Guest Stars DeRon Horton as Hilliard "Hilly" Percy Daggs IV as Pity Martin Bradford as Billy Freres Denise Burse as Shirley Wring Patrick R. Walker as Roger Dawes Enoch King as Alfred Gulla Sonya Eddy as Miss Delia Maury Ginsberg as Moishe Abromovitz Jr. Co Starring Taj Johnson as Artie Charity Jordan as Nina La Fontaine-Lloyd Sheridan Walker as Latisha Sydney Mitchell as Miss Mary Sam Malone as Unwin Lomax Mike Dolphy as Arthur Meany Alicia Kelley as Clara Vogel Imani Spann as Dancer #3 Danielle Swatzie as Dancer #2 Christone "Kingfish" Ingram as Bluesman Keith Andre Martin, Jr. as Dancer #4 Jacques A. Bell as Dancer #5 Merritt Blanks, Jr. as Dancer #6 Taylor Perymon as Dancer #1 Omar McLean as Jasper Darcel Danielle as Miss Molly Dustin Lewis as Charles Southerby Avis-Marie Barnes as Matrice