Behind the Stage Door of the Hampton Playhouse - 18th Season 1966


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-- 18TH SEASON 1966 --
1966 18th SEASON
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SHOWS
STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF
SOUND OF MUSIC
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED,
ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, (photo)
AFTER THE FALL
PAJAMA TOPS
THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS, (photo)
PEG 0' MY HEART (again)
TOBACCO ROAD (yet again), (photo)

CAST
John Patrick Carter
Katherine Helmond
Carvel Carter
Rena Roop
Ann Gardner
Ronald Rogers
Althea deForest
Rue McClanahan
Richard Kneeland
Louis Beachner
Cash Baxter
Olga Druce
George Axler
J. Frank Lucas
Peter DeMaio
Sarah Christie

DIRECTORS
James Albright
Alfred Christie
Louis Beachner

DESIGNERS
Sets - Robert Blackman
Lights - Bennet Avery

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

STAGE MANAGER
Bob Jeffords

CHOREOGRAPHER
James Albright

This season featured a mixture of everything ... popular musicals; STOP THE WORLD ..., SOUND OF MUSIC, AND A FUNNY THING ... Arthur Miller's AFTER THE FALL was a dramatic hit ... PAJAMA TOPS and THE IMPOSSIBLE YEARS delightful comedies..,PEG O'MY HEART and TOBACCO ROAD popular.

Peter DeMaio was Rue's husband at this time ... later in the season they both went to work together at Hartford Stage Company. Sylvia Harmon, a Portsmouth resident, had acted with Theatre-by-the-Sea when it was on Ceres Street. Donald Hassard and Marshall Williams played pianos, and Bill McLucas was on drums. The season featured such company members and apprentices as Jimmy Wittle, Gari Vari, Peter DeMaio, Don Coleman, Charlotte Costello, Roberta Callahan, Clay Johns, Amelia and Vincent Cigna, Dorothy Stradtman, and Karen Finlayson.

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