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Summer 8-4-1959 Naughty Marietta Little Theatre on the Square

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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1959 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1959 Shows Programs by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. August 4 through August 9, 1959 Who's Who in the Cast . - . JEFF WARREN (Clpt Dick Warrington) is a met and agaln in Cali Me Madam BPd Briga- native of South Dakota, who has appeared op doon. Mr. Warren is also one of the few younger posite every leading lady of the musical comedy American actors to be listed in Who's Who in stage on Broadway during the past decade. While the Theatre. Following his appearance with Sum- at the University of Minnesota, Mr. Warren mer of Musicals, he will return to New York majored in both music and drama and gained to go into rehearsals for the revue. Lsnd An Ear. experience in a long lilt of college productions which will open off-Broadway in September at of plays, operas. musical comediea and oratorios. the Renata Theatre. Against the advice of his professon and friends, JOAN SENA (Marietta D'Altena) comes to the he decided to go to New York to try his luck Grand with an impressive record in the world of on Broadway. Arriving on a Saturday, he got music. Her studies in opera began at the Uni- his first job the following Monday as tenor solo- versity of Miami, where she appeared with the ist with the touring company of Kurt Weill's University Symphony and Chorus and sang the Lady in th Dark, which starred Gertrude Lawr- role of the Countess in Song of Norway. Having ence. A month after the opening of Kurt Weill's received her degree in Music, Miss Sena has next Broadway sutkess, Om Touch of Vemrs, he continued her vocal studies in New York and had the opportunity that all understudies dream in Milan, Italy. While in Miami, she sang Mu- of-he went on during Kenny Baker's ex'ended setta in La Bohew in a production co-starring illness to play opposite Mary Martin. The re- Jan Peerce and Hilda Gueden. As a member of sult of this was a new part in the Jackie Glea- the Miami Opera Guild, she understudied Eleanor son show, Follow the Girls and a short excursion Steber and Nadine Connor of the Metropolitan with Hollywood Pinafore which starred Shirley Opera in Cosi Fan Tutti and Faust. With New Booth, Victor Moore and Annamary Dickey The York's City Center Opera Company, she appeared following autumn, Mr. Warren appeared in Ler- as Micaela in Carmen. Her Italian operatic debut ner and Loewe's first New York success, The was in the roles of Musetta and Mimi in La Day Before Spring and a year later in their sec- Boheme in Bergamo. Miss Sena was a winner ond. Brigadoon. This show kept him busy for of the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts program in three years-through the New York run and al- 1556 and has appeared on television in Havana, ternating between playing the roles of Charlie Cuba. Her Musical Comedy appearances have iu- and Tommy in two touring companies which cluded Carousel and Brigadoon Her many roles played the forty-eight states. It was while he in opera include Violetta in LaTraviata. Cio- was engaged with Gentlemen Prefer BIondes that Cio-San in Madame Buttefly, and Marguerite in Mr. Warren was offered the opportunity of ap- Faust. In addition she has appeared in Pagliacci, pearing opposite Ethel Merman in Call Me Don Pasquale, and Menotti's The Telephone. In Madam for three months while Russell Nype concert, she has sung in oratorios of Verdi, Ros- wen: to Hollywood. He was then engaged to sini, Brahms and Gounod. Miss Sena has per- create the same role in the London production formed at the leading hotels in the Miami Beach of Can Me Madam and remained in England to area including the Eden Roc, the Sherry Fronte- play leading roles in Weddirrg in Paris. While nac and the Roney-Plaza. Among her summer in England he also had the honor of appearing theatre credits are engagements at the Parkway in the first Royal Command Performance for Playhouse in North Carolina and at the Green Queen Elizabeth 11, as well as on many tele- Mansions Summer Theatre. Following her ap- sion and radio programs, concerts and night pearances here in Naughty Marietta and Song of clubs. In summer theatres he has appeared in Norway, Miss Sena returns to the New York such productions as Carousel, Paint YmWag- City Center. She then crosses the Atlantic to on, The Most Happy Fella, South Pacific, Kis- sing in leading opera houses in Spain and Italy.

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Production Directed by SIDNEY EDEN Choreography and Mueical Numbers Staged by Designed and Lighted by JOEL SCHNEE ANDREW GREENHUT Musical Direction by Costumes by EDDIE McCARTY JESSIE

CAST TOWN CRIER ------Jan Munch FLORENZE ------Bob Fahey GOVERNOR GRANDET ------John Kelso ETIENNE GRANDET ------Ted Lawrie FANCHON ------Myrna Ems NANETTE ------Jeannie Hotard FELICE ------Judy Runyon ADAH ------Shirley Thayer CAPTAIN RICHARD WARRINGTON ------Jeff Warren SIR HARRY BLAKE ------Dick Lamb Sl LAS SLICK ------Art Austin LIZETTE ------Betty Chambers MARIETTA D'ALTENA ------Joan Sena RUD,OLPHO ...... Robert Gwaltney

SINGING AND DANCING CHORUS Judy Bartlett, Myrna Ems, Jeannie Hotard, Clare Johnson, Judy Rowe, Judy Runyon, Virginia Summers, Jan Munch, Lee Starkey, Dick Stephens, Jerry Taflinger.

