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Elmira Little Theatre productions season by season.
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1950s

June 1953
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Written by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Ruth and Michael Sinclair

CAST

Michael Sinclair as John Worthing, J.P.
Henry Winston ... Algernon Moncrieff
Ernest Friedman ... The Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.
Aaron Stein ... Merriman
Ralph Thompson ... Lane
Shirley Bickford ... Honourable Gwendolyn Fairfax
Betty Haase Smith ... Lady Bracknell
Frances Starkey ... Cecily Cardew
Faye Epstein ... Mis Prism
     
CREW
Production Manager ... Nayte Schoonover
Stage Manager ... Faye Epstein
Production Design ...

Ruth and Michael Sinclair

Set Construction ...

Stuart Zimmerman

Set Construction Crew ...

Ralph Thompson, Donald E. Luden

Properties ...

Betty Rothermel, Sally Rundell, Helen Luden

Wardrobe ...

Kay Stowell, Lucy VanDuzer, Joyce VanDuzer, Anna May Babcock

Make-Up ...

Fran Hart, Helen Butcher, Margaret Constantine, Ernest Friedman

Lighting ...

R. Thorne Ellis

Sound ... Fred Stover
House Manager ...

James E. Graner

Ushers ...

Olive Casson, Chairman
Gloria Bystrom, Alta Blackwell, Marion Grove, Pearl Sayers, Mary Campbell, Jane Dawson, Erma Marx, Ann VanDerlip, Ann Graner, Edith Lee, Isabel Ridall, Charlotte Tuberty

Program Editor ...

John K. Diveny

Program Business Manager ...

Betty Craine

     
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Volunteers of America, truckinh
Crusade & Smith, paints
Robert M. DeGarmo, chaise lounge
James Hemenway, tea wagon
Chester M. Howell Jr., tandem bicycle
Schoonover's, silverware and costume accessories
Light's Bake Shop
Engravings by Herman Leupelt
James Steck, photography

 

 

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"Notes of a Twenty Year History"
(1964)

"A Researched History of Elmira Little Theatre, Inc."
(2004)

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