Ford's Threatre Society Presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War Saga

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968.

FEBRUARY 12, 1968 Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson Honorary Chairman

Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey Honorary Vice Chairman

JOHN BROWN'S BODY

The Opening Night of NRT - AT - FORD'S - THEATRE

THE HONORARY BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Mrs. Oscar S. Cox, Chairman

The Speaker of the House of Representatives & Mrs. McCormack

The Chief Justice of the United States & Mrs. Warren

The Secretary of State & Mrs. Rusk

His Excellency, The Ambassador of Ireland & Mrs. Fay

His Excellency, The Ambassador of Spain and The Marchioness de Merry del Val

His Excellency, The Ambassador of Chile & Mrs. Tomic

Mr. Justice Douglas & Mrs. Douglas

Mr. Justice Brennan & Mrs. Brennan

Mr. Justice White & Mrs. White

Mr. Justice Fortas & Mrs. Fortas

Mr. Justice Marshall & Mrs. Marshall

The Secretary of the Treasury & Mrs. Fowler

The Attorney General & Mrs. Clark

The Postmaster General & Mrs. O'Brien

The Secretary of Interior & Mrs. Udall

The Secretary of Agriculture & Mrs. Freeman

The Secretary of Labor & Mrs. Wirtz

The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare & Mrs. Gardner

The Secretary of Housing & Urban Development & Mrs. Weaver

The Secretary of Transportation & Mrs. Boyd

Senator & Mrs. Birch Evans Bayh, Jr.

Senator & Mrs. Edward William Brooke

Senator & Mrs. Frank Carlson

Senator & Mrs. Everett McKinley Dirksen

Senator & Mrs. Jacob K. Javits

Senator & Mrs. Michael J. Mansfield

Senator & Mrs. Claiborne Pell

Senator & Mrs. Charles Harting Percy

Senator & Mrs. Stuart Symington

Senator & Mrs. Joseph D. Tydings

Senator & Mrs. Abraham A. Ribicoff

Honorable & Mrs. Hale Boggs

Honorable & Mrs. Richard Walker Bolling

Honorable & Mrs. James T. Broyhill

Honorable & Mrs. Joel T. Broyhill

Honorable & Mrs. Gerald R. Ford

Honorable Julia Butler Hansen

Honorable & Mrs. Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr.

Honorable & Mrs. Frank Thompson, Jr.

The Secretary of the Army & Mrs. Resor

The Secretary of the Navy & Mrs. Ignatius

The Secretary of the Air Force & Mrs. Brown

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff & Mrs. Wheeler

The Chief of Staff of the Air Force & Mrs. McConnell

The Chief of Naval Operations & Mrs. Moorer

The Commandant of the Marine Corps & Mrs. Chapman

The Commissioner of the District of Columbia & Mrs. Walter Washington

Honorable & Mrs. George B. Hartzog, Jr.

Honorable & Mrs. Nash Castro

FORD'S THEATRE

BEGINNING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1968

GALA 1ST SEASON AMERICA'S MOST HISTORIC THEATRE

Newly restored by the U.S. Park Service to its appearance in 1865

Ford's Theatre Society

PRESENTS

NRT -AT-FORD'S - THEATRE

MICHAEL DEWELL and FRANCES ANN DOUGHERTY, Producers

THE COMPANY

PAULA BAUERSMITH

ARTHUR BERWICK

SAMUAL BLUE, JR.

PAUL COLLINS

ANNE DRAPER

TODD DREXEL

GEOFF GARLAND

PATRICIA GUINAN

RALSTON HILL

ELLEN HOLLY

PAUL MASSIE

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 JOHN McCURRY

KATHERINE McGRATH

EDITH MEISER

PAUL MILIKIN

WYMAN PENDLETON

TERENCE SCAMMELL

TIMOTHY TAYLOR

TONY THOMAS

G. WOOD

Directors: JACK SYDOW, JAMES D. WARING, G. WOOD

Set Designer WILLIAM PITKIN

Costume Designers

ALVIN COLT

JANE GREENWOOD

Lighting Designer THARON MUSSER

Associate Producer GINA SHIELD

Musical Director LIZA REDFIELD

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S CIVIL WAR SAGA

!!! Newly Devised and Directed for the Stage by Mr. Sydlow!!!

