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-JUNE 29 JULY 4, 1965

Guy S. Little, Jr.

PRESENTS

TAB HUNTER

"MISTER ROBERTS"

By THOMAS EGGEN and JOSHUA LOGAN

With

VINCE DE DARlO

Ralph Foody, Hal Frank, Arlene Drake, I.W. Klein

Richard ~tadelmann,Hugh Kennedy Tirrdl, Lowell Christy

DIRECTED BY JOHN KELSO I

SCENERY AN.D LIGHTING DESIGNED BY PAUL HOFFMAN

I ENTIRE PRODUCTION UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. LITTLE
CAST
Lieutenant (JG) Roberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAB HUNTER
Doc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H A L FRANK
Dowdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HUGH KENNEDY TIRRELL
The Captain .................................................... RALPH FOODY
lnsigna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETER ROSS
Mannion ......................................................DARRELL RUHL
Lindstrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL FECHT
Stefanowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .RICHARD STADELMANN
Wiley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BILL HADDAD
Sehlemmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRED HAHN
Reber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ROBERT BURTON
Ensign Pulver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIMCE DE DARlO
Dolan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I.W. K L E l N
Gerhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOWELL CHRISTY
Lieutenant Ann Girard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARLENE DRAKE
Shore Patrol Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT LARK
Seamen, Firemen and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RICK SMITH,
KEN DE DARIO, MICKEY RONEY, PAT BORDERS

SCENE

Aboard the U. S. Navy Cargo Ship, A K 601, operating i n the
back areas o f the Pacific

Time: A few weeks before V-E Day u n t i l a few weeks before V-J Day.

There W i l l be a 10 Minute Intermission Between Acts

-N o Smoking I n The Theatre

No Pictures Please Cameras Not Permitted in Theatre

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR MR. L I T T L E ...... Lee York

a..n.d..P..u Kennedy Tirrell
Production Stage Manager. .Otto L. Schlesinger ..............Public Relations

Program Editor
........Assistant Stage Manager.. ohn Economos blicity
Assistant to the Producer t i n c e De Dario Hugh
Executive S.C.e.co.r-.eO.ta.rdr.yi.n.a.t.o.r................. Dee Bradley
...........Prooertv Bill Haddad Anorentice Darrell Ruhl
Mary Phillips, LXrarian Paula Francis
~ropertr
eCs o..-O..r.d.i.n.a.to..r.......... Pat Berlingeri Production Assistants.. .Fred Hahn. Peter Ross,
....Children's Theatre Director Robert Lark. Paula Francis. Karren Dille.
.........LBiogxhtiOnfgficTeec.h.n.i.c.i.a.n..... Lowell Christy Rick Smith. Pamela Hall. Patricia Ber-
Laura Rambaldi lin eri. Bill Fecht, Bonita Chambers, Abi-
Sharon Spencer, Alma aif Spreyer, Laura McMurray. Allana
Smith, Paula Noble, Pat Bennett. Inis Little
Penny Moses %odd, Wattenberg, Robert Burton,
......National Reoresentative Flovd Ackerman Donna &?=ssmer. Karen Fisher. Jon Abar-

Costume ~o : o.r.d..in..a.to..r..a.n.d...... Rod Fernandee banel, Blake Anderson, Rhonda- Day. Rikki
Hair Styles Jo Klieman.

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Lovington, Ill. PAUL S. HOFFMAN
Scenic Desi-gner
Always
Courteous Service Paul Hoffman has designed scenery and light-
ing for many productions at Milwaukee's Swan
"Your Haalth Is Ow Buzi~wsd' Theatre including Light Up The Sky with William
Bendix. The Moon Is B l u e with Jack Kelly. The
NEXT DOOR TO THEATRE Pleasure Of H i s Company with L k d a Darnill and
Critic's Choice with Dennis O'Keefe. Mr. Hoffman
ALSO BETHANY was a scenic artist a t the famous Berkshire Play-
house: he has also been associated with the Hawk-
Bofors, At Intermission or After Show hill Plavhou* in Wisconsin. While worklne on his
MFA in theatre a t Ohio University, he- was a
SODA FOUNTAINS graduate assistant in technical theatre. Paul will be
designing the scenfry :.lls a:ltnmer beginning with
Sullivan 3200 Bethany 153
- -Dracula and throuehout the season clo8ine with

I r m a La Doucr.

HARRIET LEIGH
Choreographer

Harriet Leigh has appeared on Broadway as
an actress and dancer in First Impressions with
Hermione Gingold, Rodger and Hsmmerstein's Me
And Jzrliet and Gemttemen Prefer Blondes. T V
audiences have seen her work on Voice of Fire-
stone and in stock, she has ap eared as Maggie

driin Brigadoon, Mairie in The J o y Friend. An

body's in West Side Story and Msggie in Cat
A Hot Tin Roof, among many other roles. Off-
Broadway. she has choreographed Come Morning,
Streets of Confusion, Oediplu R e x and Wizard of
01. Miss Leigh has been choreographer and di-
rector a t theatres such as Town and Country in
Rochester, N. Y. and the Red Barn in Saugatuck,
Michigan.

