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5-2-1991 The aM tchmaker

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Recommended Citation "The aM tchmaker" (1991). Taylor Theatre Playbills. 151. https://pillars.taylor.edu/playbills/151

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Directed by Dr. Jessica Rousselow David Kenniv Duane Burris Designed by Dr. Oliver Hubbard i Kip Kline Danny Dixon Mark Vanest Tim Kroehler Ben Wilson Jeff Tyner CAST I (in order of appearance) 1.

Horace Emily Brailey *Lisa Curless Vandergelder. . . Bruce Fouse DeAnn Ludeker Sara Banks AmbroseKemper. ....*KurtStout Jennifer VanErden Nicole Fournoy Joe Scanlon Jeff Unruh Gertrude. .Tricia Cable Cornelius Hackl. . rDan Kett Ermengarde ..LisaAngerer Malachi Stack. .John Monis Dolly P1,us i.c oC 8 etac tio tts l-evi. . . .Sandy Walker BamabyTucker. ....JasonWelch by Joelolnr' Etretlss IreneMolloy.... .KarenStafford Minnie Fay. . . *Lisa Curless Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214 Joe... .MatrSnell Radetzky March, Op. 228 Rudolf...... RickCina Pizzicato Polka August. ...Joel Keiscr Emperor Waltz, Qp. 437 FloraVanHuysen. ... LynneKinzer Hazel , *Patty Carroll ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Time: The early 1880's

Our special thanks to Hahn's Little Colonial ACT I Shop, Hartford City, Gladys Hearne of Vandergelder's house in Yonkers, New York Muncie Civic Theatre, Dr. Albert Harrison, and the Taylor Maintenance Department for ACT II Irene their help il preparing for this show. Molloy's hat store, New York. ACT III Itttaaattttaaatatttataataaaaaaaaattaaaoiaattaaat . The Harmonia Gardens Restaurant About the Playwright on the Battery. ACT IV Thornton Wilder was 1897 in born in Flora Van Huysen's house. Madison, Wisconsin, where his father was editor the Wisconsin State Journal. He of There will be a ten-minute intcrmission received his A.B. from Yale 1920 and an in between Act II and Act III. M.A. from Princeton in 1925. His first major work, The Bridge at San Luis Rey, resulted in a Pulitzer Prize and established Wilder's reputation as a writer. He was awardqd his During Intermission second Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town Lemonade will be sold in the lobby and you in 1938 and yet another for The Skin of Our may visit the Annual Student Art Exhibit in Wing. Teeth in 1942. The Matchmaker was a the West success in 1955, running for over a year in New York. In 1967, at the age of 70, Wilder atrattatattttt t atr won the prestigious National Book Award ttatt atttatt aaooaottaat t tttt al for his novel The Eighth Day. Wilder wrote A Communication Arts Department Production his final novel, the somcwhat autobiographical Theophilus North, at the ,.:::,r,".::,:.",:,,::::::.:::::,,":,,::..::.::::.. age of 76, forty-six years after his first successful novel. As a courtcsy to the actors, pleasc do not usc *denotes Alpha Psd Omega membership cameras during the performance. PRODUCTION STAIT

Assistant Directors . . Becky Madsen Amy Phillips Technical Director. Dr. Oliver Hubbard SetCrew. ...JASONWELCH Dan Baltzer Brent Croxton Bruce Fousc Rich Rader Garrick Shanley Scott Thomas

Light Crew DAN KETT Lossing Coxeter Peter Vrhovnik Jason Wolf

Audio Technicians. . . PHIL BAARENDSE Lori Sue Red Mark Steenbarger

Make-up Crew. .MERIBETH SALVESON Christine Barnhart Amanda Miser Mindy Bocken Dawn Russo Laura Coffman Laurie Seiler Debbie Kinch *Tracy Tobey Lani l,eeds Jason Welch Melody Macl-eish Properties .....HOLLYGAFF *DEANNA SLOUGH Sara Banks Wayne Bernhardt Becca Binnington Ellen Christensen Marc Curless Shelly Dudelston Jenn Naylor

Costumes. . SHERRI MAC FADYEN Dawn Bartow Christy Kett Wendy Bilen *Patricia Mumme Julia Borden Genevieve Seefeldt *Patty Ganoll Jennifer Travis Tammy Doornbos Kristina Wierenga Julie Fredeen

House. *ANNETTE HERMAN Lisa Angerer Heather Myers Sharon Biedebach Kim Nelson *Clnthia Cox Charity Smith Jon Filka Karen Stafford Lynnc Kinzer K. T. Strong Karen Kraft Laura Weaver Jennifer Lengacher

Program Cover Design. .Carla Collmer