JOHN BROWN'S BODY

Costumes by Mr. Colt

Lighting by Miss Musser

Music by Miss Redfield

Cast in order of appearance

Narrator for the North Mr. HILL

Captain Ball Mr. PENDLETON

Mate Mr. GARLAND

Spiritual singer Mr. WOOD

Narrator for Ellyat Mr. SCAMMELL

Jack Ellyat Mr. COLLINS

Narrator for Wingate and the South Mr. DREXEL

Clay Wingate Mr. MASSIE

Narrator for Brown Mr. PENDLETON

John Brown Mr. WOOD

Narrator for Washington Slaves and Heyward Mr. BLUE

Mr. Brua Mr. MILIKIN

Fontaine Beckham Mr. BERWICK

Narrator for Cudjo Mr. BLUE

Cudjo Mr. McCURRY

Ellyat's Mother Miss BAUERSMITH

Ellyat's Father Mr. HILL

Union General Mr. GARLAND

Narrator for Lincoln Mr. McCURRY

Abraham Lincoln Mr. WOOD

Narrator for Melora Miss GUINAN

Melora Vilas Miss DRAPER

Bailey Mr. MILIKIN

Melora's Father Mr. PENDLETON

Confederate Soldier Mr. BERWICK

Narrator for Aunt Bess Miss HOLLY

Narrator for Mary Lou Wingate Miss BAUERSMITH

Mary Lou Wingate Miss MEISER

Lucy Weatherby Miss McGRATH

Robert E. Lee Mr. WOOD

Messenger Mr. THOMAS

Seward Mr. PENDLETON

Confederate Soldier Mr. TAYLOR

Narrator for Sally Dupre Miss BAUERSMITH

Clark Mr. TAYLOR

Ellis Mr. BERWICK

The narrative begins shortly before John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 and ends just after the close of the Civil War in 1865.

THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION

[???] OPENING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26! AND CONTINUING IN THE REPERTORY [???]

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

William Shakespeare's agreeable jest, brought back due to the popular demand arising from its production at Ford's on Monday, June 6, 1864

[???] OPENING TUESDAY, MARCH 26! AND CONTINUING IN THE REPERTORY [???]

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER or THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT

Oliver Goldsmith's lusty masterpiece, which enjoyed 3 previous productions at Ford's Theatre on Saturday, April 3, 1864, Wednesday, February 8, 1865 and Monday, April 10, 1865.

!!! EVENINGS, MONDAY thru SATURDAY at 8:30!!!

WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY MATINEES at 2:30 PM.

A WELCOME from STEWART L. UDALL Secretary of the Interior

Abraham Lincoln was drama ... every inch of his gangliness, every dimension and fibre of his humanness. A Kentucky log cabin was Act I; Illinois, Act II; Washington was Act III. Ford's Theatre was an Epilogue we remember only for its long and despairing emptiness. In making this a live theatre, almost 103 years after Secretary of War Stanton ordered it closed, the Epilogue is stricken from the drama.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 From this moment on, let this place be known more for its living performances than for history. Hereafter, let us not recall the “moment of high fate” which occurred here; rather let us relive the many treasured moments when—here—President Lincoln found human warmth and laughter.

May we, too, learn to love this place as a living memorial to a man. Here some, unhoping, will find hope; some, grieving, will discover gaiety, and many, weary, will rest.

I believe Mr. Lincoln would have wanted it this way.

THE FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY

TRUSTEES

Kenneth M. Crosby, Treasurer

Hon. Julia Butler Hansen

Frankie Childers Hewitt, President

Thomas Meloy

David Merrick

Ralph G. Newman

Walter Pozen, Secretary

Philip D. Sang

Theodore C. Sorensen

Sointu Syrjala

Robert Wise

David Wolper

Peggy Wood

Hon. Milton R. Young

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 The Ford's Theatre Society has embarked on a unique adventure—to establish a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln. The Society, a private nonprofit organization, will present live theatrical performances in the restored Ford's Theatre.

To keep Ford's as a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln, the Society must raise $1.1 million. With this money, the Society can meet its organizational costs, operate for the first season, prepare presentations for the second season, and organize an effective sustaining gifts program. While the Department of the Interior will maintain the building, the operation of Ford's will require support from individuals, foundations and corporations throughout the country. The Board of Trustees acknowledges with gratitude the initial pace-setting grant of $250,000 by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Tasteful and imaginative use of Ford's Theatre represents an exciting challenge. The Ford's Theatre Society accepts that challenge with enormous pride and with a great sense of gratitude to Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall, whose vision of a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln has made available a national shrine unique in its opportunities. In turn, The Ford's Theatre Society extends an invitation to all Americans to join with it to make live theatre at Ford's a dynamic, enjoyable experience. An investment in Ford's Theatre is not only an investment symbolizing the high quality of American cultural leadership; it is an investment in the living memory of a great American.

FRIENDS OF FORD'S THEATRE

MRS. SMYTH BEAUREGUARD

KENNETH M. CROSBY Co-Chairmen

Mrs. Donald J. Decker, Co-ordinator of Volunteers

Mrs. Frank Otis Blake

Mr. Gerard Boesgaard

Mrs. Josephine Butler

Mrs. William Cafritz

Mrs. David L. Cohn

Mrs. Oscar S. Cox

Mr. William T. Cuddy

Mrs. Timothy Enos

Mrs. John W. Enyart

Mrs. Walter H. Esworthy

Miss Constance Farrand

Mrs. Evelyn G. Freyman

Miss Sallie Hendon

Mrs. Robert Kintner

Mrs. Fritz-Alan Korth

Mrs. Munro Leaf

Mrs. Francis D. Lethbridge

Mrs. Daniel Levitt

Mrs. James P. Maloney

Mrs. William P. McClure

Mrs. Robert R. McCormick

Mrs. Frank Ellis McKenzie

Mrs. Robert Myers

Mrs. R. Kendal Nottingham

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 Mrs. Thomas Noyes

Mrs. Andrew D. Rohlfing

Miss Susan Roberts

Miss Molly Shulman

Mr. Julian H. Singman

Mrs. V. Summerlin Sullivan

Miss Betsy Unangst

Mrs. James C. Van Pelt

Mrs. Walter Pozen

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert White

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Wiggins

Mrs. Gerry Zimmerman

NRT-AT-FORD'S-THEATRE

MICHAEL DEWELL and FRANCES ANN DOUGHERTY, Producers

A Project of the National Repertory Theatre Foundation

Sponsored by the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA)

TRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL REPERTORY THEATRE FOUNDATION

Archie E. Albright, Chairman

Mrs. Agnew H. Bahnson, Jr.

