Great White Hope, The

Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doubling

Winner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!

"A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tom…