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1953/1954 School Year

Play Title: Kiss Me Kate

Author: Cole Porter
Dates Performed: not found
Director: Professor John Tumpane
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List


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Source(s) 1954 Dome, pp. 304-305

Play Title: Three Men on a Horse

Author: John Cecil Holm and George Abbot
Dates Performed: 23-26 October 1953
Director: John Tumpane
Technical Director: John Kirby
Stage Manager: Marion Leszczynski
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List
Irwin: Jerry Godwin
Audrey, Irwin's wife: Rhody Oppenheim
Mabel (created by Shirley Booth on Broadway): Denni Egry
Gamblers: Patsy: Marshall Desmond, Charlie: John Kent, Frankie: Joe Brennan, Harry the Bartender: Tom Bloomer
Mr. Carver, Irwin's boss: Dick Gerken
Elevator Boy: Ed Sexauer
Clarence: James Ryan
Swedish Maid: Hildegarde Vargyas
Others: Orlean Bick, John Meagher, John Lester, Richard Six, Charles Menk


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Source(s) 1954 Dome, p. 304

Play Title: The Lady's Not for Burning

Author: Christopher Fry
Dates Performed: not found
Director: not found
Stage Manager: unknown
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List


Notes:

Source(s): 1954 Dome, p. 304; Scholastic 95:4 (October 16, 1953), 8; Scholastic 95:5 (October 23, 1953), 11.

Play Title: Hands Across the Sea

- a one-act play
Author: not found
Dates Performed: not found
Director: not found
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

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Source(s) 1954 Dome, p. 304

Play Title: Marriage Proposal

- a one-act play
Author: not found
Dates Performed: not found
Director: not found
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theater

Cast List


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Source(s) 1954 Dome, p. 304

Play Title: Portrait of a Madonna

- a one-act play
Author: not found
Dates Performed: not found
Director: not found
Stage Manager: not found
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre

Cast List


Notes:

Source(s) 1954 Dome, p. 304
1954 Summer

Play Title: Seven Nuns at Las Vegas

Author: Natalie E. White
Dates Performed: July 25-26, 1954
Director: Natalie E. White
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The University Theatre
Venue: Washington Hall

Artistic Staff

Set Design: Rolland Stair, CSC
Costume Design: Sister Mary Roman, SSND
Production Manager: Sister M. Judine, OSF
Assistant Director: Sister M. Estelle, OSB

Cast List

(July 25 Matinee & July 26 Evening- Religious Only)
Sister Rose: Sister Rodricia, CSFN
Sister Edna: Sister Hubert, FCSP
Sister Columba: Sister Mary Daniel, CSJ
Sister Felicitas: Sister Mary Roman, SSND
Sister Maria: Sister Ancilla Marie, SL
Sister Anne: Sister M. Catherine of Siena
Sister Frances: Sister M. Kathleen, RSM
Reverend Mother: Sister M. Judine, OSF
Mr. Edelman: Brother Harold Thielen, CSC
A Priest: Rolland Stair, CSC
Peaches: Anne Barnes
Boots: Beverly Mann
Baby: May Jane Schoen
(July 25 Evening- Open to the Public)
Sister Rose: Terri Steinhoffer
Sister Edna: Phyllis Beck
Sister Columba: Eleanor Kaskey
Sister Felicitas: Lee Wermuth
Sister Maria: Mary Fischer
Sister Anne: Sylvia Schneider
Sister Frances: Mary Ann Williams
Reverend Mother: Hildegarde Vargyas
Mr. Edelman: Gene Kaskey
A Priest: John Noland
Peaches: Anne Barnes
Boots: Beverly Mann
Baby: May Jane Schoen

Production Staff

Stage Manager: Sister M. Madeleine, OP
Assistant to Scenographer:
Setting: Rolland Stair, CSC, Brother Harold Thielen, CSC, Dudley Birder, Charles Plogman
Lighting: Charles Plogman
Hand Props: Sister M. Jeannine, CSSF, Sister M. Judine, OSF:
Sound: Sister M. Estelle, OSB, Sister M. Eustasia, SSJ
Program Design: Sister Mary Roman, SSND

Notes

Source(s) Copy of Original Program, University of Notre Dame Archives.