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OFFICERS Outdoor entertainment comparable to Starlight Musicals first appeared in Indianapolis in the J. M. BLOCH summer of 1945 when a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was produced in the Garfield Park Amphi­ Chairman of the Board theatre. The enterprise was so well received that another operetta was given there the following Li. G. GORDNER President summer. In 1947 a series of both light opera and grand opera was produced at the Butler Bowl JOHN I. KAUTZ in connection with the Indianapolis Centennial celebration. This was followed by more light opera First Vice-President in the summer of 1948 at Butler Bowl. NOBLE L. BIDDINGER Second Vice-President ALAN C. BOYD Secretary In 1950 and 1951 Starlight Musicals moved to the Indiana State Fairgrounds in an effort to lower EVAN B. WALKER production costs, however after that season our board of directors decided that open air entertain­ Treasurer ment in Indianapolis would not be feasible until there was an amphitheatre available, similar to those in other communities throughout the country, designed specifically for such productions. DIRECTORS Noble L. Biddinger J. M. Bloch We dreamed of a permanent location with a stage big enough for productions with a large chorus William H. Book Alan C. Boyd and ballet; adequate dressing rooms; shower and toilet facilities; costume and property storage Cecil M. Byrne space; workshop space for scenery building; an area for the audiences with proper sight lines and Joseph E. Cain acoustical equipment; comfortable seats; a sheltered foyer and sufficient and convenient parking Monsignor Henry F. Dugan spaces. J. R. Fenstermaker Roger Fleming Charles Gisler James Gloin We wish it were possible to list here the names of all of our patrons, donors, guarantors, indi­ Mrs. J. A. Goodman viduals and organizations, both public and private, who have encouraged us throughout the years Morris Goodman and who have shared this dream with us. It remained, however, for the Board of Park Commis­ L. G. Gordner sioners, under Mayor Alex M. Clark, acting for all our citizens, to cause the erection of the Hilton Harry S. Hanna Charles Hedley U. Brown Theatron, which includes all of the facilities of which we dreamed. Henry Holt, Sr. John I. Kautz Claude Koontz Encouraged and challenged by the creation of the Theatron, which is available for our use under George Kuhn a lease with nominal rental, our friends were told this story and over $50,000.00 was subscribed W. O. Longsworth Murray Morris for our operating fund, this year. We started in January to assemble the finest production staff Kurt F. Pantzer possible and selected a list of attractions from the best in musical opera, which we are proud to H. T. Pritchard present for your enjoyment this summer. With your continued enthusiasm and support we hope and Melvin T. Ross believe that from now on Indianapolis can have Starlight Musicals in the Theatron every summer. William J. Schumacher Harry V. Wade Evan B. Walker A. E. Wilhoite Very truly yours, LeRoy George Gordner President

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Page two HILTON U. BROWN THEATRON (BUTLER BOWL) BUTLER UNIVERSITY, INDIANAPOLIS Operated by INDIANAPOLIS THEATRE ASSOCIATION, INC. OFFICERS 1955

J. M, BLOCH L. G. GORDNER JOHN I. KAUTZ Chairman of the Board President First Vice President

NOBLE L. BIDDINGER ALAN C. BOYD EVAN B. WALKER Second Vice President Secretary Treasurer DIRECTORS Noble L. Biddinger Monsignor Henry F. Dugan Morris Goodman Claude Koontz Melvin T. Ross J. M. Bloch J. R. Fenstermaker L. G. Gordner George Kuhn William J. Schumacher William H. Book Roger Fleming Harry S. Hanna W. O. Longsworth Harry V. Wade Alan C Boyd Charles Gisler Charles Hedley Murray Morris Evan B. Walker Cecil M. Byrne James Gloin Henry Holt, Sr. Kurt F. Pantzer A. E. Wilhoite Joseph E. Cain Mrs. J. A. Goodman John I. Kautz H. T. Pritchard Address All Correspondence to— Starlight Musicals—Coliseum—Indiana State Fairgrounds—Indianapolis

