IPI-TOMBI
Conception and Music by BERTHA EGNOS
Lyrics by GAIL LAKIER
Choreographyby SHEILA WARTSKI
Additional Choreography by NEIL McKAY and MEMBERS OF THE CAST
In the Zulu tongue, Ipi-Tombi means "Where are the girls?" On the New York opening night, the show not only brought on the girls but also offered an offstage line of black pickets. The cause for complaint is that the musical was conceived and produced by South African whites. The reiterated theme of the pickets is that anyone who supports the show lends his approval to genocide and infanticide. That is an exaggerated description of South African racial policy,...
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