Gilbert & Sullivan's THE MIKADO 1969 | Lamplighters Music Theatre

THE

LIMPLIGHTIB~ SAN FRANCISCO'S MUSIC THEATRE

Winners1969Awardfromthe SanFrancisco Sponsors

present

An Entirely New Production of

by

GILBERT '& SULLIVAN

Presentation 2350 TURK STREET

(Just West of Masonic)

eatre San Francisco

or, THE TOWN OF TITIPU AN OPERETTA IN TWOACTSBY

SIR WILLIAM GILBERT & SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN DIRECTED

BY ANN MAC NAB

SETS DESIGNED ANDBUILTBY LARRY

KLEIN

COSTUMES DESIGNED ANDEXECUTED BY RICHARD

BARULICH

MAKEUP LESLIE

SHERMAN

LIGHTING DESIGNED ANDINSTALLED BY RICHARD

GARRETSON

WIGS DESIGNED ANDEXECUTED BY JUDITH

DISBROW

PIANIST WILLIAM

VENDICE

-··., iH D R A M A T I S P E R S O N . AB },~·-THE MIKADO OF JAPAN Walter Matthes ,_.., William Neil NANKI-POO, His SoN Michael Epstein':• , ,_.., Orva Hoskinson KO-KO, LORDHIGH EXECUTIONER OF TITIPU Norman Roberts ,_.., Gilbert Russak POOH-BAH, LORDHIGH EVERYTHING ELSE Eugene Bartlett PISH-TUSH, A NoBLE LoRD Robert Cortez ,_.., John Vlahos 0 YUM-YUM Merrilee Nolan'... ,_.., Peggy Overshiner 0 PITTI-SING Marie Goff ,,...._,Ann Mac Nab PEEP-BO° Valda Claire ,_.., Carol Eaton 0 THREE SISTERS, wARDSOF KO-KO KA TISHA, AN ELDERL y LADYIN LOVEWITHN ANKI-POO June Wilkins CHORUS OF SCHOOL GIRLS AND NOBLES: Rita Ballard* - Linden Bauman - Stephen Bauman - Dan Beaulieu'' Mary Belton - Nancy Bentley' ... - Frank Childers - Tom Cook' ...

Robert Decker - Steve Detrick'' - Meg Duncan , Mary Flythe* - Christopher Focht - Ann Garfield - Jan.Greuner Tom Jenson':• - Gunhild Nilsson* - Roger Pierson - Cheryl Dee Pitner Bobbie Renquist':• - Clair Scott':- - Beverly Snyder~· - Jim Stuart~· James Talley>:· - Robert Tinker - Bruce Underhill' ... - Mildred Vinson William Wiggins, - Betty Wilton

GUARDS

COOLIES: David Ames - John Blythe - Ron Cramer Richard Johnston - Louis Rodrigues - Claude Santo Domingo UNDERSTUDIES: Nanki-Poo: Frank Childers Katisha: Elizabeth Goodrich/ Jan Greuner AND

,:. FIRST APPEARANCE

WITH

THE

LAMPLIGHTERS

KoKo's Garden in the Town of Titipu.

SETTING:

Intermission of Fifteen Minutes between Acts.

Tonight's Cast is Programmed in the Lobby.

PRODUCTION AND TECHNICAL STAFF SPENCER BEMAN GENERAL

ORV A HOSKINSON AR TIS TIC DIRECTOR

MANAGER

Technical Director Arthur Sullivan Stage Manager Bob J. York · Box Office Manager John Salerno Assisted by David Lujan, Jess Brown, Bette Rogers Publicity Kalmar Associates, San Francisco Photography .

Elwing Studios, San Carlos . Ronald 0. Cramer Company Wardrobe Master Additional Set Painting James Scott Properties .

Meg Duncan Rehearsal Secretary . . Linden Bauman Costumes: · Wardrobe Master & Asst. to the Designer Ronald Cramer Construction Mary Belton, John Blythe, Meg -Duncan, Nan Gamache, Carolyn Graham, Virginia Helton, Valerie Howard, Cheryl Dee Pitner, Norman Roberts, Jeanne Santo Domingo, Jean Seabrook Dressers Louis Rodrigues f5 Mary Anne McCarthy · P_eterMiller f5 Charles R eiter Stage Hands & Electricians Accountant Fred Miller Mailings Jess Brown f5 Marilyn Kopsinis Reproduction . Ivan Marts Printing The 'Bindweed 'Press

Cast subject to Change without Notice.

No

SMOKING PERMITTED IN THIS ScHooL BUILDING. You MAY SMOKE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING ONLY.

In Response to Numerous Requests, Latecomers will not be seated until a Suitable Break in The Performance. Please let The Ushers seat you.

