Book and Lyrics by Barry Alan Grael
Music by Richard B. Chodosh

Performed
August 18-21, 25-28, Sept 1-4 1965
at
The Boal Barn Playhouse

Production Staff

Director	Warren Burns
Producer	Bill Dunkel
Music Director	Harriet Rosenberg
Choreographer	Helen Hungerford
Set Design Apprentice Master	Allan Just
Publicity Coordinator	Mary Neilly
Costume Manager	Nancy Huber
Costumes	Barbara Brown Mary Lou Garber Iona Miller
Hair Stylist	Virginia McCulloch
Makeup Manager	Phebe Fritz
Properties Manager	Michelle Orlando
Lights and Sound	Ben Marsh George Bennett
Concession Manager	Nancy Lawther
Publicity Manager	Jan Christensen
Publicity	Joe Servello
Photography	Carl Dossin, Jr.
Stage Manager	Cynthia Campbell
Assistant Stage Manager	Marcia Schutze
1965 Season Apprentices	George Bennett Chris Bleuler Nick Bubash Vicky Dale Bill French Karen French Phebe Fritz Richard Gorlow Geoff Harris Kathy Klein Nancy Lawther Robin Lewis Toni Lewis Marti Lindsay Ben Marsh Michelle Orlando Dick Porter Charleen Rutschky Bob Sams Karen Shaw Marcia Shutze Linda Trotter Carl Vesper Rick Vincent Randy White Gretl Yeager Raul Zimmerman

About the Show

THE THEATRE IN THE 188O’s…
WHEN MEN WERE MEN – and women liked it that way

The theatre in the 1880’s was a wonderful and busy place. At theatres in downtown New York a thousand people, mostly men, would sit jam-packed on hard, wooden, backless benches in the huge horseshoe-shaped galleries of typical theatre. Song sheets for the current production were sold on the street and in the lobby. The customers frequently joined in–after a fashion–in some popular ballad being sung on the stage. Lozenge-boys, hawked their wares during the show and kept up a running commentary on the show in progress. Responses from the crowd were frequent and vociferous–cheers and jeers.

The plays of the period were, as you will see them echoed tonight, sticky sweet at times or unabashedly villainous. Men were virtuous or evil, with no shades of grey. Women were either virtuous or “fallen.” But even fallen “… she is, after all, a Woman!” There always had to be a scene of “tumult and confusion” to please the crowd. We’ve arranged just such a scene for you tonight and we hope you cheer lustily when Virtus Triumphs Again! After the show in 1880, the crowd sought out their popular delicacy–oysters–sold at curbside by push-cart vendors. Considering some bad pizza we have had, maybe the old-timers had something!

We welcome you most heartily tonight. We ask you to relax and become part of our mood of 1880. Cheer the hero, hiss the villain, and shed a tear for our maid in distress. Our players wouldn’t mind at all if you hummed along on a pretty ballad or two. This is all before the TV set, the radio, the movies: it derived from a combination of the old, sentimental drama and bits of contemporary Variety–the ancestor of Vaudeville. So drop your sophisticated world of today, satiated and jaded with too much knowingness, and return with us to an era when the issues of good and evil, Virtue and Vice did not seem at all confused. Who knows–you might even develop a craving for oysters-

P.S. Last program of the summer–grateful thanks to our producers–the Board of Directors, the Boal Barn Summer Staff, our wonderful corps of apprentices (“the apprenti”) , and the fine people of Centre County who made up our casts and crews for the summer’65 season. It has been a good year for Boal Barn and we thank all of you for your attendance. Great expansion and beautification plans are afoot for next season. Why not join up and join the fun?

Have a good year!

Warren Burns

The Cast

(in order of appearance)

Gideon Bloodgood	William Miller
Badger	Joe Servello
Captain Fairweather	Virge Neilly
A Guide	Tom Doerr
Mr. Puffy	Bill Johnston
Alida Bloodgood	Kay Gamble
Edwards	Virge Neilly
Mark Livingstone	Lawrence Pharo
Lucy Fairweather	Kay Shadoan
Bridget	Sue Sassaman
Kathleen	Kay Shaffer
Moira	Debbie Gamble
Mrs. Fairweather	Helen Hungerford
Mrs. Puffy	Anne Snyder
Mexicans	Tom Doerr George Garber
Three Maids	Debbie Gamble Sue Sassaman Kay Shaffer
Police Officer	Harold Thomen
Tourists The Poor Guests and Delmonico’s Porters ETC.	Lillian Brillhart Debbie Gamble Carol Pharo Luanna Russell Sue Sassaman Kay Shaffer Tom Doerr George Garber Harold Thomen Dick Porter Geoff Harris Charlene Rutschky Nancy Lawther Marti Lindsay
Pianist	Marilyn Whitmire
Assisting the Pianist	Cathy Yost Linda Swanger Connie Kean