The Schaffner Players

candy pitch, when he saw her and said “Well it looks as if we have another little dolly here, does anyone wish to claim her?” Jeanie’s embarrassed mother retrieved her.

Jeanie babysat for Brant Davis while the company played in Unionville, Missouri, in 1967. She asked about joining the show the next summer.

The Davises gave her an audition at that time, and contacted her with an offer the following spring.

The 1968 season was the first year Jeanie trouped with the Schaffner Players. Her older brother, Stan, had trouped in 1957 and 1958 and she joined soon after graduating from high school.

Jeanie played in the orchestra, performed ingénue roles, and painted banners for the company through the 1978 season.

She continued with the show until the end of the 1978 season.

Veteran performer, Leo Lacey, died onstage during the August 8, 1968 performance in Shelbina, Missouri. Lacey was playing the role of an attorney counseling a couple in a divorce. He was seated at a table. When he did not respond to his cue, the company members first thought that he was overacting, by taking a long dramatic