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Summer 8-27-1968 Kiss Me, Kate Little Theatre on the Square
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Guy S. LIMO, Jr. Presents Patricia Morison in "Kiss Me, Kate" August 27-September 1, 1968
---- 6yS. Littb, Jr. PRESENTS PATRICIA MORISON "KISS ME, KATEY Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER Book by SAM and BEW SPEWAK with RONALD ROGERS DEBORAH WOOD JOHN KELSO ROBERT 6WALTNEI' Blll HADDAD RALPH FOODI' JANE MaDONOUGH DlRECTED BY FREDRICK LEE OLSON CHOREOGRAPHED BY DEBORAH WOOD Musical Direction by ROBERT MOREEN PRODUCTION DESIGNED- by ROBERT D. SOULE Costumes by JEAN WEBSTER Production Stage Manager Technical Director BARBARA DILKER LARRY BREEDING I ENTIRE PRODUCTION UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. LlTTLE I CAST Fred Graham ...... RONALD ROGERS Harry Trevor ...... GIL FISHER Lois Lane ...... DEBORAH WOOD Lilli Vanessi ...... PATRICIA MORISON Ralph ...... LARRY BREEDING Hattie ...... JANE McDONOUGH Stage Doorman ...... CARL GOODWIN Paul ...... TOM HASTINGS Bill Calhoun ...... JOHN KELSO First Man ...... ROBERT GWALTNEY Second Man ...... BILL HADDAD Harrison Howell ...... RALPH FOODY "TAMING OF THE SHREW" PLAYERS Bianca (Lois Lane) ...... DEBORAH WOOD I Baptista (Harry Trevor) ...... GIL FISHER Gremio (First Suitor) ...... GREGG STUMP Hortensio (Second Suitor) ...... DARYL WAGNER Lucentio (Bill Calhoun) ...... JOHN KELSO Katherine (Lilli Vanessi) ...... ,...... PATRICIA MORIGON Petruchio (Fred Graham) ...... RONALD ROGERS Dancers: GREGG STUMP, JEANNE REYNOLDS, TOM HASTINGS, MARY LOU WESTERFI ELD, DARYL WAGNER, CYNTHIA STROHACKER, CARL GOOD- WIN, VIRGINIA COOK, SONNY KNIGHT, LYNDA MILLOFF. Chorus: LOIS CARLSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR, MARILYN OLSON, JAMES BAL- DASSARE, JEAN OBRECHT, DAVID HARDIN, THERESA KIMBROUGH, DAVID WESTPHAL, MARTA ANDERSON, GIL FISHER, GUY LITTLE. Extras: PHIL BOATWRIGHT, NICHOLAS EVANS ORCHESTRA: Robert Moreen and Mike Bates, Pianos; Michael Garrett, Percusston; Jack Henry, Bass. "Kiss Me, Kate" presented by Special Arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library AIR.. . SEA . . . RAIL . . . TRAVEL SERVICE Call 365-3316 117 LINCOLN SQUARE-URBANA
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I BEST WISHES TO ALL FOR The Little Theatre on the Square I May 1968 Be a Great Season I RAY PAGE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION STATE OF ILLINOIS !_- -Iwe welcome you soon? Jd P -
DLCATUR, ILLINOIS PHN KELSO. (Bill Calhoun) directed Rqbert Who's Who in the Cast ... orton In PICIDIC.Ann Sothem in Glad Trd~ngs, Mr. and Mrs. Pat O'Brien -in What Dld We Do PARTICIA MORISON (Ulli Vaned), love- Wroar? and next week wlll be directmg Peter ly star of stage ecreen and V is recreating Marshall in The Little Theatre-On The Square's her original ~-dwa role in 'Ri& Me, Kate in next production, No Time For Sergeants. This which she eo-stami opposite Alfred Drake. season Mr. Kelao was featured as Hubert in Miss Morison mads her Broadwa debut in a The Student Prince with Peter Palmer, as Na- Victorian stv1.d omeretta. be Ao BOU-s. than Detroit in Guys and Dolls o poaite Jane Kea and most recently as ~ilfParker in okl.nboma! John starred as Pseudolus in Guy Little's a stu d tbe American suaical theatre. Since touring production of A Fumy Tbing Happened Kate .be has starred on Broadway with Yul Oa Tbe Way To The Fonun and received rave Bryaner in Tbe King And I and has starred in reviews throughout the country. Barhra Strei- Soait Of Norway, The MqWidow. Milk sand and the Smothers Brothers were among Ad Howl. Camelot and K~smet tn theatres hia associates when he appeared at St. Louis across the country. Her non-musiut roles have Crystal Palace. This past winter John appeared included appearances in Bell, Bwk Aad Can at Pheaamt Run Playhouse in The Odd Couple dle. Tbe Pourposter. Separate Tables and Beck- with Dan Dailey and in Vorce Of Tbe Turtle man Place. with Terry Moore. In addition to her work in legitimate thes- tre. Miss Morison has played leadin roles in DEBORAH WOOD (Lois Lane) a native of over twenty-seven films and rp.peareb on many Louisville Kentucky joined the company of major television ahowa includtng Tbe Jache The ~ittlaTheatre-dn The Square this season GIeason Show The Tonight Sbow The Mi40 as lead dancer and assistant to the choreogra~her. Douclas ~bo; Llu Tbeatre. Tbe haft Mauc Last week she danced "Laurey" in the Oqa- Hall Hallmark Hall d Fame. and The Today