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THEATRE THEATRE MAGAZINE MAR. 12-18, 1967

Jt'itr, llchlxini lli'/lj, H c ih t l.vicht tun! Juiin Sci-.uck THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST" NEXT PRODUCTION! THE BUFFALO STUDIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LUKAS FOSS Conductor - Music Director Presents THE LESSON

by Eugene Ionesco

and Sunday, M nrch 19— 2:30 PM Tuesday, M arch 21— 8.30 PM Kleinhans Music Halt by

I.L'K.AS FOSS, conductor

T()N (J U, MAN, j>i:m’>>t Directed by Li:vi:iltri:1 A w a rd W inn er Allan Leicht

MARCH 30-APRIL 22

Program

Billy the Kid ...... Copland Cuilci.-rti) ...... Ravi:! April 27-May 20 Sea Piece with Birds Thomson GEORGE & IRA La Mer ...... Debussy GERSHWIN'S Tickets, for all performances musical comedy of $4.80, $4.20, $3.60, $2.85

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I IT.N DA N CI:! ;i I S I u d i u Kosary Hill College: Conrad Scliuck A AHF.NA Theatre productions oi Bulfaios Slate University College; •has been up by 23 per cent this year Mrs. Reginald Wheeler, drama lea- but capita] Kind-giving must con­ ciier at LImwoori Franklin School- tinue so that the normal operating Allan Leiehl, production co-ordina- deficits ot a non-profit institution tor for the Studio Arena and acting can be underwritten, bearing in director of the Studio Arena Theatre mind that the theatre serves a wide School, and Lewis Sliupe, member of audience in the Greater Buffalo ilic State University of .New York area and beyond. W ith this in mind, and Studio Arena School faculties a special Studio AKKNA iund drlvi-.1 . . . Closing production of the Studio has been organized with two of Arena Theatre season will be a Buffalo’s leading businessmen, Ira coupling of. Anouilh’s Antigone and C. Koss, -president of the Cornell Fugene Ionesco's Tin: Lesson. Mar. Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., ;md 30-April 22 . . . Fund-raising, or Claude Shuchtcr. -president o! Manu­ fun-raising, or 'both, one of the most facturers and Traders Trust, as co- pleasant ways of; arranging it is to chairman . . . Kathy King, a .sopho­ organize a Studio Arena Theatre more from (.rover Cleveland High, party. Croup sales director .Marion and Sarah Morion, a South Park Copeland has all the answers at High sophomore, -won tin: onlv l\vo S02o . . . And one of the most pleas­ scholarships awarded this year by ant spots in town to meet while tee­ the Women’s Committee of the; Stu­ ing up the fund or fun-raising is the dio AKF.NA Theatre in honor of: Studio Arena's Stage J.,eii Lounge, Jane Keeler. Sounder of the Studio just ofi the lobby arid open lor Theatre School and Director lilmeri- before-during-and-after refreshmen (: t'us ot the theatre. Miss King won and conversational pauses . . . Other the top prize lor her -presentation sound suggestions ‘in the same vein oi excerpts Iroin Jean Anouilh's Tin; — ..Mister Agio’s, The Koundtable. Lark, while Miss Moden won her Cedars ol Lebanon, David’s Table, scholarship lor-her recitation ol the the Staller Hilton, The Downtowner, Iloberl Nathan ..poem, Dunkirk. I’he Cloister, Old .Spain, Swiss Judges were Sister Mary Francis of Chalet' and Kuo Franklin West. u

Scene Theatre Magazine Vol 4, ]\'o. 28 Alar. 12-18, 1967 Publisher Editor and Art Director David B. Crombie Stan Helleur