Mrs. Martin L. Cannon, Jr.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 Michael Dewell

Alfred De Liagre, Jr.

Frances Ann Dougherty

Nina Foch

August Heckscher

Norris Houghton

Jerome Lawrence

Lucille Lortel

Frank C. P. McGlinn

George Alan Smith

Michael Straight

Harold Taylor

Samuel Taylor

Mrs. Theodore H. White

Lael T. Wertenbaker

Richard Zeisler

MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL REPERTORY THEATRE FOUNDATION

(List Incomplete)

Mrs. Maxwell Anderson, Stamford

Mr. and Mrs. Armand Bartos, New York City

Mr. Jerome Brody, New York City

Mr. Coleman Burke, New York City

Burlington Industries

Clark Transfer, Inc.

Mrs. Julius W. Cone, Greensboro

Mr. and Mrs. Morse Dell Plain, Philadelphia

Mr. and Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, New York City

Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.

Miss Nina Foch, Hollywood

Dr. and Mrs. H. Frank Forsyth, Winston-Salem

Mr. and Mrs. Michel Fribourg, New York City

Greensboro Jr. League

Hanes Dye and Finishing Company

International Business Machines

Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Lassiter, New York City

Mr. Bart Lytton, Los Angeles

R. H. Macy Co., Inc.

Mr. Harris Masterson, Houston

William Morris Agency

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Mudge, Jr., Dallas

North Carolina National Bank

Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation

Mr. Richard Rodgers, New York City

Mrs. Paul Russell, Chicago

Dr. and Mrs James Seamens, New York City

Sinclair Oil Company

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Smith, Greenwich

Mr. George Alan Smith, New York City

United States Steel Corporation

Mr. and Mrs. Werner B Thiele, Ft. Lauderdale

Mr. Robert Wise, Los Angeles

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Costumes for “John Brown's Body” executed by Grace Costume Co.; Men's boots by A. S. Beck; Scenery built and painted by City Scenic; Lighting equipment by Altman Stage Lighting; Sound Recording by Fine Recording Studio; Wigs by Bob Kelly, Inc.

STAFF FOR THE NATIONAL REPERTORY THEATRE FOUNDATION

Associate Producer Gina Shield

Press Relations Dorathi Bock Pierre

Director of Development George Alan Smith

Assistant to the Producers Carey King

Administrative Coordinator Brooke Lappin

Development Assistant Mary Alice Foster

Production Secretaries Florence Dee, Stephanie Regni

STAFF FOR NRT-AT-FORD'S-THEATRE

Production Supervisor James Frasher

Administrative Organizer Hilmar Sallee

Director of Promotion—Radio and TV Robert W. Jennings

Director, Audience Services Catherine A. Knockey

Production Stage Manager William Armitage

Stage Manager James Haire

Consultant, Community Relations Jeanne C. MacDaniels

Coordinator, Audience Development David Conroy

Production Assistant Mimi Carr

Assistant to Miss Musser Ken Billington

Box Office Treasurer Richard Robison

Assistant Box Office Treasurer Bjorg Wold

Box Office Assistants Carl Thomas Foley, Ricky Green, Susan Hoffman

Secretaries Erla Zwingle, Mary Elizabeth Brown

Subscription Assistants Sindy Keys, Debbie Shoss

NRT-AT-FORD'S wishes to thank Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. which executed Mr. Pitkin's design for the chessboard setting of John Brown's Body. It was dyed and fabricated by Laurelcrest Carpets Division of Laurel Hill, N.C. as a corporate donation to the NRT Foundation.

THE FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY presents NRT-at-Ford's-Theatre

Gala 1st Season—February 12th—May 18th, 1968

In six seasons, the National Repertory Theatre has become a theatrical and educational force in this country. Under the sponsorship of the Congressionally-chartered American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), its sixteen productions of classic and modern plays have been seen by over a million people since 1961.

The founders and producers of the National Repertory Theatre, Michael Dewell and Frances Ann Dougherty, had first joined forces to produce a memorable national tour of Schiller's Mary Stuart in 1959. Their productions prior to the founding of NRT then played in over 200 cities in the United States and Canada.

In the summer of 1961 they were invited to produce the American Festival at the Boston Arts Center, a season which included the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw and a production of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen starring Eva Le Gallienne. This production and Mary Stuart were combined as the first season of the National Repertory Theatre in the fall of 1961, a tour which visited thirty cities and won the Outer Circle Award.