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Melvin T. Ross guides the executive affairs of the Star­ light Musicals in his position as General Manager

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Starlight Musicals was fortunate indeed, to obtain to head its Pro­ duction Staff as Producer-Director, Mr. Robert E. Perry, a man whose experience and know-how would be difficult to equal in the Musical Stage field. Mr. Perry is a native of Boston, Mass., although New York City has been his headquarters for many years. He has directed several New York productions, was Production Director of the Cleveland 500 Operettas, and in 1954 was guest director for three productions at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. For four seasons he was Director of the famous Municipal Opera in St. Louis, Mo. Until a throat operation halted a singing career, Mr. Perry was in Musicals in New York as leading tenor, and had done extensive church and oratorio work. He can point with pride to a fruitful background as a singer, actor, director, producer and manager. Married to the former Mariorie Peggs, also an actress, he is the father of two daughters—Elaine, 4V2 years, and Virginia, all of three months.

ROBERT E. PERRY

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Starlight Musicals Music Director William Parson began a colorful career in a most auspicious manner, and at quite an early age. While a youth of 16 he won the coveted Gold Medal Award at the New York College of Music. His forte was the piano. He followed this with several years of concertizing, then became an assistant to the late Walter Dam- rosch. While with Mr. Damrosch he launched a conductorial career and became associated with Margaret Anglin, handling her performances of "Electra." A chance meeting in San Francisco with famed violinist- conductor Max Bendix led to an association with Mr. Bendix in St. Louis at the St. Louis Municipal Opera Co. He has since conducted most of the more important light operas and musical comedies in the realm of show business. Mr. Parson is the father of a daughter, and especially proud of his three-year-old granddaughter who, he claims, can sing the theme of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto.

WILLIAM PARSON

Page six MUSICALS STAFF

R. O. Brooks, Assistant Director and General Stage Manager, has served in similar capacity for many years in the theater. Six seasons with the St. Louis Municipal Opera as well as Louisville and Cleve­ land seasons of light opera. Regarded by theater people as one of the best in the business, he has been stage manager for many outstand­ ing Broadway productions including Billy Rose's "Seven Lively Arts" with Bea Lillie and Bert Lahr, the George M. Cohan hit "I'd Rather Be Right" and the last production on Broadway of "The Chocolate Soldier." He also served with distinction as Stage Manager of the New Opera Co. in New York City, whose nine productions were acclaimed for great artistic achievements in presenting new opera to the American public. Of late he has been a Supervisor in the Produc­ tion Department of the NBC Television network.

R. O. BROOKS • • •

Stage Manager Joseph Chomyn hails from Rochester, New York, and has run the gamut in theater production assignments. The versatile Mr. Chomyn also has had his share of acting. He is a graduate of Drake University and two and a half years at the Yale Department of Drama. He comes to Starlight Musicals from St. Louis, where he was also stage manager and light designer for Producer-director Robert Perry at the Empress Playhouse. He has been director for and personal stage man­ ager to Margaret O'Brien during her tour of "Peg O' My Heart." He was also assistant director and stage manager at the Palm Beach Play­ house, Palm Beach, Fla. His acting roles have found him teamed with Kim Hunter, , Burgess Meredith, Charlton Heston, and Veronica Lake.

JOSEPH CHOMYN

Page seven STAFF (Continued)

Your Starlight Musicals choreographer has run the gamut in a dancing career punctuated with accomplishments. Marguerite de Anguera, who was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Montevideo, Uraguay, is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University. She studied modern dance under Hanya Holm, joining her concert group for four years. In the field of ballet she has been associated with such names as Doris Humphry, Mikhail Mordkin, Anatol Vilvak, Madam Elizabeth Anderson, and Ella Daganova. Miss de Anguera also studied acting under Marie Ouspenskaya, Frank Lee Short, and Percival Vivian. She has toured the conti­ nent extensively, both as a performer and in production roles. She inaugurated the Department of Ballet at Indiana University's School of Music, and currently is an owner-instructor at the Indian­ apolis Academy of Theater Arts.

