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I); Welcometo the1958 Summerof Musicals . . .

Welcome to Broadway in the country. Last season was the first time Guy S. Little, Jr., presented his SUMMER OF MUSI- CALS in Sullivan. That season was the culmination of many years of planning and dreaming. When very young he spent three seasons in summer stock at Keene, New Hampshire, and at Gateway Musical Playhouse at Ocean City, New Jersey. There he learned theatre business from the ground up . . . from making negligees for the leading lady to building scenery and stages. He was so enthralled with the theatre that he majored in drama at the University of Miami. While there he played numerous roles at the Ring Theatre and appeared in six operas with the Miami Opera Guild in support to Metropolitan opera stars. At Miami he met his wife, Jerili, who was a voice and drama major also. There he also had experience in directing, designing and publicity work. After receiving his B.A. he did graduate work at The American Theatre Wing and at Columbia University in City to further prepare himself to be a theatre producer. For the past ten years he familiarized himself with all Broadway productions of the past and present. He col- lected props and costumes for the day when he would operate a summer theatre. All during these years of preparation his dream was to bring the theatre to the Midwest, to the country. Why should New England be the only place where one could see the best of Broadway in summer stock? Would not the Mid- west, would not his home town support a SUMMER OF MU- SICALS? And so SUMMER OF MUSICALS opened July 3, 1957, with ERIGADOON featuring a New York cast. The outstanding shows that followed last season inzluded WONDERFUL TOWN, GUY S. LITTLE.JR. , KISS ME, KATE, SONG OF NORWAY, CALL ME MADAM, WISH YOU WERE HERE, FINIAN'S RAINBOW and . SUMMER OF MUSICALS is the only professional theatre between Chicago and St. Louis. It is one of the few musical theatres in the country that presents the latest Broadway musicals on a proscenium stage in an air conditioned indoor theatre.

Arthur Ostrin Rhoda Levine J. Richard Marshall Thaddeue J. Gesek ARTHUR OSTRIN directed mu- RHODA LEVINE-Miss Levine J. RICHARD MARSHALL re- THADDEUS J. GESEK has his sicals at the Gateway Musical did choreography last summer at ceived his B.M. degree from In- master's degree in scenic design Playhouse in New Jersey after Dayton, Ohio, and Wellesley, diana University and his mas- from Yale University. He hos de- completing his education at ., on such shows as Brig-- ter's from the Eastman School of s:gncd sets and costumes at many Fordhnm University in New doon, Can-Can and The Would Music. He organized and direct- of the leading theatres through- York City. He has been popular Be Genllernan. She has appeared ed musicals which toured Japan out the East including the Mar- as an actor-singer on Broadway, in all the leading summer the- and had extended runs in Tokyo. blehead Playhouse, Tuft's Area in night clubs and on radio and atres in the East as Little Eva He has conducted such musicals Theatre and The Chase Barn TV. in . as So. Pacific and The King & I. Playhouse. q~me ,~s~~sN~usW-iht, BY AND RICHARD BISSELL Music and Lyrics by RICHARD ADLER AND JERRY ROSS BASED ON THE NOVEL "7% CENTS" BY RICHARD BISSELL JUNE 25-29

THE PAJAMA GAME was called "bright, bras- Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, a chance to com- sy and jubiliantly sassy . . . has a fresh and win- pose such bright song hits as "Hey There," "Steam ning grin on its face from the outset . . a kind of Ileat," "Hernando's Hideaway," "I'm Not at All in . Love," "Small Talk," "There Was a Man" light-hearted adventure industrial folklore--and it and a score full of other outstanding tunes. is gay, contemporary, wonderfully innocent and has a certain bounding wonderfully sly all at once" (Walter Kerr in the gaiety, a sense of youthful high spirits, that illu- New York Herald Tribune) and "A riot of fun . . . a mines the stage, together with a series of character deliriously daffy delight! A royal flush and a grand songs and dances that are full of charm and de- slam rolled into one!"(Robert Coleman, N. Y. Daily light. Inventive and lively dances sweep across the Mirror). stage, and even the factory settings are possessed THE PAJAMA GAME pertains to a union's of a lightness and airiness that makes it inviting. campaign to wangle an hourly pay raise of 7y2 There is always laughter and constant melody and cents and a young superintendent's campaign to yet a plot that makes sense as it unfolds. And THE woo and win the pretty head of the union's griev- PAJAMA GAME takes place in a small Midwestern ance committee. This conflict between labor and town which should be of more than unusual inter- management gives the clever song-writing team, est to patrons of SUMMER OF MUSICALS.

