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1947/1948 School Year

Play Title: The Pirates of Penzance

Author: Gilbert & Sullivan
Dates Performed: Dec. 4-8, 1947
Director: Cecil E. Birder
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: ND/SMC Savoyards

Cast List
:
Frederic: Bob Ruetz
King: Roy O'Neill
Ruth: Elaine Bruck
Major General: Thorson
Mabel: Felicia Schroeder
King's aide: John Commerford
Sergeant of Police: Bill Mills
Other speaking roles: Frances Hansen, Petrina Mitchell, and Peg Gardner
Girls' Chorus: Elaine Korth, Geraldine Posvic, Nancy Shanahan, Betty Nolan, Marie Nussbaum, Pat Moran, Marilyn Brennan, Rosemarie Nemeth, Gretchen McCaffrey, Rosemond Feltes, Sophie Karras, Marian Wheeland, Bernadette Lang, Mary Caryl Dale, Geneal Kramer, and Mary Fleming
Pirates and Policemen: Lou Almasi, Larry Metcalf, Harry Reich, Dave Schoen, Victor Smith, Bob Hochman, Dudley Birder, Norv Geier, Howard, Hornung, Richard Finnegan, Don Curran, Bill Danzi, Bob Schlosser, John Laughlin, Bob Duffy, Bud Marshall, and George Jones.

Notes:

Source(s) 1948 Dome, p. 389
The Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 89, Dec. 5, 1947, pp. 9, 32.

Play Title: It Ain't Hay

an all-student production
Student Authors: Joseph Herrington and Verne Kelley
Dates Performed: May 18, 1948
Director: James Beymer
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: ND/SMC Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Music and Lyrics: Edward Cashman
Set Design: Donald Birren
Choreography: Leonard Zaller
Costume Design: Dudley Birder
Lighting: Robert Harris
Special Effects: John Harrington
Orchestrations: Francis Malzone and Richard Eykholt

Cast List

Pete: John Commerford
Jed: John Barnett
Parson Doddard: Gene Jones
Jesse Simpson: Robert Ruetz
Smokey Carver: Roy O'Neill
Jake Hicks: Ralph Thorson
J. B. Cartwright: William Mills
Daphne Cartwright: Beverly Watson
Carlyle Stoneham: Gerard Hekker
Edie Morgan: Lois Lenon
Ma Carver: Terese Lazzara
Lily Mae: Joanne Lunsford
Reporter: William Donze
Photographer: Richard Gorman
Parker: Patrick McAteer
Sheriff: Norbert Geier
Blackie: John Barnett
Senator Hiram Q. Fishbait: Jerome Farron
Eugene Dennison: John Laughlin
Skovitsky: Guy Perenich
Someone: Verne Kelley
1st Model: Mary Barany
2nd Model: Joanne Jankowski
Slim: Dudley Birder
Sam: Lawrence Metcalf
Fleming: Philip Finnegan
Wild Bill: Louis Almasi
Income Tax Man: James Beymer
Chorus: Mary Sue Guthrie, Carol Guendling, Loretta Anderlohr, Rosemary Hardig, Marge Singler, Rose Panzica, Rosemarie Walsh, Dorothy Koches, Dona Wilson, Len Costantini, Paul Owens, Joseph Owens, Gerry Kerus, Charles Pendarvis, Harry Reich, Howard Hornung and Dan Huntoon
Dance Ensemble: Loretta Anderlohr, Marge Singler, Mary Barany, Carol Guendling, Bill MacDevitt, Gerald Lubin, Gene McGuire, Leonard Zaller
Orchestra: Paul Folchi, Edward Ciprus, William Cullen, Richard Eykholt, Carl Apone, Robert Mitchell, Myron Mall, Anthony Ortiz, Garret Bolger, David O'Leary, James Doyle, Robert Lieberens, Philip Slavick, Joseph Nauman, Pat Del Grande, Ron Myrter, William Mahoney, John Garype, Charles Biondo, Carole Deitz, Otto Kopp, Robert Nuner, Ward McCabe, Joseph Harrison, Robert Monacelli, Henry Ketterer, Margery Farrington, Norma Jean Steinhilber, William McMillan, William Braun, William Gibbons

Production Staff

General Manager: Gerard Hekker
Stage Manager: Matthew Kehoe
Assistant Stage Manager: Robert Harris
Assistant Musical Directors: Ralph Thorson, Francis Malzone
Director of Orchestra: William Cullen
Set Construction & Painting: Gene Jones, Louis Reich, Dudley Birder, Robert Harris, John Whaley, Lawrence Metcalf, Francis Green and Philip Finnegan
Properties: Louis Reich, Matthew Kehoe and John Harrington
Makeup Coordination: James Beymer, Francis Crovo
Publicity: William Halligan and Travis Marshall
"Scholastic" Representative: Kenneth Thoren
Head Ushers: Jim Hennessey, Randy McNally, John Wilkinson, Bryan Kennedy
Bob O'Connell

Notes

Source(s) Copy of program received from University of Notre Dame Archives.