MARGUERITE de ANGUERA • • •

Choral Director Edwin Biltcliffe is a veteran of three previous Starlight Musicals seasons. Midwest music devotees know him also as pianist for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Associate Director of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. Mr. Biltcliffe was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College. Early in his career he studied piano with the eminent composer Arthur Foote. He soon became a leading accompanist throughout New . In New York he accompanied such Metropolitan Opera stars as Eleanor Steber, Jan Peerce, Helen Olheim and John Carter. He played four seasons as the American pianist with the Jooss European Ballet Company, and was associated for two years with conductor Arthur Fiedler. Mr. Bilt­ cliffe came to Indianapolis 11 years ago at the request of Indianapolis Symphony conductor Fabien Sevitzky.

EDWIN BILTCLIFFE

Page eight Hilton U. Brown Butler Bowl Theatron STARLIGHT MUSICALS Indianapolis, Indiana July 19 through July 24

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The play opens while a fraternity dance is in prog­ Aunt Minnie dies, and because she had failed to ress at Haverhill College in late Spring. John Kent, sign her will the famous dressmaking establishment the star fullback, has invited his fiancee, Sophie Teale, goes to John Kent. He is thoroughly frightened at one of the town's debutantes. John has been induced being forced to manage the business alone, and be­ to visit Paris by his Aunt Minnie, who has resided seeches Stephanie to remain on as his partner. John there for many years, and occupies the position of is in an uncomfortable position—he is gradually fall­ the most successful modiste of the present day. Sophie ing in love with the Russian girl, and also remains has made arrangements to sail on the same boat ac­ fascinated by Sophie. Ladislaw, the Russian noble­ companied by her socially-conscious mother, who does man, who acts as doorman at Roberta's, causes John not greatly approve of Sophie's engagement to John. some jealous moments. John does not know that in Huckleberry Haines, John's classmate and pal, has reality Stephanie and Ladislaw are cousins. booked his undergraduate orchestra to play in Paris, It is now September. Stephanie and John have not and intends to sail later on. Sophie is disappointed been getting along too smoothly as partners because by John's lack of sophistication and continually finds Stephanie is jealous of Sophie and John resents Ladis- fault with him. When John unfortunately criticizes her law's presence in the shop. Huck suggests to Stephanie clothes, a violent argument follows, and Sophie breaks that the best way to break up John's romance with off the engagement, John making the decision to post­ Sophie is to let her buy a dress that John has ordered pone his trip and sail later with Huck Haines' orches­ out of the Fall line because he doesn't like it, but that tra to Paris. Sophie has taken a fancy to. Stephanie cleverly ac­ In Paris, the first scene takes place in Mme. Ro­ complishes this. John, refusing to attend the annual berta's private office. Aunt Minnie (whose trade name Roberta employees' party to be held that night, meets is Roberta) reminisces with Lord Henry, her closest Sophie at the American bar. An argument follows friend, and the two look back through the years when when John sees that Sophie is wearing the gown he so her highly publicized gay life exiled her from America, definitely dislikes. Sophie ridicules his taste in wom­ and made her an outcast from her straight-laced en's clothes, and their engagement is again broken. family. John then learns that Stephanie's love for him from Huck. Stephanie has planned to attend the company During her recent visit to New York, she realized party with Ladislaw, and when John rushes back to that her past indiscretions had not been forgiven by the store for her, she tells him about her previous plan her relatives, with the exception of her nephew, John to go with Ladislaw, and John departs angrily. After Kent, the only relation who showed any affection for this display of jealousy, Stephanie for the first time this lonely old woman. She became deeply fond of knows that John loves her. her enormous, ungainly nephew, concluding she would rather leave a share of her famous establish­ Stephanie goes to the party. John joins her at her ment and wealth to him than all to Stephanie, the table, and she confides to him that she has no intention young Russian noblewoman who has managed the of marrying her cousin, but only him, her American business for her. partner.

