Real name: Ipi N'tombi

Effective period / Period of releases: 1998

Ipi Tombi (also produced as, both corrupted transliterations of the Zulu iphi intombi, or "where is the girl?"), is a 1974 musical by South African writers Bertha Egnos and her daughter Gail Lakier, telling the story of a young black man leaving his village and young wife to work in the mines of Johannesburg. The show, originally called The Warrior, uses pastiches of a variety of South African indigenous musical styles. The musical has been performed many times with many different casts.