Scene Theatre .Magazine is published weekly by Scene Publications Limited. (Buffalo Address: 681 M ain St. Toronto Address: 2 Carlton St. Printed in Canada. Subscription Rate. $5.00 per year. r linjjorlmica Oj Being Euniu.si, 'The 1. current production at. bulialo’s Studio AllhlNA Theatre, is Oscar NVildc.s most popular play. First per iormed at tin: St'. James Theatre in importance London in IS95, it lias been a perennial favorite ever since. In its original production it' was pro­ nounced one ol the most' sparkling Of comedies ol' the IS.JO’s. In the highly improbable plot, Jack Worthing invents an imaginary Being younger brother, Ernest, who de­ mands at tent ion whenever Jack needs a convenient alibi or to escape Earnest" lor a holiday, Gecily, Jack's ward, becomes interested in this brother, but' the lie gets out ol hand when Oscar Wilde’s classic Algernon Moncriell. Jack's friend, introduces himsell t'o (.'ecily as comedy now playing I'll'nest. Jack tells Algernon Ik-: is going to propose to Gwendolyn. at Buffalo’s Algernon’s cousin, who knows Jack as Ernest. Gwendolyn says she will Studio ARENA Theatre marry Jack emphasizing' her great loudness lor the name ‘‘Ernest'' and her feeling that she was fated to Ji’iii: Hchhmn ULiwr Kcu marry a man by that name. Lady Mracknell, Gwendolyn's mother, does not consent to the marriage, due to Jack's dubious paternity. In the meantime, Gceily and Algernon, known to her as Ernest, have become engaged, (..’ecily having a predilection tor the precious name. It obviously follows that both girls think they are engaged to tin: same man, but identities are finally established and all is lorgiven. Lady Brackncll discovers that Jack really is Algernon's lost: brother Ernest, and the curtain comers down on a happy and hilarious ending. Gonsidered by many to be one of the finest comedies of the English language, the opening performance Aina Niemela, Jean Hebborn and was praised by all the notable Elaine Kerr, who have appeared critics of the day. The play con­ consistently In Studio AKENA pro­ tinued to please and indeed delight ductions this season, portray, re­ the upper classes, who one must spectively, Cecily, Lady Bracknell admit, were the butt of W ilde’s pen. and Gwendolyn. The leading male Indeed every major critic between roles of Jack and Algy are being .! 895 and the present day, from played by John Schuc-k and Alan E. Montague to Agate, from Max Zampese. Schuck appeared as Jean- Beerbohm to MacCarthy, have vied Paul Marat in the sell-out produc­ with each other in praise of this tion of Marat, de Sade, which ended masterpiece. its run at the Studio ARENA, Satur­ The classic comedy is under the day, February 25. direction of Tom Gruenewald, whose Others in the Earnest cast are: (.-xpert hand helped to make After Renee Leicht, Miss Prism; Max the Vail the surprise hit of the cur­ Gulack, Chauscible; Kenneth Mc­ rent season. Gruenewald scored at Millan, Lane; and Gerald Richards. t lie beginning of the theatrical sea­ Merriman. Gulack portrayed the son as the director of the off-Broad­ Marquis tie Sade, while Richards way hit in New York. Man n:ith scored a success as Ouentin, I lie a Load of Mischief. central figure in After the Vail.

Notes on Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was an Irishman dramatized lor tin- stage and the who, upon his arrival in London as movies. Following the novel, he a young man, created quite a sensa­ began to write plays which reflected tion with his flamboyant posturing his true brilliance and wit. and his precious wit. Born in D ub­ The Importance of Being Earnest. lin, he attended Trinity College was Oscar W ilde’s last play. Shortly there and studied later at Oxford in after its opening, his world came Magdalen College. His academic crashing down around him. The career was brilliant, and he became ugly court trial between W ilde and widely known for 'his leadership ol the Marquis of Queensberrv brought a group of aesthetes who believed about W ilde’s imprisonment. Five in “Art for Art’s Sake.” years after the play first opened Carrying his flare for performance Wilde died in France at the age oi and his somewhat startling ideas 46. beyond the shores of: the British Though financially bankrupt at Isles, Wilde came to the United the time o f ’his death he left behind States in 1882 where he engaged in a highly successful lecture tour. some interesting essays, a lew good W ilde’s first literary effort was short stories, several plays and one his novel, The Picture of Dorian brilliant farce— The Importance of ( ’■rut/ (1891) which has been Being Earnest. o National Theatre Conference Regional authorities from across U.S. convening here April 20-21