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Page fifteen BITS ABOUT

No newcomer to Indianapolis theater-goers, Sibyl Bowan is one of the real "professionals" of show business. For Starlight Musicals she will play the temperamental Madame Sharwenka, a role she has played to perfection many times before. Miss Bowan has risen from a rather inauspicious beginning in the Professional Children's School, on up through the chorus, specialty dancing and dramatic acting, and now is at her zenith. She has a wide repertoire of comedy and impersona­ tions, and possesses the rare talent of being equally successful in such widely divergent places as the small, intimate Mayfair Hotel, London, or the St. Louis Municipal Opera, which seats 12,000 persons.

SIRYL ROWAN t t • •¥• *

Handsome, talented Robert Goss, who will lend his baritone voice to the role of John Kent in "Roberta," was born in the Green Moun­ tains of Vermont, the son of a country doctor. He attended the University of Vermont, where he excelled in music as well as athletics. A decision to pursue a musical career led him to the famed Julliard School in New York. His formal schooling completed, he decided to specialize in opera in English. He has sung featured parts in 31 different operas as well as many operettas and musicals. Among his most important appearances is the baritone lead in the Metropolitan Opera Assn.'s production of "Fledermaus." He was also the leading man in the touring company of "Wonderful Town."

RORERT GOSS Page sixteen THE CAST

Lee Davis, who will portray Haines in "Roberta," is a native of Columbus, Ohio. He started his theatrical career as a youth, and appeared in many stock companies throughout the midwest before New York beckoned. His light musical background is extensive, and he has appeared in vaudeville, hotels, and leading supper clubs through­ out the nation, including New York's Palace Theater. His Broadway musicals include Earl Carroll's Vanities and Follow the Girls. For the past three seasons he was the featured comedian in the Music Circus, Lambertville, N. J.; the Neptune Theater, Asbury Park, N. J.; and at the Music Circus in , Fla.

LEE DAVIS

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Tony Starman, dancing resident juvenile, really has his work cut out for him this season in Starlight Musicals. The youthful, talented dancer will have important assignments in all six productions. Tony began his professional career doing song-and-dance acts with a female partner in Texas night clubs. He gained valuable experience doing minor speak­ ing parts, dance routines, and ensemble work in the Starlight Operetta Co. of Dallas in 1945, 1946, and 1947. In 1945 he also joined the Corps de Ballet of the New York City Opera Co. for their fall season. Besides extensive television work, Tony has played solo engagements at Radio City Music Hall. He has been featured in singing and dancing roles in "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun." He comes to Indianapolis from a successful run as a specialty dancer in "Wizard of Oz" at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Co.

TONY STARMAN Page seventeen BITS ABOUT THE CAST (Continued)

Muriel O'Malley will be playing one of her favorite roles when she appears as Aunt Minnie in "Roberta." Her portrayal of the kindly, old—but at times caustic—courtouriere has endeared her to the hearts of theater devotees the world over. Born in Australia, she did all her early studying there, and later attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is a competent pianist as well as a singing actress. Miss O'Malley has toured the world over, and sung in Australia, New Zea­ land, South Africa, the Far East, England, and America. Last season's summer stock assignments took her to Lambertville, N. J., St. Louis, and Kansas City. Her hobbies are painting in oils and water colors, fine needlework, and making figurines.

MURIEL O'MALLEY

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Robert S. Watts, who plays Ladislaw in Starlight Musicals' pre­ sentation of "Roberta," was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, New York. He attended Seton Hall College, and served two and a half years in the Pacific with the infantry during World War II. Mr. Watts has done extensive opera and concert work in and around New York City. He has also sung principal roles with the St. Louis Municipal Opera Co., Paper Mill Playhouse, Washington Festival, and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Co. Recently he appeared on Broadway in Gian Carlo Menotti's "Saint of Bleeker Street." He scores equally well in the lighter vein of television and night club work, and recently was a winner of the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show.

