The Streets of New York
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
(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 |