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1941/1942 School Year

Play Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Author: William Shakespeare
Dates Performed: December 15, 16, 1941
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: ND/SMC Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Matthew A. Coyle, CSC
Choral Effects: Cecil Birder
Accompanist: William Arbuckle

Cast List

Sir John Falstaff: William M. Hickey
Fenton: Daniel Gentile
Shallow: Daniel Downey
Abraham Slender: Lyle Joyce
Ford: David J. Curtin
Page: Jerome F. Heinlein
Sir Hugh Evans: James Poinsatte
Doctor Caius: John Groeger
Host: George Uhl
Bardolph: John Henchy
Pistol: Phillip Steropoli
Nym: Griffith Allen
Robin: Francis Keenan
Peter Simple: Andrew McElroy
John Rugby: John Ford
Mistress Ford: Elizabeth Jankovits
Mistress Page: Mary Patricia Ahearn
Mistress Anne Page: Babara Louis Dolezel
Mistress Quickly: Pat Drain

Production Staff

Stage Manager: Alfred Oliver
Property Manager: Frederick Hoover
Costumes: Victor Golubski, Thomas Fagan
Makeup Coordination: Hugh Bell
Sound Effects: R.R. Flynn, L.C. Colleran:

Notes

Source(s) 1942 Dome, p. 281; Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives.

Play Title: The H. M. S. Pinafore

Author: Gilbert and Sullivan
Dates Performed: March 22 - 27, 1942
Director: Cecil Birder
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre Presents
The Notre Dame Savoyards

Cast List


Notes:

Source(s) 1942 Dome, p. 294
Summer, 1942

Play Title: Trial By Jury

Author: Gilbert and Sullivan
Dates Performed: July 22, 23, 24, 1942
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: Notre Dame Savoyards
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Director: Cecil Birder
Piano: Edward Everett Cashman
Accompanist: University Symphony Orchestra:

Cast List

The Learned Judge: David Curtin
The Plaintiff "Angelina": Joan Birder
The Defendant: Milenko Zorovich
Counsel for the Plaintiff: Edward Hoban
Usher: Kevin O'Toole
Foreman of the Jury: William Murrin
Bridesmaids: Misses June Anderson, Ruth Bambach, Margaret Callaway, Mary Lois Coquillard, Agnes Haney, Louise Holmgren, Marie Manuszak, Barbara and Marilyn Nelson
Jurymen: Robert Beck, Herbert Clark, Louis Colleran, John Coleman, John Donley, Francis Haley, James Monaghan, John Newall, William Murrin, Gerald O'Reilly, Thomas Schreiber, and Morris Wagner

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives; Special December, 1942 Issue of The Dome, pp. 160-161; The Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 76, July 24, 1942, p. 7.

Play Title: Scenes from Queen Elizabeth and Essex, Green Pastures, Progress, Of Thee I Sing, William Shakespeare's King Henry IV

Author: Various
Dates Performed: July 22, 23, and 24, 1942
Director: Father Matthew Coyle
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Summer Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Cast List

David Curtin: Griff Allen
Kevin O'Toole: Charles Kane
Andy McElroy: James McDonough
Daniel Downey: Lyle Joyce
Harold Zink: Dave Skory
John Ford: Elizabeth Jankovits

Notes:

Source(s) Special December, 1942 Issue of The Dome, pp. 160-161; The Notre Dame Scholastic, Volume 76, July 24, 1942, p. 7.