Thursday Eve. Thursday Eve. APR 19 2 SHOWS: 7 & 9:15 APR • 26 2 SHOWS: 7 & 9:15
Musical Director Choreography l>y Will Lorin Walter Nicks Millard Thomas A.ccomponi.r Jo:- Mr. Belajonle ,;" .c:·rgw.. ::w ·;;;., .. ··}~@~0m]tdv:m8' .,.·'*=t~ il ~h!:;::g~r;;:t.u•;:~:~~~~ ~:r:,~~.~~ ~J tij The NEW Idea in 1\olu si("a) Entertainment! ,)f Produrtion Conceived ond Direded by Joy Richard Kennedy PRICES-include all tax PRICES-include all tax $2.00 * 2.50 * 3.00 * 3.50 * 4.00 $2.00 * 2.50 * 3.00 * 3.50 * 4.00 MAIL ORDERS BEING FILLED NOW so~ orriC~ HOW TO ORDER-Plainly mark order for SING, MAN, SING or RECORD STARS or both and state whether for o~>~NS 7 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. performance. Make · checks payable to: ~• p.!>RI\. q MUSIC, UNLIMITED! and enclose stamped, self-addressed Mo ..... envelope for return of tickets. Send your order to AUDITORIUM THEATRE, 875 MAIN ST. EAST. - FREDERICK ROBERT E. HAROLD S. BRISSON GRIFFITH PRINCE (In Association with ALBERT B. TAYLOR) present BOBBY CLARK in "DAMN YANKEES" The Musical Comedy Hit (Based on the Novel, "The Year the Yankees lost the PenQnant," by Douglass Wallop) with ALLEN ROSEMARY SID CASE KUHLMANN STONE JO LUCY Al JOE HURT GREENO CHECCO Hill and SHERRY O'NEIL Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and DOUGLASS WALLOP Music and Lyrics by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by BOB FOSSE Scenery and Costumes Designed by WILLIAM & JEAN ECKART Musical Direction by Orchestration by WILLIAM PARSON DON WALKER Dance Music Arrangements by ROGER ADAMS Production Directed by GEORGE ABBOTT Wlto AWJro in 1M C.aAJ BOBBY CLARK (Applegate) Bobby Clark and Paul McCul- lough were school mates in Spring- field, Ohio, when the youngsters' talents and ambitions lay in the field of acrobatics. The "team" was unemployed, while they fin- ished school and practiced tum- bling. Their first job was with the Cul- 35 CLINTON AVENUE NORTH hane, Chase and Western min- strels, for whom they sang, danced, BAker 1210 tumbled and juggled until the show left them stranded in Dela- ware. Another touring minstrel stint, and they transferred to the circus, where comedy first began creep- ing into their act. They spent a season under canvas with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, toured Mexico with Sells-Floto show and the~ joined Ringling Brothers as a pair of clowns. After a dozen years under the big top, they got into vaudeville. A .DELICIOUS SI.ICE OF A few years later, these con- ROAST STANDING querors of minstrelsy, circus, PRimE RIBS DF vaudeville and burlesque, made BEEF AU JUS their debut in a fifth field-the Broadway musical. Baked Idaho Potuo Caesar Salad Rolls Butter Sam Harris's "Music Box Re- vue," with music by Irving Ber- *2.95 lin, was their first show of that kind. They appeared in three of the Harris-Berlin revues. Sui:RATON riark and McCullough were UoTu -:; ..lined for the first time in "The Ramblers." Their last show for MO ..~ General Manager the team was "Strike Up the Band," as McCullough died in 1936 and Clark was working as a IT'S NO SECRET ... everyone knows House of - ~rpets for largest selection, finest quality, budget-mmded prices RUGS • CARPETS • BROADLOOMS The H~~<:.~~Q~r,pels.tnc. FREE PARKING HDieide 1193 Open until 9:00 p.m. every night except Monday and Saturday
CAST (as they appear) MEG ______ROSEMARY KUHLMANN JOE BOYD ______.JOE HILL APPLEGATE ______BOBBY CLARK SISTER ______LUCY GREENO DORIS ______HILDEGARDE HALLIDAY JOE HARDY------______ALLEN CASE HENRY------·------BILL McDONALD SOHOVIK ______LARRY HOWARD SMOKEY ------·------BURT BIER VERNON ______, ______ROGER FRANKLIN VAN BUREN ______SID STONE ROCKY ------~ AL CHECCO