The plays presented on the second tour included Anouilb's Ring Round the Moon, Chekhov's The Seagull and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The latter two won a special Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award when NRT appeared on Broadway in 1964. That season also marked the beginning of a unique theatre-in-residence program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The third NRT season consisted of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Molnar's Liliom and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. The fourth touring season covered 2500 years of drama, from Euripides' The Trojan

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 Women to Sheridan's The Rivals and Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. This also marked the first appointment of the company as theatre-in-residence at the Ohio State University at Columbus.

During the 1966-67 season, on its fifth national tour, NRT presented O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid and Coward's Tonight at 8:30.

The first two plays of the NRT-at-Ford's season, John Brown's Body and Comedy of Errors were prepared last fall in continuing in-residence programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Ohio State University at Columbus; they were then seen in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Chicago.

The National Repertory Theatre has been given grants from sixty different foundations. These include two grants from the National Council on the Arts. This support, together with help from thousands of individuals and from local chapters in cities where the company appears, has made possible a creative continuity unusual in the American theatre. Since its founding NRT has been the only repertory company devoted to touring the United States.

The National Repertory Theatre has now created the nation's newest resident company—NRT-at- Ford's-Theatre. Its touring companies will continue to bring classic repertory to American cities from coast to coast. But at Ford's the National Repertory Theatre has found a special home in a theatre that is uniquely American.

THE COMPANY

PAULA BAUERSMITH, a graduate of Carnegie Tech, toured with the National Repertory Theatre in the 1963-64 season, and appeared on Broadway in Sail Away, Warrior's Husband, Bury the Dead, Twentieth Century, The Lesson and others. She appeared with the Ann Arbor Drama Festival in Member of the Wedding and Tiger At The Gates, and was in several musical comedies. Her TV credits include Kraft, East Side, West Side, Hallmark and others. Last season Miss Bauersmith played four previews in Breakfast at Tiffanys.

ARTHUR BERWICK received his training at the University of Texas and Duke University. He has been a regular member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, appearing in MacBeth, King Lear, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice: and with the intre-city mobile tours of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V. He toured with Joan Fontaine in The Unexpected Guest and has appeared on network television.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 SAMUAL BLUE, JR. has appeared in the intre-city tour of Volpone for the New York Shakespeare Festival. He attended Wayne State University and trained in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and with Lloyd Richards. He appeared in Detroit with the Concept East Theatre in A Raisin in the Sun, Othello, Dutchman and The Zoo Story.

PAUL COLLINS has appeared in all branches of the theatre. On Broadway this season he performed in A Minor Adjustment. Prior to this, he was featured in the Broadway production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun, played the last three months of the Broadway run of Generation and went on the national tour with it. Off-Broadway he appeared in the revue Cambridge Circus and Say Nothing. His motion pictures include Midnight Lace and Strange Bedfellows for Universal-International. I Know Where I'm Going, Look in Any Window and Peter Pan for Disney Studios. He toured Australia and New Zealand in The Diary of Anne Frank. He has appeared in over 30 television shows including leading roles in Combat, Surfside Six, the Jack Benny Show, Target Corruptors, Fair Exchange, True, No Time For Sergeants, Turning Point and on the daytime serial A Time For Us.

ANNE DRAPER joined the National Repertory Theatre for its fall tour after appearing at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, in Magic Prison, a selection of poems and letters of Emily Dickinson, arranged by Archibald MacLeish. She appeared off-Broadway with Martyn Green in Carricknabauna, a musical drawn from the work of the Irish poet Padraic Colum. For her role as Aride in Phedre she was named one of the outstanding actresses of the year. Her roles with the American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Connecticut, included Cordelia in King Lear with Morris Carnovsky, and Hero in Much Ado About Nothing.

TODD DREXEL received his training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and later at the American Theatre Wing in New York. He appeared with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. for four seasons. His many Shakespearian roles include Orsic in Hamlet. Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing, Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, the Prince of Verona in Romeo and Juliet and the Sooth Sayer in Julius Caesar. He has also appeared off-Broadway in Twelfth Night and Othello.

GEOFF GARLAND trained at the Questors Theatre, London, under Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Redgrave. He spent ten years in English Repertory and toured for the British Arts Council, playing Shakespeare and the Classics. He appeared frequently on BBC and commercial television and in five feature films including Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York. In America he won both the Vernon Rice and Obie Awards for his performance in the title role of The Hostage. Co-starring with Julie Harris, he recreated the role for Columbia Records. He toured with The Boy Friend and Beyond the Fringe, and played Broadway with the Burton-Gielgud Hamlet, Entertaining Mr. Sloane and joined the National

PATRICIA GUINAN is a graduate of Temple University, and received her early training and made her stage debut with the Hedgerow Theatre. Miss Guinan has played in a large variety of roles with the National Repertory Theatre, appearing as Miss Neville in She Stoops to Conquer, Louise in Liliom, Irma in The Madwoman of Chaillot, Julie in The Rivals, Louise in The Imaginary Invalid, Beryl in Still Life and Elsie in Fumed Oak. Miss Guinan has also appeared in a series of George Bernard Shaw's plays at the Shaw Festival in Connecticut.

