ttre" Illinois Guy S. Uttfe, Jr. Pr- $..a . Tab Hunter in . ..-.-J tl,l,.:sa JUNE 29 - JULY 4, 1965 Guy S. Little, Jr. PRESENTS TAB HUNTER "MISTER ROBERTS" By THOMAS EGGEN and JOSHUA LOGAN With VINCE DE DARlO Ralph Foody, Hal Frank, Arlene Drake, I. W. Klein Richard ~tadelmann, Hugh Kennedy Tirrdl, Lowell Christy DIRECTED BY JOHN KELSO SCENERY AN.D LIGHTING DESIGNED BY PAUL HOFFMAN I ENTIRE PRODUCTION UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. LITTLE I CAST Lieutenant (JG) Roberts .......................................... TAB HUNTER Doc ........................................................... HAL FRANK Dowdy ..............................................HUGH KENNEDY TIRRELL The Captain .................................................... RALPH FOODY lnsigna .......................................................... PETER ROSS Mannion ......................................................DARRELL RUHL Lindstrom ..................................................... BILL FECHT Stefanowski ............................................RICHARD STADELMANN Wiley .........................................................BILL HADDAD Sehlemmer ...................................................... FRED HAHN Reber ........................................................ROBERT BURTON Ensign Pulver ................................................ VIMCE DE DARlO Dolan .......................................................... I. W. KLElN Gerhart ..................................................... LOWELL CHRISTY Lieutenant Ann Girard ......................................... ARLENE DRAKE Shore Patrol Officer ............................................. ROBERT LARK Seamen, Firemen and others ......................... RICK SMITH, KEN DE DARIO, MICKEY RONEY, PAT BORDERS SCENE Aboard the U. S. Navy Cargo Ship, AK 601, operating in the back areas of the Pacific Time: A few weeks before V-E Day until a few weeks before V-J Day. There Will be a 10 Minute Intermission Between Acts No Smoking In The Theatre No Pictures Please - Cameras Not Permitted in Theatre PRODUCTION STAFF FOR MR. LITTLE Production Stage Manager. .Otto L. Schlesinger Public Relations and Publicity ...... Lee York Assistant Stage Manager.. .... ohn Economos Program Editor ....... Hugh Kennedy Tirrell Assistant to the Producer .... tince De Dario Executive Secretary .............. Dee Bradley Prooertv Co-Ordinator ........... Bill Haddad Anorentice Co-Ordinator ........ Darrell Ruhl ~ropertres ..................... Mary Phillips, LXrarian ...................... Paula Francis Pat Berlingeri Production Assistants.. .Fred Hahn. Peter Ross, Children's Theatre Director .... Lowell Christy Robert Lark. Paula Francis. Karren Dille. Lighting Technician ......... Laura Rambaldi Rick Smith. Pamela Hall. Patricia Ber- Box Office ............ Sharon Spencer, Alma lin eri. Bill Fecht, Bonita Chambers, Abi- Smith, Paula Noble, Pat Bennett. Inis Little aif Spreyer, Laura McMurray. Allana Penny Moses %odd, Wattenberg, Robert Burton, National Reoresentative ...... Flovd Ackerman Donna &?=ssmer. Karen Fisher. Jon Abar- Costume ~o:ordinator and banel, Blake Anderson, Rhonda- Day. Rikki Hair Styles ................... Rod Fernandee Jo Klieman. CREDITS: Thanks to Swain-Myers Associates, Inc., Decatur; Fin's Townhouse, Hulbert's Drugs. U- Kum-C Furniture Co.. Mr. Robert Best, Sullivan; Smith's Barn, Arcola. Mister Roberts Presented Through Permission With Samuel French, Inc., N.Y.C. Bachman Company lnc. Furniture - Carpets - Bedding - Draperies Phone: 429-521 1 Furnishers of Fine interiors 240 East Main Street Since 1880 Decatur, Illinois --- - REISACHER REXALL DRUGS SECOND DOOR WEST OF THEATRE Lanvin Bonne Bell Rubinstein GIFTS Shulton Fabsrgr Revlon Max Factor Yardley Tussy Mrs. Snydu's Candies DuBarry Millot Givenchy DINING ROOM COCKTAIL LOUNGE Intersection 133 and 45 ARCOLA, ILLINOIS Private Dining Room for Parties WEEK DAYS - 5:00-9:30 SATURDAYS - 5:00-11:OO SUNDAYS - 12N- 8:30 (or after theatre with rmervations) RESERVATIONS - Phone Areola 2684949 Central Jllinod ' 3inedt Compliments of HENDRIX BOTTLING CO. MATTOON, ILLINOIS -7. 'F 4 -- _ J Sullivan Grain Company - r- Elevators EAST END ELEVATOR--Sullivan WEST END ELEVATOR-Sullivan Grain - Cob Litter - Mulch MACON GRAIN COU-con Snd Treating & Cleaning Sullivan, Ill. 