Editing Timbuktu! (section)

== Original cast and characters ==
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!scope="col"|Character
!Broadway (1978)<ref>[https://www.playbill.com/productions/timbuktu-mark-hellinger-theatre-vault-0000005786#carousel-cell194127''Playbill 1978 Bio Cast List'']accessed 07/22/2023</ref>
!First National Tour (1978)<ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/324738001871''Playbill 1978 Bio Cast List'']accessed 07/22/2023</ref>
|-
!Sahleem-La-Lume 
| colspan="2" |[[Eartha Kitt]]
|-
!Marsinah
| colspan="1” |[[Melba Moore]]
| colspan="1” |Vanessa Shaw
|-
!The Mansa of Mali
| colspan="1” |[[Gilbert Price]]
| colspan="1" |[[Bruce Hubbard]]
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!Hadji
| colspan="1" |Ira Hawkins
| colspan="1" |Gregg Baker
|-
!Munshi
| colspan="1" |Miguel Godreau
| colspan="1" |Homer Bryant
|-
!The Wazir
| colspan="2" |George Bell
|-
!Chief Policeman
| colspan="1" |[[Bruce Hubbard]]
| colspan="1" |Ronald A. Richardson
|-
!Najua
| colspan="1" |Eleanor McCoy
| colspan="1" |Dyane Harvey
|-
!M'Ballah of the River
| colspan="2" |Daniel Barton
|-
!Zubbediya
| colspan="1" |Vanessa Shaw
| colspan="1" |Priscilla Baskerville 
|-
!The Orange Merchant 
| colspan="1" |[[Obba Babatundé]]
| colspan="1" |Luther Fontaine
|}