N Api'il 20 -and 21, .regional aging Director and one of the O theatre authorities from all over founders of the famed Tyrone die country will convene in Buffalo, Guthrie Theatre of Minneapolis and under the-auspices of the Studio president of the National League Arena Theatre, for a National Con­ of Regional Theatres, Another ference. First of its type, the con­ uniquely qualified conferee will be ference will be sponsored by the Alan Schneider who has staged all Western New York Foundation, of Edward Albee’s plays as well as whose president, Welles V. Moot, other Broadway and off-Broadwav Jr.. will serve as chairman. Subject successes. Mr. Schneider is Artistic of: the conference is “The Regional Director of the Ithaca Festival Theatre Trustee: Questions of Role Theatre, due to open in 1968. and Responsibility”. In announcing Other regional Theatre notables the conference, Neal Du Brock, enlisted to take part in the con­ Lxi.vutive Director of the Studio ference include William H. Mush- Arena Theatre, outlined its purpose: nell, Jr., Managing Director, and Recognizing the dependency of Edith Markson, Vice-President of liegional Theatre on the Trustee, the American Conservatory Theatre and. the questions of role and of San Francisco; George Touliatos, responsibility among the trustee, Artistic Director and Francis Gass- theatre management and the com­ ner, board member of the Front munity, The Western New York Street Theatre in Memphis, Ten­ I'oundaMon is sponsoring this nessee; Thomas C. Fichandler, Ex­ symposium, to generate additional ecutive Director . ,of the pioneer information-regarding these prob­ Arena Stage in Washington, D.O.; lems. The conference is also Harlan Kleiman, Executive Director ini ended to broaden the “regional” of the Long W harf Theatre in New scope of this movement through Ilaven, Connecticut; Mrs. Joseph a sharing of ideas and, experi­ Danz, trustee of the Seattle Reper­ ences on a■ national level, and to tory Theatre, Seattle, Washington; prepare and distribute a text of Nina Vance, Artistic Director, or her these meeting for general use on assistant Iris Siff, of the Alley the expanding scene of Regional Theatre in Houston, Texas. Theatre. In addition to Mr. Moot, a Studio To this end some 30 regional Arena Theatre trustee, other Buffalo theatres have been invited to send participants in the conference will an executive or artistic director and include Irving Levick, President of a trustee to attend the conference. the Studio Arena board of trustees: The two -day conference will offer board member Allen D. Sapp, direc­ panel discussions and seminars by tor of cultural affairs, State Univer- such well known regional theatre siiv of Buffalo; Robert R. Barrett authorities as Peter Zeisler, Man­ Stud io Arena board member and past president; and Neal Du Brock. ; 111- Theatre's Executive Dii'CclO:-. Mr. Du Brock feels that if the new regional theatre movement, which is so important to the future of theatre in the United States, is to survive it will need the complete support of its trustees and the com­ munity. He stated There is no greater problem we can address our­ selves to in theatre today than the relationship between theatre trustees and management because the future of theatre in this country rests s