FRANKBorn ANDREA BLAYNE ART AUSTIN FRANK BOULEY-One of New York's ANDREA BLAYNE was a hit last sea- ART AUSTIN excited audiences last leading makes his Grand Thea- son at the Grand as Madam Ambassador summer with his comical performances as atre debut in the role of Sid Sorokin in Sally Adams in Call Me Madam and as the social director in Wish You Were The Pajama Game. Mr. Bouley has been Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. Miss Here, Og, the leprechaun in Finian's Rain- seen by nation-wide audiences in such Blayne has appeared on all network TV bow and Nicely-Nicely in Guys and movies as Mr. Music, Two Weeks with programs and in many Broadway plays Dolls. Mr. Austin recently appeared at Love and Get Your Gun. Well- and musicals. This season Miss Blayne the Center with an all known on Broadway, he played the lead will appear as Julie in , Ruth star cast in The Time of Your Life. He in during its long New Winters in Plain and Fancy, Lapistache has been a popular performer both on TV York run. in Can-Can and Lola in Damn Yankees. and in movies. Musk and Lyrieo by IRMQG BERLM

Book By Music by Book and Lyricsby OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 11

JULY Based on the Novel by SHOW BOAT which has often Annie Oakley, a hick from the backwoods, meets the world's been called the greatest of all musical champion sharpshooter, Frank Butler, and immediately falls in love comedies was written in 1926 and with him. Their romance, while starring in Buffalo Bill's Wild West has been extremely popular since Show, definitely has its ups and downs until Annie realizes that you that time on the stage and in the can't get a man with a gun. movies. Life magazine calls SHOW Since its Broadway production in 1946, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN BOAT "an authentic American clas- has become one of the all time great successes in the history of mod- sic . . . a beautiful and satisfying em musical comedy. Irving Berlin, who recently celebrated his sev- event." entieth birthday, considers ANNIE and CALL ME MADAM his favor- The Mississippi River show boat, ite shows. The American public agrees since ANNIE offers such hit "Cotton Blossom," owned by Cap'n tunes as "Doin' What Comes Naturally," "The Girl That I Marry," Andy Hawks, ties up at the Natchez "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun," "They Say It's Wonderful," "I levee to present a melodrama star- Got Lost in His Arms," "Who Do You Love, I Hope," "I Got the Sun ring Julie and Steve. Because of per- in the Morning," "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" and sonal difficulties, Julie and Steve "There's No Business Like Show Business." ANNIE not only abounds leave the cast and Magnolia, Cap'n in song hits, the Dorothy and Herbert Fields' book has vitality, color, story strength and vigorous characters.

WLILITTLE FRANKBOULEY RACHEL LEWIS JERILI LITTLE will play the title part FRANK BOULEY has appeared on such RACHEL LEWIS is this season's lead- in Annie Get Your Gun as well as appear- network TV programs as Arthur Godfrey ing dancer and she appears as Ellie (the ing as Laurey in Oklahoma! and Hilda in Talent Scouts, Godfrey and Friends and "Life U~onthe Wicked Stage" girl) in Plain and Fancy. Local audiences rernern- was a three time winner on Stars in Show Boat. Miss Lewis has appeared with ber Miss Little's performances last sea- Khaki and Blue. In 1954 Mr. Bouley ap- the N. Y. City Center as a leading dancer son as Meg in Brigadoon, Scharwenka in peared in Arabian Nights at Jones Beach and has played Little Eva in The King Roberta, Sarah in Guys and Dolls and the in N. Y. and did the lead in RIO Rita at and I at all the leading theatres in the title part in Kiss Me, Kate. the Rye Music Theatre. He has recorded East. Last season she appeared in Briga- several albums for Souvenir Records. doon at Dayton, Ohio. JULY 30-AUG.3 A New Musical JULY 9-13 Comedy