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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I. SIX MONTHS OUT OF EVERY YEAR ______Rosemary Kuhlmann, Joe Hill, Baseball Fans, Baseball Widows GOODBYE, OLD GIRL ______Joe Hill, Allen Case HEARL ______Sid Stone, AI Checco, Burt Bier, Roger Franklin, Joe Flynn SHOELESS JOE FROM HANNIBAL, MO. ______Jo Hurt and Baseball Players A MAN DOESN'T KNOW ______Allen Case A LITTLE BRAINS-A LITTLE TALENL______Sherry O'Neil A MAN DOESN'T KNOW (Reprise) ______AIIen Case, Rosemary Kuhlmann WHATEVER LOLA WANTS ______Sherry O'Neil HEART (Reprise) ______lucy Greeno and Heart Quartet WHO'S GOT THE PAIN? ______Sherry O'Neil and larry Howard (Dance Staged by Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon) ·
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267 MAIN STREET EAST ACT II. THE GAME ______Af Checco, Burt Bier & Baseball Players NEAR TO YOU ------~------AIIen Case, Rosemary Kuhlmann THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS ______Bobby Clark TWO LOST SOULS ______.Sherry O'Neil, Allen Case and Guys & Dolls A MAN DOESN'T KNOW (Reprise) ______Rosemary Kuhlmann, Joe Hill
UNDERSTUDIES FOR "DAMN YANKEES"
Note: Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement of the appearance is made at the time of the performance. Applegate-A! Checco; Joe Hardy- Larry Pool; Welch & Commissioner-Bert Vollencourt; Van Buren- Bill McDonald; Joe Boyd- Roger Franklin; Rocky, Sohovik- Howard Kr ieger; Doris-Beatrice Salten; Lola- Pattie Ferrier; Smokey- Joe Flynn; Postmaster- Bill McDon- ald; Sister- Hildegarde Holliday; Gloria- Joyce Barker; Meg-Charlotte Fairchild.
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ORIGINAL CAST recording is exclusive on RCA VICTOR on both LP and 45 - ask for LOC/ EOC I 021 ROSEMARY KUHLMANN SID STONE (Meg) (Van Buren) Sid Stone's face is familiar to Rosemary Kuhlmann h~Js hith- all those TV fans who have been erto been associated with musical works somewhat less frivolous delighted at his characterization of the fast-talking pitchman on the than "Damn Yankees." A New Milton Berle Texaco Show for four y orker by birth, and a student of years. Mr. Stone first tried his tal- }uilliard, Miss Kuhlmann was ents in 1925 in the "Kuddling trained for a career in opera and Kuties" Company, on the then made her first professional appear- flourishing burlesque wheel. In ances . with the New York Opera 1939 he attracted attention as the Company and with the NBC-TV Candy Butcher in "The Fabulous Opera Theatre. She sang in the Invalid," the Hart-Kaufman love World Premiere of Gian-Carlo letter to the Theatre. This was Menotti's "Amah! and the Night followed by appearances in "The Visitors," and Mr. Menotti re- Man Who Came to Dinner"; engaged her in 1951 for an impor- "High Kickers," with Sophie tant role in "The Consul." Last Tucker and Jeorge Jessel; "Three season in New York she gave a Men on a Horse"; and "Interna- brilliant portrayal of Desideria in tional Incident" w·'n Ethel Barry- "The Saint of Bleeker Street." more. Between stage chores he Miss Kuhlmann has also been seen has app~ared in supper clubs and in sundry summer operettas on presentation houses from coast to television's "Omnibus." coast.
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1-451 WEST LAKE ROAD - CONESUS LAKE Phone Geneseo -479 for Reservations Assistant ta William and Jean Eckart-ScenerY------Kiaus Holm Assistant to William and Jean Eckart-Costumes.______Hazel Roy Assistant to Mr. Foase ...·------Zoya Loporska Technical Advisor on Fabrics ______------William Winokur The management wishes to express its gratitude to Mel Allen and Russ Hodges for the sportscast sequences in "Damn Yankees."
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