cation’s Project Curtain (.'all. These Under the Gold Doric, ((Junliiniad on inside Btick (..oi'in) in the Buffalo Savings Bank Building IG YOUNG will make 'his Broad­ — for Joseph E. Levine and Law ­ way return, playing the Donald rence Turman . . . Meanwhile N i­ Sinrien role in Saint Subber’s impor­ chols is also busy building a cast tation of the British hit, There’s a around for a Cirl in My Soup. The “girl” will be Broadway revival of The Little Barbara Ferris, described as a 23- Voxes for the ol year-okl com'binafion of Judy Holli­ day and Marilyn Monroe . . . Lilli Lincoln Centre. lie ’s trying to talk Palmer is joining Sir , out of her deci­ and in sion to boycott the theatre out of Mr. Sebastian . . . “New York,” says sympathy to deposed directors Joan Fontaine, "is the most exciting Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan city, intellectually and socially, that . . . This year’s (the 1 know of. All you can do in Holly­ Oscars of Broadway) will be pre­ wood is empty ashtrays and go to sented Easter Sunday at the the supermarket” . . . Peter Shaffer’s Shubert Theatre, sponsored by the Mack Comedy is the only new League of New York Theatres and straight play able to compete with the hit musicals as a ticket "must.” produced foy Alexander Cohen. Pa­ Its at the Ethel Barrymore . . . Joyce trons will pay $35 a ticket and will Buliiant asked her mother-in-law enter the theatre from a red velvet how to handle comedy, in prepara­ carpet running the length of Schu­ tion for her opening at the Henrv bert Alley. Nearby Sardi’s will re­ Miller in The Paisley Convertible. main open for the first Sunday night As an opening night gift her mother- in living memory. ABC-TV will tele­ in-law sent her a toy clown with the cast the event, first time the awards message: “T H IN K Funny!” Her will be showcased nationally. Mary mother-in-law’s name: . . . , current off- Martin and Robert Preston will be Uroadwav hit in the Circle in the the co-hosts. Square production of Eh?, directed Still on the Tonys, the Harold by Alan Arkin, is Mike Nichol’s (Continued following program)

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presents

Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF B E K EARNEST

A Trivial Comedy for Serious PeoDle

Directed by

TOM GRUENEWALD

Scenery Costum es Lighting Designed by Designed by Designed by

CLARKE DUNHAM JEANNE BUTTON DAVID ZIERK

Resident Company

MICHAEL BRADSHAW RUSSELL DRISCH M AX G U LA CK JEAN HEBBORN LAWRENCE JAMES bLAINE KERR NANCY KOCHERY RENEE LEICHT KENNETH McMILLAN REGINALD MILES AINA NIEMELA PHILIP POLITO GERALD RICHARDS SALLY RUBIN JOHN SCHUCK LINDA SELMAN JOE SERVELLO JAMES J. SLOYAN NAN WITHERS ALAN ZAMPESE THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

John Worthington, J. P...... JO H N SCH UCK

Algernon Moncrieff ...... A LA N ZAMPESE

Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D...... M AX GU LACK

Merriman, Butler GERALD RICHARDS

Lane, M anservant ...... KENNETH McMILLAN

Lady Bracknell ...... JEA N HEBBORN

Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax ...... ELAINE KERR

Cecily Cardew ...... A IN A NIEMELA

Miss Prism, Governess ...... RENEE LEICHT

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY ACT I

Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Hcilf-Moon Street, W.

ACT II The garden at the Manor House, Woolton

ACT III

Conservatory of the Manor House, Woolton

TIME

The turn of the Century

There will be two intermissions.