Book by Andy's daughter, makes her debut as Stein leading lady. The new leading man Joseph is Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler, who end takes the acting job to make a few Will Glickmm dollars. LIrics by Ravenal and Magnolia fall in love Arnold B. and many. They move to Chicago Hamitt where his gambling reduces them to povsrty. Realizing the bitterness he Music by has brought on Magnolia, he aban- Albert Hague dons her and their infant daughter, Kim. But Frank and Ellie, who once played on the show boat. hel~ PLAIN AND FANCY relates the adventures of two sophisticated ~agnoliaget work at a night clu6. New Yorkers visiting a farm near Bird-in-Hand, Penna., which could Years pass but finally Magnolia and be Arthur, Ill. Here they find a charming, picturesque and wholly Ravenal are reunited and the "Cot- admirable Amish community which eschews such modernisms as ton Blossom" continues to play up the telephone, automobiles, and indoor plumbing. The complications, and down the Mississippi. The out- humorous and romantic, produced by this meeting of city folk and standing Jerome Kern songs in this country Amish result in an evening or afternoon of sheer delight. show include "Only Make Believe," William Hawkins of the New York World Telegram and Sun called "01' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' PLAIN AND FANCY "as fresh as new mown hay, bubbly as hard Dat Man," "Life Upon the Wicked cider and pretty as a bride's smile." "PLAIN AND FANCY is a girl- Stage," "," "Why Do I and-music entertainment that has gayety, imagination, freshness, Love You," and "Bill." tunefulness, good dancing and all the other ingredients of an excep- tionally refreshing evening in the theatre," quoted Richard Watts of the N. Y. Post. The fresh score from PLAIN AND FANCY includes such bright tunes as "Young and Foolish, "It Wonders Me," "Plenty of Pennsyl- vania," "This Is All Very New to Me," and "Follow Your Heart."

RONALD ROGERS ANDREA BLAYNE BOB GWALTNEY RONALD ROGERS who opened the the- ANDREA BLAYNE-Miss Blayne has a BOB GWALTNEY returns to Summer of atre last year with Brigadoon and re- most impressive background as an actress Musicals for his second full season. He turned to play leads in Wonderful Town having appeared on Broadway as Bianca will be familiar to Sullivan Theatregoers and Guys and Dolls will this season ap- in Kiss Me, Kate and also in The Seven for his outstanding performances 2s Mr. pear as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat. Year Itch. For two years she was under Appopolous in Wonderful Town, the gang- Mr. Rogers has been called "The Toast contract with 20th Century Fox Studios in ster in Kiss Me, Kate, the Count in Song cf London" and has been extremely popu- Hollywood and has appeared on such of Norway and Big Jule in Guys and :ar throughout this country as a leading video programs as The Robert Montgom- Dolls. Mr. Gwaltney has appeared at jaritone. ery Show, and Studio One. many of the leading summer theatres. Book, Music and Lyrics by Sandy Wilson

JULY23-27

As almost everyone knows by this time THE was not always filled with be-bop and brass-lung- BOY FRIEND is a most amusing treatment of the ed baritones. kind of musical comedy popular 30 years ago. AS The individual music for the show and its the London Sunday Times said: "It is not a mu- sound are even more arresting than the plot. The sical comedy of the twenties. It is the epitome, music which frames this action and helps to out- line its piercing humor is of the most memory- the essence of them all." The scene is the French provoking sort. Like all such musicals it must Riviera, where Polly, a millionaire's daughter, is have a vibrant title tune. There is the inevitable attending a fashionable finishing school. She falls dance number, "Won't You Charleston With in love with Tony, a delivery boy who is actually Me?"; the love ballad, "I Could Be Happy With the son of Lord Brockhurst. To hold his interest, You"; the song of longing, "A Room in Blooms- Polly pretends to be a working girl and this leads buy"; and the humorous ditty, "It's Never too to all kinds of complications. The play is, really, a Late to Fall in Love." Sandy Wilson has so com- huge musical jokmne which, both visually and pletely captured the spirit and temper of the times audibly takes the older theatre-goer back to his that there is really no question of the play taking salad days and reminds the younger that the world place in any year but 1926!