homa! ballet as well as choreographed the entlre SL&. Miss Morison was with the very first show. US0 troupe to go overseas during World War While in high school Miss Wood was a 11. This troupe included A1 Jolson. Merle Ober- member of the ~anderi;la Minstrels and the on. Frank McHugh and Allan Jenkens. Louisville Civic Ballet Company dikected by Miss Morison has also performed in most Femand Nault now the head director of Les of the leadin supper clubs in the country in- Grander ~alle&Canadiens cludina the &conut Grove, the ~airmont,'the Last year Deborah studied ballet at Hark- Sherman House and has ven concerts at the ness in New York as well as attending Bamard Hollywood ~odland the %wiaohn Stadium. College. Debbie has appeared as a dancer and Before beginning her career on the stage. singer in Tbe Stephen Foster Story in Barda- Miss Morison was an art student and as a tom Kentucky, site of "My Old Kentucky teenattar she very nearly went to Paris to study om;." art. She still ~aintsas a hobby and is DreDar- ing to present-a one-roman show of he< work. ROBERT GWALTNEY (First Man) delighted One day she hopes to retire to Mexico and Sullivan audiences last week in the comic role spend the rest of her life painting, but for the of the Persian eddler Ali Hakim. His long preaent, her po~ulartty ha8 made this an "im- liat of theatricaf cred[ts includes appearance* possible dream." with Bert Lahr in Burleque, Burl Ives in Tbe RONALD ROGERS (Fred Graham) comes to BYsn Wbe Came To Dinner. Edward Everett Sullivan this season after recently ap caring in iforton in Miss Pel1 Is Midng. - oe E. Brown Kiss Me. Kate. Soutb Pacific and dn-can in in Harvey and Margaret Truman in Late Love. Michigan. Prior to these productions, Mr. Rog- era has been touring his one-man concert pro- BILL HADDAD (S~cond.Man) has established p.m, A Cavalcade.of Musical Comedy, at col- htmself 8s a favor~tewtth audiences at The eges and universities and embarks on a third Little Theatre-On The Square. He appeared national tour this fall, covering some fifty earlier this season as Ruder in The Studept cities. Prince, Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Gqys And Ronald established his popularity with Sul- Dolls with fane Kean, Max Detweiler in The livan audiences when he appeared as Tommy in Sound Of MU 'c. the first production Brrgadoon at the old Last season %ill was featured with Will Hut- Grand Theatre twe1;e years a 6. Since then chins in Sweet Cbarity and as Luther Billis he haa been featured in ~ouderfulTown GU$ with Betty Ann Grove in Soutb Paclfic. And Dolls, Show Bqt, Kismet, B!W& G1r1 w~th Marlraret Ham~lton and last season's RALPH FOODY (Harrison) returned to The South Pac~fic. He is extremely popular as a Little Theatre-On The Square after a year's singer in En~landwhere he was voted "Voice absence to a pear as Lt. Brannigan in Guys of the Year' by the Gramophone Record Re- And Dolls. dr. Foody will be remembered for view after an extended tour there. Ronald co- such roles as Ben in The World of S~ieWow starred with Dorothy Lamour in DuBarry Wm with Robert Reed, the Captatn in M~otcrRob- A Lady on tour and has been seen in New York erts with Tab Hunter, as Johnny in Lullaby iq The Rules Of The Game and Livid The with Rosemary Prinz and as Dr. Lyman in Life. Bus Stop with Ed Bymes. SYNOPSIS OF SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I Scene 1. Stage of Ford Theatre. Baltimore Awtber Op'nid. Aaotber Sbow ...... Hattie and Chorus Scene 2. Corridor Back Sta e) by can6 YOU ~e%ave...... ~ois Lane Scene 3. The Dressing Rooms of Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi Wderbar ...... Lilli and Fred So In Lwe ...... Lilli Scene 4. Padua Padua Street Parade ...... Acrobats We Open in Venice ...... Lilli. Fred. Lois ad Bill Scene 5. Street -Scene Padua Tom Dick 'or Harry ...... Bianca, Lucentio Gremio and Hortensio ROE; ~anc; ...... ~uc;ntio, Gremio Hortensio I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua ...... ~etruchi'oand Boys I Hate Mea ...... Katherjne Were Thine Tbat Special Face ...... Petruchio and Cnrls Scene 6. Backstage-Before the Backstage Curtain Scene 1. Fred and Lilli's Dressing Rooms Scene 8. Before- the Curtain We Sing of Love ...... Bianca, Lucentia and Chorua Scene 9. Padua Church Tarantella ...... Dancers Finale-Kiss Me. Kate .... :...... Entire Company (MUSX~CJINumberr Contiaucd on Back Cwer) s+. 3.8 sept. 10-15 Sept. 17-29 RESERVE TICKETS NOW JACK FOR ALL
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