(During the intermission visit the Stage Left Lounge, then after the show stop again and join the theatre staff and actors) MAX GULACK (Rev. Chasuble) may to play a broad range of roles. Her quizzi­ find his cloak of piety in The Importance cal duenna in Cyrano, the downright of Being Earliest a jolting contrast to spooky hatchet murderess in The M an the aura of depravity he wore in his W ho Came To D inn er and her waspish most recent role, the infamous Marquis Katisha in The M ikado have delighted de Sade in Marat/Sade. Fortunately for Hebborn fans and critics who are never Gulack (as well as the audience) the de­ quite sure w hat kind- of role she w ill piction of his depraved cravings remained appear in next. But then, neither is Jean. largely in the Marquis' imagination, and Sade’s role as socio-political philosopher was the one stressed in the Peter Weiss ELAINE KERR (Gwendolen), whose off­ drama. Gulack participated in the M arat/ stage red-haired radiance would indicate Sade forum, an event which took place she is tailor-made fo r g lam our roles, after the second performance of the play, seems to have an .independent 'talent and held his own in the lofty company which refuses to be limited by "type” or of a playwright, a professor of English “specialty” so glamour is only one of and director Jon Jory. Gulack’s easy de­ her many faces. The gushing sophisticate lineations of buffoons is balanced by his of Lorraine Sheldon in. The M a n W ho many portrayals in serious drama, which Came To D inn er had little to do w ith started- as a m em ber o f the City College the frustrated Louise in After The Fall. (NYC) Dramatic Society. His academic , Likewise, Simmone Evrard, the pathetic­ life somehow got transferred across the ally child-like inmate of Marat/Sade, w ho waters of the Atlantic where he finished as Marat’s mistress waits upon .him in his his studies at Ecole in tub, bore little resemblance to anything Paris, Prance. Since that time, his em­ previously brought to the stage by Miss ployment in the theatre has been on this Kerr. Her professional training was gained side or that of the aforementioned ocean, at; New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse and his bilingual training gives him and the polish that only experience can access to either French or America!: bring came through engagements with such theatre. Off-Broadway audiences saw h im theatres as the Erie Playhouse (Erie), the in the long-running A Country Scandal. Alley Theatre (Houston), the Brown Coun­ Gulack has appeared in all of the Studio try Playhouse (Nashville, Ind.) and the Arena productions this season. Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy.

