha Kitt plays the wife of the wicked Wazir who wrongs Melba Moore, a sweet young country girl. Moore, whose face is dotted with Holder's notion of tribal markings, says that she loves the chance to "kick up my heels a bit" and "to get the prince and live happily ever after-like in all the fairy...