JERILILITTLE GUY LITTLE.JR. JERILI LITTLE has appeared in opera, GUY LITTLE started his professional JEANNE HOTARD recently appeared at musical comedy, and plays in many the- theatre career as Ben in Lady in the Miami's fabulous Coconut Grove Play- atres throughout the country. She won Dark at a leading summer theatre in house in the American premiere of Simon brilliant reviews from the Miami critics Keene, New Hampshire. Since that time cnd Laura and with Ed Begley in Inherit for her performance as Jennet in Chris- he has appeared in over fifty musical the Wind. Miss Hotard has been extreme- topher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. comedies, operas and dramas. His credits ly popular as an actress in such plays as Miss Little appeared with the Miami Op- as a performer include roles in Juno and Sabrina Fair, Thieves' Carnival and era Guild in support to Metropolitan the Paycock, , The Merry Widow Shakespeare's As You Like It. Opera stars in Madame Butterfly. La Boheme and Lucia di Lammamore. MUSIC BY RICHARD RODGERS

BOOK AND LYRICS BY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I1

Based on the Novel. "Anna and the King of Siam," by MARGARET LANDON - JULY \\v eKing andI -

When THE KING AND I opened on March 29, on the hit parade: "I Whistle a Happy Tune," "Hel- 1951, at the St. James Theatre in New York, it was lo Young Lovers," "March of the Siamese Chil- the consensus of opinion that the team of Rodgers dren," "Getting to Know You," "We Kiss in a and Hammerstein I1 had achieved another triumph Shadow," "Something Wonderful," "I Have of collaboration. "The boys have done it again" Dreamed" and "Shall We Dance?" Brooks Atkin- was the tribute of Broadway to the joint creators son of the N. Y. Times called THE KING AND I of OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, ALLEGRO, and "An original and beautiful excursion into the rich . In the line of its illustrious pred- splendors of the Far East, done with impeccable ecessors, THE KING AND I was something more taste by two artists. A beautiful and lovable play." than a musical. It is, in the truest sense a musical THE KING AND I is a glorious show; it has taste, play, a drama which is both serious and humor- style and singular beauty. It has comedy, drama, ous. Almost every song from this great score was pathosa musical piece that touches the heart.

PAUL FLORES ANDREA BLAYNE NORMAN BELKIN PAUL FLORES-Paul's rich ANDREA BLAYNE-As well as being a NORMAN BELKIN is a character actor voice has been heard in 28 grand opera popular actress-singer in New York and who has appeared in every medium of roles with such leading companies as the on the stage and on TV, Miss Blayne has show business. He has appeared with such San Antonio Opera . Last sum- appeared on the road and in summer stock stars as Joan Blondell in Happy Birth- mer Mr. Flores appeared as the King in as leading lady in such roles as Ruth in day, June Havoc in Rain, Judy Holliday The King and I in Indiana with great Wonderful Town, Vera in Pal Joey, Shar- in Dream Girl and The Doctor in Spite success. on in Finian's Rainbow, Julie in Show of Himself with Denise Darcel. Norman's Boat and Liza Elliott in Lady in the musical credits include roles in Show Dark. Boat and Pal Joey. AUGUST6-10

Music 4%&8~& Lyrics by bootbl 1-L I." ABeBURROWS MUSIC BY Burrows LYRICS BY OTTO HARBACH AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I1

THE DESERT SONG offers one of the great Sigmund Romberg's most Last season audiences at SUMMER OF MUSICALS filled the outstanding scores and a plot just as Grand Theatre to capacity to see GUYS AND DOLLS by Abe Bur- exciting as the music. THE DESERT rows and KISS ME, KATE by Cole Porter. And it's Mr. Burrows and SONG, unfolds amid all the romance Mr. Porter again with a splashy, sassy touch of Gay that will and splendor of the "Foreign Le- greet audiences this season. This hilarious musical tells of a young gion," is the tale of a mysterious Parisian Judge who sets out to expose the vice in the picturesque Montmarte dives and ends up in love with the owner of one of these gentlemen known as the Red Shad- illicit night clubs where launderesses engage in that wild, new ow, who is the terror of the French fangled dance, the "Can-Can." troops and the hope and mainstay of Yes, dancing you'll really see to your heart's content for it is in CAN-CAN that the SUMMER OF MUSICALS' dancing ensemble really have the opportunity to kick up their heels in gay abandon. The fast paced dialogue and exuberant dance routines have the wholehearted backing of one of the finest musical brews ever to come from the Porterhouse. You've been singing and humming them ever since they were introduced to Broadway. The hit tunes from this show include "C'est Magnifique," "," "Never Give Anything Away," "Alles-VousEn" and "I Am in Love."