RALSTON HILL appeared in Carousel at Lincoln Center, New York, and in its subsequent tour. He played off-Broadway in the musical version of Boucicault's The Streets of New York, and in the touring companies of Oliver , Martyn Green's Gilbert and Sullivan Company, and Young Abe Lincoln. Mr. Hill has a long list of credits in Summer Theatres and Musical Tents, and has appeared in repertory with the Nikos Psacharoupoulous, Williamstown Theatre in Massachusetts.

ELLEN HOLLY graduated from Hunter College in her native New York. She first appeared on Broadway opposite Barry Sullivan as Staphanie in Too Late the Phalarope. Other Broadway roles include Face of a Hero, Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright and A Hand Is On The Gate, an evening of Negro poetry and song. Off-Broadway she appeared as Rosa in Kermit Bloomgarden's production of Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, Funnyhouse of a Negro and The Owl Answers. During several seasons with the New York Shakespeare Festival she appeared as Desdemona, Iras, the French Princess in Henry V, Kate the Shrew, Titania and Lady Macbeth. She has many co-starring television credits, including The Defenders, The Nurses, Sam Benedict and Dr. Kildare. Miss Holly appeared in the film Take A Giant Step.

PAUL MASSIE has starred on the stage, in major films and with leading Canadian repertory companies. A native of Canada, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Among the London productions in which he was starred are Cat On A Hot Tin Roof opposite Kim Stanley, Genius and the Goddess, Out Of This World and Point of Departure. He was a member of the Bristol Old Vic, and performed at the Edinburgh Festival. He appeared at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, and played many leading roles on CBS-TV. He was a leading player with the Neptune Theatre of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has appeared in many films. For his performance in Orders To Kill he received a British Film Academy Award. Other films include Libel, Sapphire, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and The Rebel. He has a long list of TV credits in England and New York, and has made guest appearances with resident theatres in Portland, Washington and Sarasota.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 JOHN McCURRY was seen in New York in last summer's Mobile Theatre production of Volpone and the previous summer in Macbeth as well as in the original casts of Blues For Mr. Charlie, The Death Of Bessie Smith, The Connection and the last Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow. This season he appeared in the Yale Drama School production of Joseph Heller's We Bombed In New Haven. He played in 29 countries with the 4-year world tour of Porgy And Bess and spent a season with the New Zealand Opera Company. His films include the forthcoming For The Love of Ivy, The Pawnbroker, Across The River and The Last Mile.

KATHERINE McGRATH is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She made her theatre professional debut in Vermont. She was recently seen in The Bacchants at the Lincoln Center Library in New York. She has also appeared on television on The Secret Storm.

EDITH MEISER has an impressive number of distinguished credits, including beside acting, those of producer, writer, director and playwright. She is a graduate of Vassar College, and made her acting debut with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit. Between appearances on Broadway in drama, she found time to become a vaudeville headliner, and appeared in three of the famous Garrick Gaieties. She played for the newly-formed Theatre Guild in Fata Morgana, The Guardsman, He, The Chief Thing and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. She spent two seasons with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., appearing in Murder in the Cathedral, King John and Measure for Measure. She was co-producer for many radio programs. She wrote scripts for the Helen Hayes New Penny Series and the Sherlock Holmes Series and others. Her films credits include Middle of the Night among others.

PAUL MILIKIN appeared with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn. where he played in Julius Caesar. He spent a season with the Charles Playhouse in Boston where he appeared in Galileo and The Inspector General, and he has been with many other resident companies including the Fred Miller Theatre in Milwaukee. In New York he has been seen in The Trial, The Quare Fellow and Under Milk Wood. He appeared at the Spoleto Festival, Italy, in A Moon For The Misbegotten. He has appeared in TV on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Sid Caesar Show, Omnibus, Search for Tomorrow and The Trials of O'Brian. He toured with the National Companies of A Man For All Seasons and J. B.

WYMAN PENDLETON has appeared in New York in Edward Albee's Malcolm, Tiny Alice, The American Dream and Zoo Story. Other plays in New York include The Butter and Egg Man, Gallows Humor, Corruption in the Palace of Justice, The Giant's Dance and The Child Buyer. He toured in A Delicate Balance. He has played leading roles with the Theatre Company of Boston and The Dartmouth Repertory Company. He appeared opposite Madeleine Renaud in Samuel Becket's Oh, Les Beaux

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 Jours under direction of Jean Louis Barrault. He holds a B.A. from Brown University; was a staff member and on the Board of Directors of the Alfred Dixon Speech Center, and a faculty member of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

TERENCE SCAMMELL was a charter member of NRT, touring in its first productions, Elizabeth The Queen and Mary Stuart with Eva Le Gallienne. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Scammell made his American debut at the Hedgerow Theatre. In New York he has been seen in leading roles in The Mousetrap and The Giant's Dance. He was awarded one of only twenty acting grants from the Ford Foundation. He was a featured player with the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., in such productions as Richard II, Henry V, Coriolanus and King Lear. He also appeared as Laertes in Hamlet and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet with Lillian Gish playing the nurse. He also appeared in the title role in Romeo and Juliet on the Esso Repertory Theatre on TV. He was featured in the premier season of The John Fernald Company in Rochester, Michigan.