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WHO'S WHO (Continued) TED LAWRIE (Etienne Grandet) was applaud- Lawrie will remain at the Grand to play Edvard ed by Grand Theatre audiences for his perform- Grieg in Song of Norway. ances as Rudy Lorraine in Say, Darling and Papa in High Button Shoes in this year's Sum- ART AUSTIN (Silas Slick) has appeared as mer of Musicals. A versatile performer in all Ted Snow in Say, DarIing and Harrison Floy in areas of show business, his television cred- High Button Shoes during this season's Summer its include appearances with Milton Berle of Musicala. Audiences at the Grand last season and Martha Raye. His command of French applauded him in The Pajama Game and Damn has led him from America's most famous vaude- Yankees. A performer much in demand, Mr. ville house, The Palace, to its Parisian equivalent Austin has made frequent television appearances, and from many top U. S. nightclubs to the glam- including Kraft Theatre and The Phil Silvers orous Club Lido in Paris. Trained at the Ameri- Show. On the motion picture screen he was seen can Theatre Wing, Mr. Lawrie has played many with the late Tyrone Powers in The Eddy Du- a role in summer stock, with and without song, chin Story. with Van Heflin in Patterns md frsm Curley in Oklahoma to Sakini in Tuhorrsc with Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling. After of the August Moon. Broadway has seen him at leaving Sullivan last season, Mr. Austin appeared the Music Box Theatre in Ballet Ballads. Mr. at the Brussels Worlds' Fair in The Time of

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WHO'S WHO (Continued) Your Life with Franchot Tone, Sman Stras- atre has been highlighted by appearances with burg, Ann Sheridan and an all-star cast and Burl Ives in The Man Who Came to Dinner and made an appearance on the BBC. Recently he with Burgess Meredith in Tbe Silver Wbistle at has been seen in the successful off-Broadway the Seacliff Summer Theatre in New York. After production of Sbe Shall Have Music. leaving Sullivan last summer, Mr. Gwaltney went to the Sharon Playhouse in Connecticut, BETTY CHAMBERS (Li~ette)has appeared in where he appeared with Ronald Rogers in The every Grand Theatre production to date, as a Vagabond King. During the season in New York dancer, actress and singer. Miss Chambers, who this year, Mr. Gwaltney was seen in the off- is a native of Terre Haute, Indiana, has spent Broadway production of Tbe Saintliwss of Mar- the past year dancing professionally in New York gerie Kempe at the York Theatre. City and with a touring troupe. Her roles here last summer included Poopsie in The Pajama SHIRLEY THAYER (Adah) whose roles this Game, Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun, and summer have included Mama in High Button Topsy in The King and I. Miss Chambers has Sboes and Frankie in Say, Darling. has appeared delighted audiences this season as Gretchen in before the television cameras on such ahows Tbe Student Prince and as the "Lollypop Girl" as Goodyear Theatre and Studio One. At such in the Higb Button Shoes ballet. outstanding summer theatres as Gateway and Camden, she has appeared in South Pacific with ROBERT GWALTNEY (Rudolpho) a favorite Fran Warren as well as Fanmy and New Girl in with Grand Theatre audiences has added to his Town with Joan Blondell. At the Pecalio Play- impressive list of characterizations this summer house she was starred as Eliza Doolittle in Pyg- in such roles as Lutz in The Student Prince, malion. The talented Miss Thayer will be seen Schatsie in Say. Darling, and Sandor in Bells later in the season as Dorothy in Gentlemen Are Ringing. His extensive background in the- Prefer Blondes.

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IT NEVER, NEVER CAN BE LOVE...... Dick and Marietta IF I WERE ANYBODY ELSE BUT ME...... Silas and Lizette 'NEATH THE SOUTHERN MOON ------Adah ITALIAN STREET SONG...... Mretta and Enaemble ACT ONE FINALE------Enti Company ACT II DANCE OF THE MARIONETTES...... Rudolph and Marietta , MARIONETTE BALLET Pierrot ------Dick Stephens Pierette ------Judy Runyon Harlequin ------Jer Taflinger YOU MARRY A MARIONETTE------Etienne

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SIDNEY*EDEN, stage director for Summer of Mu- sicals, was a charter member of the Director's Studio in New York under the noted director and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jose Quintero. He has directed at the Cleveland Playhouse and for the past two years has been a staff director with the Chicago Park District theatre progra&. AS an actor, he has appeared with numerous winter and summer stock companies through- oiit the country, including Xerb Rogers' Music Theatre, Showcase Theatre in Evanstota, the Cleveland Play- house, Cain Park, Chagrin Falis Theatre and The Valiey Playhouse. He has performed in some twenty musical comedies and has sung with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra choruses under Leonard Bernstein and Ra- fael Kubelik. Mr. Eden also inciudes television and radio appearances.

JOEL SCHNEE, choreographer for the Summer of Musicals, comes to Sullivan with an impressive back- ground in the world of the dance. He has studied in NeT York and in Los Angeles with many of the Out- standing dancers of our time, including Martha Gra- ham, Jose Limon, and Doris Humphrey. Born in the East, Mr. Schnee grew up in Los Angeles but returned to the East, where he attended the Julliard School of Music. His choreography has been seen in North Holly- wood and with the Fort Washington Players. Having created dances for a wide range of productions, from "Show Boat" to religious drama, he comes to the Grand, adding his exceptional talents to the Summer of MU- sicala.

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EDDIE McCARTY, musical director for the Sum- mer of Musicals, first appeared at the Grand two sum- mers ago as a member of the chorus. When his wider musical talents were discovered, he become rehearsal pianist. Last season he alternated as pit pianist and performer, and this year assumed the duties of musical director. A native of Decatur, Mr. McCarty has been active in that city with the Little Theatre group and has made numerous appearances on Stations WSOF and WTVP. As a music student, he attended Millikin University where he studied under Miss Elizabeth Traivs.

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FANNY with Paul Flores...... August 25-30 FANNY, the show that saw the last appearance of the late Enzio Pinea, closes the Summer of Musicals season. Gentle yet robust, sentimental yet worldly, the stories of Marcel Pagnol have been blended by S. N. Behrman, Joshua Logan and Harold Rome into what Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times called a "thor- oughly absorbing theatre experience."

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