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February 1 FINISHING TOUCHES February 28, March 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 THE LION IN WINTER April 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 THE HAPPY TIME May 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 CIVIC THEATRE STAFF Richard Casey, Managing Director Robert Sandmaier, Scene Designer Phyllis Gunderson, Office Manager Nancy Ragsdale, Costume Designer Barbara Zala, Box Office Manager William Borchert, Technical Assistant Janice McNellis, Youtheatre BOARD OF DIRECTORS Term Expires 1977 Term Expires 1976 Term Expires 1975 Charles Callery, Pres. William Bogardus, Treas. Richard Adams, Vice-Pres. Polly Deal Joan Goldner Bernice 8radley Dotty Fitchey, Sec. Steve Steckbeck Milford M. Miller Milt Folds Laura Vonderlage Manuel Silverman Darrell Huntley Al Zacher Richard VerWiebe Loretta Spring, Guild Hildegard Morgan, Youtheatre Prices and Curtain Times CURTAIN TIME Friday and Saturday 8:30 P.M. Wednesday and Thursday 7:30 P.M. The box office is open from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. daily, starting FOR DEPENDABLE two weeks before opening night. 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( The true teat oP quality etereo When you are at home relaxing in finest stereo system. You close your favorite easy chair, or curled your eyes and there you are inside up by the cozy fireside listening to the symphony hall enjoying a the brilliant passages of a beautiful repeat performance. symphony, you care only about That's the kind of stereo you hearing the music at its finest. You can buy at Fort Wayne Electronics. don't really care to know it's being The kind of stereo that you forget brought to you thru the world's is in the room, because it is so fine. ETORT WAYNE ( Indiana's • • largest selection ELECTRONICS of quality stereo A SUBSIDIARY OF GRAHAM ELECTRONICS IN THE GLENBROOK MALL 4201 COLDWATER ROAD PHONE 483-3155 AND OUR WAREHOUSE STORE 3606 E. MAUMEE AVE- PHONE 423-3433 MR. DON PRICE Director-Choreographer for LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE" Dl RECTIONS The Civic Theatre's next production. Rick Besoyan's light-hearted musical comedy, LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE - staged by New York director-choreographer, Don Price, opens on December 13. LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE Friday, December 13 — 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 18 - 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 14 - 8:30 p.m. Thursday, December 19 - 7:30 p.m. r "Sunday, December 15 - 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 20 - 8:30 p.m. "Tuesday, December 17 - 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 21 — 8:30 p.m. 'Please Note: Because of the anticipated popularity of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE we've added two additional performances to the regular schedule. LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE is a holiday treat for ihe whole family! A light-hearted, loving lampoon of the old time Victor Herbert, Rudolph Friml, Sigmund Romberg oper­ ettas, such as "Rose Marie" and "Naughty Marietta", it has 24 songs! Heroic Rangers! Thundering choruses! Beautiful heroines! Lilting duets! Schmaltzy waltzes! - all kidding - and all in fun! If you liked Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals, you'll love LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE. TIME MAGAZINE: "Despite a title that would embarass Oscar Hammerstein, the show is redeemingly satirical, and it has turned into one of the most surprising phenomena in off-Broadway history . Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences . audiences shout with laughter at every sinister turn in the plot, causing at least one minority group to scowl in dissent: children at the matinees take the story dead seriously." THE NEW YORKER, Donald Malcolm: I am afraid that opening night found me among those who were stamping their feet, waving their programs about, giggling and generally spreading themselves around." N. Y. HEARLD TRIBUNE, Walter Kerr: "I would like to recommend a cornfield festival blooming off-Broadway, called LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE. Composer Rick Besoyan . has dipped into the shimmering schmaltz of all those operettas Sigmund Romberg and friends used to write to see how it feels to plant your feet in solid fudge. It feels fine . LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE turns out numbers that will send you doubled-up and help­ less out into the night. I almost never see anything so easy and foolish and delightful on Broadway anymore." Fine Arts Foundation Artist-in-Residence, guest director-choreographer, Don Price, arrives from New York on November 3 to begin casting and rehearsals for LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE. Mr. Price, who choreographed the original Caffe La Mama production of DAMES AT SEA, and who is one of New York's busiest directors, will have just wound up staging a preview production of a new off-Broadway comedy by Harvey Zucherman, en­ titled BINGO TONIGHT, at the Ansonia Little Theatre - which is an "off-Broadway" playhouse in the Ansonia Hotel on upper-Broadway! Casting tryouts — auditions — readings (whatever you choose to call them) for THE CHERRY ORCHARD will take place on Sunday, November 24 at 2:00 p.m. and Monday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. in the East Rehearsal Room of the theatre. Rehearsals for Anton Checkov's lovely, haunting, bittersweet comic masterpeice about the last days of a charmingly irresponsible, middle-class family in pre-Revolution Russia, will begin on December 1; which will give us all a head start on a challenging play (while Mr. Price stages LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE) - and we might even be able to take time out for Christmas! Heavens, such luxury. Ars longs, vita brevis. Richard Casey GREENLAWN MEMORIAL PARK AND MAUSOLEUM 6600-6700 COVINGTON ROAD • P.O. BOX 675 • FORT WAYNE. 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NOVEMBER 8 thru 23 Wednesday thru Saturday Nights SECOND STORY THEATRE Dinner Theatre SHERATON INN Information & Reservations call 422 9577 ^ YOUR DOWNTOWN PONTIAC DEALER FURNITURE FOR OVER 40 YEARS INTERIORS HOME OF THE PRICE FIGHTER MAIN ATBARR 119 WEST WAYNE ST. ACROSS FROM THE FORT WAYNE, IND. FINE ARTS CENTER "... the search for compelling purpose." Kingman Brewster, Jr., President of Yale University, delivered this address at the Freshman Assembly on September 3. He has graciously granted permis­ sion to Civic Theatre director, Richard Casey, to reprint it in this programme. ************ Welcome to the burdens which this largely permissive university imposes on you. Harassments of petty regimentation. As a wise teacher of mine once said, "if the trains didn't run on time, more people would miss them." But the harassments of regimentation are nothing compared to the burdens of choice. To be offered so much choice leaves you a little lonely. To have it all left up to you is somewhat isolating. In a sea of strangers, it's not always easy to know where you are, let alone to know the directions in which you should be heading. But there is a heavier and more long-lasting burden of freedom which you cannot escape. You share it with all members of a free society. Yours is the burden of having to find out for yourself what matters most, what you care most about, what you believe, what you most want to do with your life. 1 commend to you Eric Fromm's "Fear of Freedom" in which, from the perspective of the forties and the war against Fascism, he points out that liberation, first from ecclesiastical, and later from political authority, left man standing alone, isolated, afraid, and terribly susceptible to any dogma to which he could surrender his freedom and find purpose not in choice but in submission.