ANDREA BLAYNE JEANMARS,,=.LL ANDREA BLAYNE-Among the numer- DICK STEPHENS was a member of the JEAN MARSHALL is a native of Spring- ous summer theatres which have claimed company last season at Summer of Mu- field, Mass., who has appeared under her Miss Blayne's time and talent over the sicak. He sang and danced his way husbands' direction in productions of On past few years are The Ogunquit Play- through eight of the shows in 1957. the Town and Kiss Me, Kate in Tokyo. house in Maine, the Northland Playhouse His roles included Rusty Charlie in Guys In this country her dramatic soprano in Michigan and the LoJolla Playhouse and Dolls, the Pilgrim Gospeleer voice has been heard in many operas and in California. Miss Blayne has appeared in Finian's Rainbow and Ralph, the stage concert recitals. She has sung leading opposite Luther Adler, Edward Everett manager, in Kiss Me Kate. :ole6 in Parsival and The Merry Wives of Horton and others. Windsor. the native Riffs. You will be sur- prised to learn that he is in reality none other than the handsome young son of the French Governor of the Moroccan province, who all the time is mistaken for a weakling and a coward by his father and the girl he loves. The girl, Margot, longed for ad- venture and regarded Pierre at home with a mixture of kindliness and scorn. But the Red Shadow canies Margot off to his camp in the desert where she falls victim to the lure and romance of the mysterious rebel with- out knowing his identity. AUGUST20-24 THE DESERT SONG is full of col- orful costumes, scenery and an out- BOOK BY GEORGE ABBOTT AND DOUGLAS WALLOP standing cast of singers, dancers and MUSIC AND LYRICS BY RICHARD ADLER AND JERRY ROSS comedians. You will hear such all Based on the Novel, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" time favorites as "One Alone," "Ro- mance," "One Flower in your Gar- DAMN YANKEES tells the story of a plump and balding, middle- aged real estate salesman in Washington, D. C., who is an avid fan den," "The Riff Song," and of course, of his hometown ball team. In a rash moment he murmurs that he'd the famous title song. "sell his soul to see the Washington Senators win the pennant from the damn Yankees." The same outstanding young song writers that turned out the score for THE PAJAMA GAME are responsible for such hit parade songs in this show as "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets," "Two Lost Souls" and "You've Got to Have Heart." Lewis Funke of the N. Y. Times called this show "as shiny as a new baseball and almost as smooth, a new musical glorifying the national pastime . . . as far as this umpire is concerned you can count it among the healthy clouts of the campaign."

JOEL MUNCH ARTAUSTIN JOEL MUNCH is a native of Sullivan JUDITH RUNYON is a talented dancer- ART AUSTIN has appeared in such whom audiences at the Grand enjoyed in singer who is a new member of the com- leading TV shows as Kraft Television all nine musicals last summer. Mr. Munch pany this season. Judith has spent the Playhouse, The Big Story, Studio 1 Sum- was seen in a variety of roles which in- past two summers at the National Music mer Theatre and the Phil Silvers series, cluded Harry Beaton in Brigadoon, Chick Camp in Interlocken, Michigan, doing You're in the Army Now. In the movies Clark in Wonderful Town, Father Grieg leads in many ballets. She recently ap- Art has been seen with Tyrone Power in .n Song of Norway, Sebastian in Call Me peared as Maggie Anderson in a Decatur The Eddie Duchin Story, with Van Heflin Madam and Pinky in Wish You Were production of Brigadoon. in Patterns and with Bob Hope in That Here. Certain Feeling. C. 6 ha j 9 om cum m 2% oqg 0% *g 2 o *;a,O$H O%a,h 2~3: F:~4E;*ozcu+ 3384 -:s g, 3f 'lo -dE;gb -am. rn ma 8.2 mza$ST O%*$ -. +.2 om ~a g* sgs,A Bag cuo o o;g ga s3pa,. s-nOJ$' g -0 b -8 03% p Bsa~s m . $A0;1a .- . m-. PM a, gp 3 .u4 20.2 hA O @,zE xi q.sm0 d,uu as SEG.ii .$j +rd $US;*A ZB.~g A*ozo M 2 %q33$5 22 0 z - 5$a.r( u +4 32 cqzu 62:Em" m u4 E rdnZEma, REHEARSALSCENES

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