TIMOTHY TAYLOR holds a B.A. from Miami University in his native Oxford, Ohio. He played Ferdinand in The Tempest with the first international tour of the American Classical Theatre, and added the role of Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors on their second international tour. He appeared at the Monomoy Theatre in Cape Cod during the summer of 1967.

TONY THOMAS is a graduate of Temple University. He appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival and at the Gramercy Arts Theatre. With the Playwrights Company he appeared in A New Life, and in Please Keep Off the Grass with the Broadway Workshop. His TV credits include CBS Repertoire Workshop and the University of the Air.

G. WOOD is NRT's acting veteran. He has played leading roles with the company for five consecutive years. He joined NRT in its second season, and has since played Dr. Dorn in The Seagull, Putnam in The Crucible, Romainville in Ring Around The Moon, Mr. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer, Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler, the Heavenly Magistrate in Liliom, Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, the President in The Madwoman of Chaillot, Poseidon in The Trojan Women, Argon in The Imaginary Invalid, Albert Godby in Still Life and Jamie Cregan in A Touch Of The Poet. Following Mr. Wood's Broadway debut with Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, his theatre credits are vast, and yet he maintains considerable reputation in other areas of showmanship. With his partner, Alice Ghostley, he headlined in Supper Clubs through the 1950s, singing and playing piano. As a writer and performer he's a cornerstone member of the Intimate Revue clan: Julius Monk's Plaza 9, The Shoestring Revue series and many London revues.

THE DIRECTORS

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 JACK SYDOW has staged twelve productions for producers Michael Dewell and Frances Ann Dougherty, and John Brown's Body is his tenth for NRT. His work has included the great classics, contemporary plays, opera and musical comedy. This past season he was represented at Lincoln Center, on Broadway and in Television by Annie Get Your Gun starring Ethel Merman in her original role. He staged The Amorous Flea, A Midsummer Night's Dream which played the outdoor stages in New York City, the national tour of Luv and was artistic director of the Shaw Festival in Connecticut. For Michael Dewell and Frances Ann Dougherty, he directed Benjamin Britten's The Turn Of The Screw, and both national companies of Once Upon A Mattress.

JAMES D. WARING directed the New York premiere of Stephen D, Hugh Leonard's adaptation of Joyce's autobiographical works, presented at the East 74th Street Theatre this past Fall. He had directed and designed the American premiere of the same work at Olney Theatre, where his productions have contributed to twelve seasons. A member of the faculty of Catholic University's Drama Department, his duties extend to directing and designing as well for the University Theatre, where his talents have covered the spectrum of theatre classics. Well known in the Capital City's performing arts circles, Mr. Waring has designed scenery and lighting for productions of the National Ballet Company and served as director, scenery and lighting designer as well as technical director for the Opera Society since its inception.

G. WOOD last season stepped into the ranks of National Repertory Theatre directors with his staging of Noel Coward's Fumed Oak. However, his experience as a director is extensive. He is best known as a director of musical comedies and intimate revues, but he has also staged successful off- Broadway productions of Shakespeare's Richard III and Noel Coward's Hay Fever. Mr. Wood is a native of Arkansas, and attended Carnegie Tech, Vanderbilt and New York Universities, gaining B.F.A. and M.A. degrees.

THE DESIGNERS

ALVIN COLT, whose hundreds of costume designs have been a feature of NRT productions for five seasons, designed the clothes for John Brown's Body. Mr. Colt has recently been represented on Broadway with Henry, Sweet Henry starring Don Ameche and Carol Bruce and Golden Rainbow starring Edyie Gorme and Steve Lawrence. His designs have won for him the Antoinette Perry Award for distinguished achievement in the American Theatre. He created costumes for a long list of Broadway successes including On The Town, Guys and Dolls, Fanny, The Lark, Wildcat, Li'l Abner and Destry Rides Again.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 JANE GREENWOOD designed clothes for The Comedy of Errors. A native of Liverpool, England, she designed for two seasons with the Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare Festival. On Broadway she designed the costumes for The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Hamlet with Richard Burton, Nathan Weinstein and Where's Daddy. For Lincoln Center she created the costumes for Incident At Vichy and Tartuffe —for which she received the Maharam Award for distinguished costume designing. In 1966 Miss Greenwood did the costumes for Twelfth Night at Stratford, Conn. Last year she designed The Marriage Of Figaro for the Metropolitan National Company. Her costumes can be seen on Broadway this season in Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions starring Ingrid Bergman.

THARON MUSSER's early career included lighting the dance works of Jose Limon. Pearl Lang, Doris Humphrey and Paul Taylor. Her first Broadway assignment was Long Day's Journey Into Night and her subsequent credits include J.B., Five Finger Exercise, The Entertainer, Mother Courage, Marathon '88, Any Wednesday, Golden Boy and The Lion In Winter. Last season she was the lighting designer for the Pulitzer Prizer winner A Delicate Balance, the hit musical Mame and Hallelujah, Baby! She has been the lighting designer for the American Shakespeare Theatre since 1957. She devised and coordinated lighting design for the Theatre Guild-American Repertory Company on its State Department tour of Europe and South America and has acted as Theatre Consultant for the New York State Council for the Arts and the U.S. State Department. Miss Musser's Broadway productions this season are The Birthday Party, After The Rain and The Promise.