ROBERT S. WATTS

Page eighteen BITS ABOUT THE CAST (Continued)

Gordon Dilworth is a baritone with an impressive background in operatic work. Shortly after graduating from New York's famed Juilliard School of Music, he sang the part of Klingsor in the RCA recording of Parsifal which featured Flagstad and Melchior. Outstanding Broadway offerings include "The Merry Widow" with Kiepura, "Medium and the Telephone," and "Paint Your Wagon." As a leading baritone, he has sung in "Pagliacci," "Traviata," "Gypsy Baron," "Pique Dame," and "Fair of Sorschinsk," with the New York City Center and New Opera Companies. Gordon will be spending a busy summer in Indianapolis for he is signed for important roles in "Roberta" and "Chocolate Soldier" as well as Capt. Brackett in "South Pacific."

GORDON DILWORTH • • •

Anita Carr bids fair to become one of musical comedy's most outstanding performers. This young, talented lass is a resident ingenue soprano with Starlight Musicals this year and will be seen first as Lieut. Genevieve in "South Pacific." At 24, she boasts an impressive back­ ground of both study and performances. She makes her home in New York and has done extensive work in the many summer theaters along the Eastern seaboard. Last year she was a resident member of the Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis, Mass., and appeared in eight musicals, including "Student Prince," "Oklahoma," "Bittersweet," and "High Button Shoes." Before coming to Indianapolis, Anita played Lieut. Genevieve at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey.

ANITA CARR

Page nineteen Next Week STARLIGHT July 26-31 ^eautifrtl TflcteCc . . . . 0myeott&

Operetta in 3 Acts By RUDOLPH BERNAUR AND LEOPOLD JACOBSON English Version By STANISLAUS STANGE Music By OSCAR STRAUS Presented By Arrangement with Hans Bartsch, New York, N. Y.

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ARTHUR MAXWELL RORERT WATTS MURIEL O'MALLEY ANITA CARR 'Falling In Love" — "My Hero

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LET'S BEGIN THE TOUCH OF YOUR HAND Now that you've got her goin', what you gonna do, When you shall see flowers that lie on the plain. Is it up to her or is it up to you ? Lying there, sighing there for one touch of rain. What kind of game is this you've begun—was it done just Then you may borrow, some glimpse of sorrow, for fun ? And you'll understand—How I long for the touch of your You have necked, till you're wrecked—won't you tell her hand. what to expect? Is this to be a case of fall, and glad you fell. Kiss and never tell, folly and farewell ? R Which is it goin' to be—Love or gin—Wife or sin— Big Boy begin. SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES They asked me how I knew my true love was true. DEVASTATING O I of course replied, "Something here inside, cannot be denied." You're devastating, and so far above me. They said, "Someday you'll find all who love are blind," To think of mating, I never could dare. When your heart's on fire, you must realize Smoke gets You couldn't ever be lowly and love me, in your eyes. You're much too clever to care how I care. B You were destined for purple-hued throne rooms, You were fashioned |or princes to see. Still I keep dreaming of you in my own rooms, THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT And there you whisper, "I love you," to me. E Some day when I'm awf'ly low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you LOVELY TO LOOK AT And the way you look tonight. Lovely to look at, delightful to know and heaven to kiss, R Oh, but you're lovely with your smile so warm A combination like this—is quite my most impossible scheme And your cheek so soft, There is nothing for me but to love come true, you, Just the way you look tonight. Imagine finding a dream like you ? You're lovely to look at, it's thrilling to hold you terribly tight. T For we're together, the moon is new, and oh ! it's lovely to look at you tonight. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE You are the promised kiss of springtime That makes the lonely winter seem long. YESTERDAYS A You are the breathless hush of evening Yesterdays, Yesterdays. Days I knew as happy, sweet That trembles on the brink of a lovely song. sequester'd days. You are the angel glow—that lights a star, Olden days, golden days. Days of mad romance in love, The dearest things I know—are what you are. Then gay youth was mine, Truth was mine, joyous free and flaming life forsooth was mine. Some day my happy arms will hold you, Sad am I, Glad am I, For today I'm dreaming of And some day I'll know that moment divine, Yesterdays ! When all the things you are, are mine.

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