IN EMERGENCY

-

WALK -

DO NOT RUN -

TO THE NEAREST EXIT.

It is Forbidden to Photograph or R ecord without Prior Written Approval.

Repertoire

to

Spring,

1971

SPRING 1970 LAMPLIGHTERS

THE

PROUDLY ANNOUNCE

THEIR

PRODUCTION

OF

LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS · under the direction of George Felker III, opening in the spring of 1970 at Presentation Theatre; This rol'licking musical was first produced in London a few years ago, and has since been performed happily at Ashland, and Stanford. Recently written, it is set in the style of the 1700's, and has received marvelous reviews.

SUMMER

1970

COX AND BOX

BY BERTRAND

& SULLIVAN

ROSENSTEIN & GILDENSTERN

BY GILBERT

TRIAL BY JURY

BY GILBERT

& SULLIVAN

In response to hundreds of letters we bring back our famous Trial by Tttry and Cox and Box; and to give you a truly remarkable evening, we will stage the hilarous comedy iru one act which Sir William wrote.

FALL

1970

PIRATES OF PENZANCE Our well-known Pirates of Penzance will be on the boards with the Pirate Band spiriting away Major Stanley's daughters and the doughty Policemen thwarting them in the best Gilbertian 'English tradition.

WINTER-SPRING

1971

DIE FLEDERMAUS An entirely new production of Die Fledermaus, which was so brilliantly directed by Orva Hoskinson, our Artistic Director . He will direct it again, in his own English version of this delightful Viennese comedy with its beautiful music.

THE FOURTH

THE

OF THESE GREAT

1969

SATURDAY EVENING,

PRODUCTIONS!

CHAMPAGNE D ECEMBER

6TH,

1969,

GALA AT 8:30 P.M.

All the members of our Choruses ~ All your favorite Principals The great Gilbert & Sullivan songs from many of the operas

CIHIAMIPAGNIE * for Everyone at the Finale!

ALL TICKETS $5 Our Box Office will take orders before the production and at intermission. Tickets also available at Macy's, Stockton at O'Farrell (397-7447) and TICKETRON.

,:.Soft drinks for those who prefer them and those under 2 I.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Adri an McNamara, Jr. • President Spencer S. BemaO!III - Executive Vice President John Vlahos - Secretary Cha-rles Fracchia • Treasurer Gregoire Calegari, Ann Mac Nab, ·A. John Latona • Trustees

CONTRIBUTORS THE LAMPLIGHTERS have been selected as the recepient of the 1969 • 1970 San Francisco Sponsors Award, and we are proud to receive this honor. Present plans are for this money to go to an entirely new production.

This Award will tremendously benefit The ,Lamplighters. Yet we will always have to continue our efforts to bridge the gap between production costs and box office ,income.

We still need six new 1lighting instruments {$125) each, a new table saw ($250), a new router ($75) and a new sabre saw ($90). All contributions received from The Mikado and The Gala will go to help purchase these.

As in the past, your contributions are thus always used: for •permanent improvements and perpetuated through the theatrical generations who use this equipment to create new productions. tA. year's membership is: Regular $10; Sustaining $25; Supporting $50; Donor $100; Benefactor $1,000; Life Patron $2,500 or more. Contributions are entirely deductible from bol.ihState and Federal tax returns; names are included in our programs.

Please send your contributions to The Lamplighters Production Center, 68 Julian Avenue, San Francisco 94103.

LIFE PATRONS:

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Robinson; Anonymous; Anonymous.

PAITRONS: Mrs. Margaret C. Rosenblatt.

SUSTAINING: Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Stanford Baker; Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Charles Elliott; Miss Marian Huntington; Mr. & Mrs. Hobart Lovett; •Alberta M. Shiras; Robert E. Zang.

REGULAR: W. L. Bishop; G. Bowers, Leliah B. Cain; Mr. & Mrs. James Cason; Mrs. W. K. Elledge; Mr. & Mrs. J.B. Frankel; William D. Grishaw; Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hayes; G. Ketron; Mr. & Mrs. Earl E. Larson; Mrs A!llanMori; Jerry & Eleanor Mitchell, Mr. & Mrs. WiHiam J. Nelligan, Obie Oberhausen; Mr. & Mrs. Daniel T. Ruggles; Miss Jessie L. Saunders; Mr. & Mrs. H. Russell Saunders; Wayne Sichi, Teubert Smith, William & Helene Whitson; Barbara Garfinkle; Marian Gould.

THE LAMPLIGHTERS is the performing company of the OPERAWEST FOUNDATION,. a non-profit tax-exempt corporation. The Lamplighters Business Office and Production Center is at 68 Julian Avenue, San Francisco ( 415) 621-2112.

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