WILLIAM PITKIN's Broadway designs include the Impossible Years, The Beauty Part, Seidman And Son, Invitation To A March, The Cave Dwellers and A Moon For The Misbegotten. He created the settings for the long-run off-Broadway production The Threepenny Opera. For the Theatre Guild-American Repertory Theatre's State Department tour of Europe, the Near East and South America, he created the sets for The Glass Menagerie. For the American Shakespeare Festival, he designed the sets for The Taming Of The Shrew and both sets and costumes for Henry V. Mr. Pitkin's opera designs include Gentlemen, Be Seated! and Fledermaus for the New York City Opera, and Madame Butterfly and The Marriage Of Figaro for the Opera Society in Washington, D.C. From 1957 to 1967 he was the Design Consultant for the Robert Joffrey Ballet.

THE COMPOSERS

DEAN FULLER has composed background scores of distinction for eight NRT productions: Liliom, Madwoman of Chaillot, Ring Round the Moon, The Rivals, She Stoops to Conquer, The Trojan Women. The Imaginary Invalid and Tonight at 8:30. He was co-author of the musical Once Upon A Mattress which NRT producers Michael Dewell and Frances Ann Dougherty toured nationally with two companies.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 He composed and arranged the ballet music for the national company of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and he has written special material for night club stars, and musical revues on Broadway.

LIZA REDFIELD is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and began her career as a concert pianist. After winning several competitions and scholarships, she appeared as a soloist in Philadelphia and other major cities. Miss Redfield is one of the few women conductors. After conducting over 30 musical comedies, she wielded the baton off-Broadway for the first Shoestring Revue, Miss Emily Adams and Earnest in Love. On Broadway Miss Redfield conducted The Music Man, Sophie and a series of musicals for the City Center Light Opera. She is a well-known conductor in the industrial field and conducted Dick Button's “ Ice Travaganza ” at the New York World's Fair. As a composer, Liza Redfield has created the incidental music for many industrial shows and has worked on vocal arrangements for many productions. She is also known as a music editor, vocal coach and orchestral arranger.

Understudies never substitute for programmed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. UNDERSTUDIES for JOHN BROWN'S BODY: Narr. for North — Mr. Berwick; Captain — Mr. Milikin; Narr. for Ellyat & Jack Ellyat — Mr. Taylor; Narr. for Wingate & South — Mr. Thomas; John Brown — Mr. Pendleton; Narr. for Cudjo — Mr. McCurry; Cudjo — Mr. Blue; Narr. for Lincoln — Mr. Blue; Gen. Grant — Mr. Milikin; Mr. Lincoln — Mr. Pendleton; Narr. for Melora & Melora — Miss McGrath; Bailey — Mr. taylor; Narr. for Aunt Bess — Miss McGrath; Mary Lou — Miss Bauersmith; Sally Dupre — Miss McGrath; Gen. Lee — Mr. Pendleton; Mr. Seward — Mr. Milikin.

The taking of photographs during performances is strictly forbidden.

FRIENDS OF FORD'S THEATRE

Mrs. Smyth Beauregard

Mr. Kenneth M. Crosby Co-Chairmen

John Brown's Body

Mrs. Rose Saul Zalles Chairman

Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Vice Chairman

The Comedy of Errors

She Stoops to Conquer

Mrs. Warren J. Cox

Mrs. Fritz-Alan Korth Co-Chairmen

THE BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Honorable & Mrs. Tyler Abell

Miss Kate Alfriend

Mrs. Agnew Bahnson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Becker

Captain & Mrs. Peter Belin

Mr. & Mrs. Preston Brown, III

Mr. and Mrs. Luis Fernando Browne

Mr. & Mrs. Monroe Bush

Mr. & Mrs. William Cafritz

Mr. & Mrs. Jay Carmody

Honorable & Mrs. Douglass Cater, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Blake Clark

Mrs. David Cohn

Miss Anita Colby

Mrs. Pinyon Cornish

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth McCorkle Crosby

Mr. William T. Cuddy

Colonel & Mrs. Donald J. Decker

Honorable & Mrs. Charles B. Duncan

Honorable John B. Duncan

Mr. & Mrs. Todd Duncan

Miss Nina Foch

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Gabel

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Golodner

Mrs. Polk Guest

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur P. Hendrick

Mr. & Mrs. August Heckscher

Mr. & Mrs. Llewellyn A. Jennings

Dr. & Mrs. Frank Jones

Honorable & Mrs. Robert Kintner

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Lassiter

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Liggett

Mr. & Mrs. Lester W. Lindow

Miss Jane Tunstall Lingo

Mr. & Mrs. William P. McClure

Mr. & Mrs. Donald P. McPherson

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Malarky

Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Marlowe

Mrs. Perle Mesta

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Miller

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Myers

Dr. & Mrs. James M. Nabrit, Jr.