JEAN HEBBORN (Lady Bracknell) w ;,s RENEE LEICHT (Miss Prism ) is a born in Liverpool, England, moved to comedienne extraordinaire by virtue of America in September of 1962 and has the fact that whatever she does she spent most of her life involved in theatri­ appears to be deadly serious. So well did cal productions of one sort or another. she delineate the determined Miss Preen A dedicated actress, she appeared i:: in The M an W ho Came To D inner, the comedies, serious dramas and musicals indefatigable nurse who, finally, is .driven "over there” and has continued to do the by her vituperous patient to foresake same “over here”. Her first association service to mankind for employment in a with the Studio Theatre was as the munitions factory, that it was a high­ mother in A Taste of Honey and w hen light in the show. Miss Leicht made brief the Studio turned professional as the appearances in A fter The Fall, and again Studio Arena downtown, Miss Hebborn, in M arat/Sade where her brand of comedy unruffled by the major move, tagged along led her to a loonier lunacy than most. She and last season appeared in O h W hat A was launched in summer stock in several Lovely War, A Man For All Seasons and choice musical comedy leads, turned up Y ou Can't Take It With Yon. This season later in Iceland and Greenland in a U.S.O. has presented her with, the opportunity production of Under The Yum Yum Tree, and was finally discovered doing revue and a package show of DuBarry Was A work with Phil Polilo and Allan Leicht, Lady, which starred Dorothy Lamour. A at the Hof Brau Haus in New Haven, member of last year’s company, McMillan, Connecticut. as Lam- in The Iiiipunaiiru of Being Earnest, is appearing in his 11th role at the Studio Arena. KENNETH McMILLAN (Lane) generates a perpetual optimism, joie de vivre and feeling of "life is a ball” in all the roles AINA NIEMELA (C ecily) would, un­ he plays. Perhaps it was this quality doubtedly, protest the label of “family which, made his suicide as Lou in A fter entertainment”, but it is obvious from The F all particularly tragic: it just her work at the Studio Arena that her shouldn’t have happened to such a nice appeal is to both adult and children's guy. Whether he’s quaking in fear of an audiences alike. Her debut as Roxane in awesome Emperor as Ko-Ko, the tailor, Cyrano De Bergerac, the season’s opener, in The Mikado, or waxing enthusiastic found favor with the critics, just as did over his collection of roaches as a re­ her Mollie Jemison, the title role in The nowned entomologist in The Man Who Indian Captive, please the thousands of Came To Dinner, McMillan gives his elementary school children who witnessed characters a tw in k lin g eye, a gusto and the play. Her Pitti-Sing in The MiUado a . siap-on-the-thigh appeal not to be de­ was a delightful romp — and introduced nied. It has served him well as he has a singing voice heretofore heard only by appeared in a number of off-Broadway those school kiddies — while her Elsie successes — Babes In The Wood, Little in After The Fall was a .dramatic switch Mary Sunshine, The Red Eye of Love — and revealed depths of sultry womanli­ and in the Fred Miller theatre (Mil­ ness, unexposed in previous roles. For waukee; production of Thurber Cnrninal the third Project Curtain Call presenta­ tion, A la d d in !, Miss Niemela collaborated with actor-director Joe Servello on the script, which is based on The Arabian .\ights. Prior to Buffalo, Miss Niemela kept her cool in the New York scene by STUDIO THEATRE appearing in three Broadway productions, arena two off-Broadway presentations and any number of television shows. Not content Women's Committee with just that, she played the female lead in a new film entitled The Crazy invites you to enjoy Q uilt, which received great critical ac­ claim as did Miss Niemela.’s performance. OPENING NIGHT BUFFETS in the Stage Left Lounge GERALD RICHARDS (M errim an) w ill ions; be remembered for his dem anding $3.75 per person role of Quentin, the central figure in Studio Arena's recent production of Park early and conveniently — After The Full, who never leaves staj;e Dine leisurely during the course of the play. In the hands of a lesser player, the role could Bar Opens — 6:00 P.M. easily become monotonous, but with the Buffet Served — 7:00 P.M. deft treatment of actor Richards. Quen­ Black Tie Optional tin gripped the audience and won its sympathy, more than appears on the For reservations call: w ritten page of the .script. I.ast season M rs. F. T iln ey — 884-2946 or Richards appeared in A Man For AH Mrs. W. Crone - TF 9-0088 Seasons and portrayed Horace Giddens in {Reservations must be made one week Tin; Little Fo.ves with Colleen Dewhursl. prior to opening.) This season Me has also bee.'