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Eisners DEPARTMENT STORE And Complete Line of Clothing For the Entire Family Eirner Agencies 8-6 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday SOUTH SIDE OF SQUARE 8-9 Thursday and Friday 6-7 Saturday REED'S Sullivan Greenhouse A Say It With Flowers Exclusively Ft~%k$rs Phone 4210 and 4216 NATlONAL BANK OF SULLIVAN SULLIVAN, ILLINOIS A Progressive Bank FREE SOIL TESTING PLAID STAMPS A Specialist at Every Location - AFCO - Heating - - Air Conditioning - - Plumbing - AYARS' STATE BANK and - Electrical - MOWEAQUA, l LLlNOlS Engineered Heat, Inc. "Where People Are More 18 Wart Harrison Sullivan Important Than Money" Phone 3176Night 8129 KEN'S FOOD STORES Serving Moultrie and Macon Counties Route 121 435 South Hamilton Street MT. ZION, ILLINOIS SULLIVAN, ILLINOIS WINDSOR, ILLINOIS lehman I.G.A. Jividen FOODLINER EVERYDAY - LOW FOOD PRICES SULLIVAN'S NEWEST and LARGEST 11 West Jackson S~~llivan,Illinois Aper the Skew, Meet t6e Cast Jibby's STEAKS - PIZZA SANDWICHES and DRINKS ONE BLOCK NORTH OF SQUARE NORMA'S LADIES READY TO WEAR NORTH SIDE OF SQUARE Open Evenings For Your Shopping Convenience Tuesday Thru Saturday 8:30 to 8:30 - Mondays 2:30 to 5:00 4. Phone 6228 Sullivan, Illinois About the Staff . Hardware State Bank PAUL S. HOFFMAN Scenic Designer- Paul Hoffman has designed scenery and light- Lovington, Ill. ing for many productions at Milwaukee's Swan Theatre including Light Up The Sky with William Bendix. The Moon Is Blue with Jack Kelly. The Pleasure Of His Company with Lkda Darnill and Critic's Choice with Dennis O'Keefe. Mr. Hoffman was a scenic artist at the famous Berkshire Play- house: he has also been associated with the Hawk- Always hill Plavhou* in Wisconsin. While worklne on his MFA in theatre at Ohio University, he- was a graduate assistant in technical theatre. Paul will be designing the scenfry :.lls a:ltnmer beginning with Courteous Service Dracula and throuehout the season clo8ine with Irma La Doucr. - - HARRIET LEIGH Choreographer Harriet Leigh has appeared on Broadway as "Your Haalth Is Ow Buzi~wsd' an actress and dancer in First Impressions with Hermione Gingold, Rodger and Hsmmerstein's Me And Jzrliet and Gemttemen Prefer Blondes. TV audiences have seen her work on Voice of Fire- stone and in stock, she has ap eared as Maggie in Brigadoon, Mairie in The Joy Friend. An body's in West Side Story and Msggie in Cat dri A Hot Tin Roof, among many other roles. Off- Broadway. she has choreographed Come Morning, Streets of Confusion, Oediplu Rex and Wizard of 01. Miss Leigh has been choreographer and di- rector at theatres such as Town and Country in NEXT DOOR TO THEATRE Rochester, N. Y. and the Red Barn in Saugatuck, Michigan. OTTO L. SCHLESINGER ALSO BETHANY Stage Manager Mr. Schlesinger served as stage manager and actor at Mr. Little's spring season of Piccolo Play- house in Joliet. Mr. Schlesinger brings with him an impressive background of classical roles such Bofors, At Intermission or After Show as Brendel in Roswrsirolm. Lovewitt in The Al- chemist. Tattle in Love For Love and Landolfo in Enrico IV. which he recently did at Chicago's new Harper Theatre. Otto appeared aa Weber in Gypsy with Julie Wilson at the Dorchester Theatre and as Lt. Commander Hardcastle in Watch It SODA FOUNTAINS Sailor at Shady Lane Playhouse. At Piccolo Play- house, he was seen as Oscar in Mary. Mary with Rosemary Prinz. This season in Sullivan, he will be featured in King of Hearts, Bus Stop and DracuIa Sullivan 3200 Bethany 153 FUNERAL HOME DIAL 4100 SULLIVAN, ILLINOIS INSURANCE CLAIMS ---can be handled without red tape or delay when you insure with your local independent agent. J WOOD INSURANCE AND REALTY CO. 7 West Harrison Street Sullivan, Illinois - About the Staff . Compliments of SALLY GlFFT Costume Designer Sally Gifft is another new addition to the Little Theatre's staff this season. This past winter. Miss Giff,'s costumes have been viewed off-Broadway in p-oductions of By Jupiter, The Servants of Two Brown Shoe Co. Masters and Suddenly Last Summer. Last summer at The Front Theatre in Memphis, she created the costumes for My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees and The Country Wife. At the new Morris Theatre in N. J.. Sally has just completed work on TJIC ~m- Sullivan, Illinois aginary Invalld. Miss G~fftreceived her BFA at Cornell University and was on the staff there as costume dwigner from 1959 to 1961. The many off- Broadway productions for which she has designed the costumes include The Awakening of Spring. Billygoat Eddie, Plain and Fancy. God. Mas And You, Baby. The Mag~cFlute and The Devil's Dm- ciple. BILL HUDNET and VlNCE DE DARlO Assistants to the Producer Mr. Hudnet and Mr. De Dario spent their first season in Sullivan last summer and joined Mr. Little for the opening of Piccolo Playhouse this as+* past Februar in Joliet. A former