Miss Evelyn Nee

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Joseph Nee, III

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Noyes

Mr. Gerson Nordlinger

Mr. & Mrs. Barrington Parker

Mr. & Mrs. George W. Petticord, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Pipkin

Mr. L. Harvey Poe, Jr.

Honorable & Mrs. John Alexander Pope

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Pozen

Honorable & Mrs. S. Dillon Ripley

Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Sarnoff

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Shapiro

Honorable & Mrs. Jouett Shouse

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lyon Sitton

Mr. & Mrs. John Slocum

Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas P. D. Smyth

Mr. & Mrs. Wells Stabler

Mrs. Potter Stewart

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Straight

Mrs. Madeleine S. Sundlun

Mr. Cuthbert R. Train

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Westerfield

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore H. White

Mr. & Mrs. Guy Wiggins

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney S. Zlotnick

Chicago Founders Group of NRT

New York Committee for NRT

North Carolina Chapter of NRT

Philadelphia Committee for NRT

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 FRIENDS OF FORD'S is a volunteer organization formed to support this country's newest resident repertory company—NRT-at-Ford'sThreatre. Gift NRT at Ford's Theatre Dec. 30, 1968 About Ford's Theatre ...

Washington was a sad and depressed city one hundred and three years ago.

The unrelenting bitterness of the Civil War was doubly felt here—in a city of divided sympathies.

There seemed no laughter or happiness anywhere—except upon the stages of the two major theatres. They were always filled with people seeking a few minutes of release from care and worry.

Among them was the President, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's love of the theatre is legendary. During his term of office it was noted that he attended the theatre no less than forty times, often at Ford's Theatre on Tenth Street.

An unused church had stood on Ford's Theatre site. The enterprising theatre manager, John T. Ford, from Philadelphia and Baltimore, bought it, remodeled the building and called it Ford's Athaneum.

It burned to the ground on Dec. 30, 1862. Mr. Ford immediately laid plans to rebuild. The cornerstone of the new theatre was laid on Feb. 28, 1863, and the new theatre opened in August, 1863, the most beautiful theatre in Washington, and one of the finest in the country.

On April 14, 1865, manager John T. Ford arranged the upper right hand box for the President, his wife and friends to see Laura Keene in “Our American Cousin.” Harry Clay Ford, his younger brother, was in the box office that night and saw the president and his party go up the stairs to the Dress Circle. A short time later the handsome and popular actor, John Wilkes Booth came to the box office and asked if he might go in.

A few minutes later there was a shot.

John T. Ford attempted to reopen the theatre, but public sentiment was against it.

The Federal Government bought the building in 1865 and remodeled it as an office building.

On June 9, 1893 the third floor collapsed, killing twenty-two government workers. Repairs were made and the building was used as a storage place for government publications.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 In 1932 the Oldroyd collection of Lincolniana was moved into the building and in 1933 the building was transferred to the National Park Service, and was the Lincoln Museum until it closed for the restoration.

The first legislation for the restoration of Ford's Theatre was introduced by Senator Milton R. Young of North Dakota, in 1946. In 1960 money was appropriated for a preliminary report on the building.

In 1964 Congress voted two million dollars to be used for the full restoration of the theatre.

The restoration was based upon painstaking research by the National Park Service historians. Mathew Brady photographs were invaluable in making it possible to duplicate all parts of the interior design and furnishings. Sketches, drawings, newspaper articles, official reports, and samples of materials and wallpaper in the Lincoln Museum collections made the precise restoration possible.

One bow to modern efficiency is the stage equipment. A new steel grill and many technical requirements for modern stage production have been installed. The fine hardwood stage, like the original, has a slight slanting rake toward the footlights.

New, modern dressing rooms complete the backstage area. The entire building is air-conditioned.

The one major change in the restoration has been the excavation under the auditorium, and its completion as the Lincoln Museum.

Here, the exhibits interpret various facets of Lincoln's life: items pertaining to the President as a loving family man, as politician, President and Statesman.

The Star Saloon building now is a visitor's area on the first floor, which also houses the box office. The second floor, opening off the Dress Circle, will be used for special programs for school children and other groups. The third floor will house the Lincoln Library of some 2500 volumes, some of which were used by President Lincoln. The Library will be open to the public.

A unique feature of the restoration is that Ford's will again be a living theatre. The Ford's Theatre Society, a non-profit organization is responsible under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service for presentation of plays in the theatre.

At the Society's invitation, the National Repertory Theatre was selected to produce this season's resident acting company, NRT-AT-FORD'S-THEATRE.

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100 The opening tonight of “John Brown's Body”, by Stephen Vincent Benet, marks the first time a theatrical company has presented a full stage production in Ford's Theatre since Laura Keene and her company played here on April 14, 1865.

For additional copies of this historic program write Friends of Ford's Theatre, 1773 Church Street, Washington, D. C. 20009. 208/81

... Ford's Threatre Society presents ... Stephen Vincent Benet's Civil War saga ... John Brown's body. [Wash.] NRT-at-Ford's Theatre, 1968. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20808100