! seen in Cyra v.o De Bergerac and played a lea- lured role in The Indian Captive. These as Miles Gloriousus in A Funny Thins roles, of course, were preceded by ap­ Happened On The Way to The Forinn. pearances on Broadway, off-Broadway i:i: has spf-ii: ten seasons in S'.::i’.m e r slock and in road companies not to mention and has played more leads than there is seasons o: si and w s:<;ck room here to mention. which have given Richards the polish and technique of his craft necessary for the fulfillment of any role — large or TOM GRUENEWALD (D irector) returned small. to Butfalo triumphantly upon the closing of After The Fall, the Arthur Miller drama with which he made his directing JOHN SCHUCK {Joim W ar’.i-nu/) spen: debut at the Studio Arena. The produc­ most of M arat/Sade in a loin cloth and tion turned out to be the season’s happiest bath-tub as the tormented revolutionist, hit as it was both a box office bonanza Jean Paul Marat, so The Importance Of and a critics choice, with renewed (and Being Earnest means an addition of — deserved) acclaim for the leads, Linda rather than change of ■— costume. Schuck Selm an and G erald Richards, as well as has kept busy in the theatre ever since for the talents of its director. Another he left his hometown —=•- Buffalo — to hit tucked in- the Gruenewald pocket is pursue iiis career as an actor. Off-Broati- a. musical,: Man With A Load of Mischief, way audiences have seen him in Streets which, opened last fall in New York, with of New York, and he appeared in the gleeful reports along critics row and touring company of A R ain y D ay In has added lustre to the off-Broadway Neioarlc with star Imogene Coca. Regional scene ever since. The success of this theatre caught up with Schuck, and the season for the young director is based Center Staj’.e Theatre in Baltimore, Mary­ not so m uch on luck as it is on good, land took advantage of ^lis talents for solid experience, with such past assign­ many productions. Last summer Shuck ments as directing several productions for returned to Buffalo to portray El Gallo in the Phoenix Theatre in New York, two Tlit; Finaasiicks and with the memory of productions for Equity Library Theatre that performance still strong in every­ and one for the American Place Theatre. one's m ind it seemed a good idea to Other assignments have taken him to bring young Schuck back to the company San Francisco, Louisville and to the on a permanent basis. M arat/Sade proved University of Montana. The University the idea a sound one. of Wisconsin kept him busy during his undergraduate days, while Columbia University School of Dramatic Arts con­ ALAN ZAMl’ESE (/i igerntm ) whose mad­ ferred upon him an M.K.A. before he ness- in M arat/Sade perhaps reached more was totally swept up in the world of violent proportions than anyone else's. professional theatre. certainly has no sanity problem as only ,i cool everyihing-under-controi actor could play the variety of parts which CLARKE DUNHAM I Scene Designer) make up Zampese's theatrical back­ comes to the Studio Arena at the con­ ground. A musical comedy performer as clusion of the busiest season of his well as actor in comedy and drama, career. He has been represented in New Zampese appeared in the New York York til is season by four shows. The musicals, Young Tom Edison and Young Kalcheim Plays, for Edward Albee, lien Frnnh'lin. At the Play - Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder; The house, ofi-Broadway, he was seen in In fa n try ; G unte r Grass’s The W icked The Gulden- Slippers and our Toronto Cooks and the much discussed MaeBird. neighbors saw him as Ludlow Lowell in Earnest is the 125th production D un ham Pal Joeii, the Rodgers and Hart music:;! has designed. As resident designer of the which played the Royal Alexandra Bucks County Playhouse, lie designed the Theatre, with star Jane Russell. Shakes­ original production of Barefoot In The pearean roles are a part of his back­ P ark as w ell as Absence of a Cello. ground and at the Mill Mountain Play­ Later this season he will make his debut house in Roanoke; Virginia, he was seen as a Broadw ay designer w ith the M ike Ellis production of Girl hi The Freudian DAVID ZIERK. (Lighting Designer) heads Slip. D u n h a m lias served as charter vice- the Amherst. Stage Lighting company president of the United Scenic Artists which not only deals in supplying lighting Lighting Associates, which, is the Broad­ equipment and effects but stage scenery way lighting designers' union. He is and props as well, and rarely a week goes .married and is the father of four children. by when Zierk isn’t caught up in the throes of two or three productions in the Buffalo area. With the one exception of JEANNE BUTTON (Costume Designer j last season’s The Firebugs, Zierk has during her twelve years of designing designed the lighting for every produc­ costumes in Lilt; theatre has racked up an tion on the stage of the Studio Arena. impressive list of credits. She is cur­ Prior to that, lie designed many of the rently represented in New York by the Studio Theatre productions at Lafayette cff-Broadway musical, M acBird. Two and Hoyt over a period of ten years, and Broadway shows she worked on this for the Buffalo Arts Festival of Today he season were Come Live With Me and designed seven different shows in the. city Agatha Sue, I Love You, and most re­ during a two week period. He lias de­ cently she was Assistant Costume De­ signed the lighting control equipment for signer for the Japanese stage production the Studio Arena, Melody Fair, the of Gone With The Wind and fo r La Studio School and many of the new pub­ Traviata at the New York City Center. lic and parochial schools in the Buffalo She has designed for the Antioch Shakes­ area as well as for three summer theatres peare Festival and the Williamstown in the Chicago area, including the Summer Theatre. A member of the United Pheasant Run Playhouse and the Edge- Scenic Artists as a costume designer, she water Beach Theatre. Zierk studied at attended the Yale Drama School as a the Yale Drama School and the Goodman scholarship student and is a graduate of Theatre of the Art Institute in Chicago Carnegie Tech. from which he holds a degree in drama.

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