OTTO L. SCHLESINGER
Stage Manager

Mr. Schlesinger served as stage manager and
actor at Mr. Little's spring season of Piccolo Play-
house in Joliet. Mr. Schlesinger brings with him
a n impressive background of classical roles such
as Brendel in Roswrsirolm. Lovewitt in The Al-
chemist. Tattle in Love For Love and Landolfo in

Enrico IV. which he recently did a t Chicago's new

Harper Theatre. Otto appeared aa Weber in
Gypsy with Julie Wilson a t the Dorchester Theatre
and as Lt. Commander Hardcastle in Watch I t
Sailor at Shady Lane Playhouse. At Piccolo Play-
house, he was seen a s Oscar in Mary. Mary with
Rosemary Prinz. This season in Sullivan, he will
be featured in King of Hearts, B u s Stop and
DracuIa

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. . .About the Staff

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Sally Gifft i s another new addition to the Little Sullivan, Illinois
Theatre's staff this season. This past winter. Miss
Giff,'s costumes have been viewed off-Broadway
in p-oductions of B y Jupiter, T h e Servants of Two
Masters and Suddenly Last Summer. Last summer
a t The Front Theatre in Memphis, she created the
costumes for My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees and
The Country Wife. At the new Morris Theatre in
N. J.. Sally h a s just completed work on TJIC ~ m -
aginary Invalld. Miss G ~ f f treceived her BFA a t
Cornell University and was on the staff there as
costume dwigner from 1959 to 1961. The many off-
Broadway productions for which she has designed
the costumes include The Awakening of Spring.
Billygoat Eddie, P l a i n and Fancy. God. M a s And
You, Baby. The M a g ~ cFlute and The Devil's Dm-
ciple.

BILL HUDNET and VlNCE DE DARlO as+*

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Little for the opening of Piccolo Playhouse this
past Februar in Joliet. A former student at the SULLIVAN, ILLINOIS
University 0 7 Maryland. Mr. Hudnet hails from
Baltimore. H e ha. appeared a t various theatres in
the Washington, D. C. area and was featured in
The Happiest Years with David Nelson and in Love
And K ~ s s e swith the P a t O'Brlens this winter a t
Piccolo Playhouse. Mr. De Darlo is a native of
Indiana, but received his theatre education a t the
Pasadena Playhouse in California. Vince spent a
summer a t the Perry Mansfield School in Colorado
and had three years of little theatre work while
in the army. His roles have included Mike in
Sunday I n New York. Luke in Look Homeward.
Angel and Freddie in Love And K ~ s e swith the
O'Briens.

As assistants to Mr. Little, Bill and Vince are
involved with box office. promotion. props. and
scenery, costuming, casting, advertising. and general
office work. Later this season. Bill will tour a s
Hero in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum and Vince will tour with Mr. Little's
production of I r m l a Dorcce.

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Roducer Guy S. Little, Jr. became interested in Dante's Italian Village
theatre when he was five years old and saw a
touring production of Tbe Merry Widow. Wbcn 745 E. Cerro Godo
he was sixteen. he won a scholarship to the X m e , OPEN 7 NIGHTS WEEKLY
New Hampshire Theatre and made his debut them
in 1911. I n 1912 and 1913 he returned to the East Featuring
to appear at the Gateway Musical Playhouse near
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Opera star% Guy spent two years in New York
studying a t the American Theatre Wing and tak- -906 E. Wood S t Decatur, Ill.
ing graduate work a t Columbia University. In 1957
he returned to his native Sullivan and opened The -Free Parking Lot Convenient Credit
Little Theatre-On The Square which is the only
professional theatre between the Chicago area and Quigle's
St. Louis. During the past eight summer seasons,
Mr. Little has preunted over seventy musicala Fashions For The Home
ranging from Oklahoma! to My Fair Lady in addi-
tion to plays featuring tuch stars as Joe E. Brown, Furniture-Carpet-Draperies
Marjorie Lord. Margaret Truman. Pat O'Brien.
Eddie Bracken, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Pal- 329 N. Main-Decatur
mer, Margaret Whiting, Linda Darnell. Marie Wil- 1621 Chad&ton-Mam0n

non. David Nelson and Rosemary Prinz. h a t wm-
mer, Mr. Little presented a successful touring pro-
duction of Stop The World-I Warn To Get Off
and this season, he has booked his productions of
A Funny T h h ~Happened On The Way To Tbe
Forum and Irma La D a c e throughout the country.
The Piccolo PIayhou~ein Joliet where Mr. Little
opened a spring lesson this paat March was an
outstanding succws and will re-open in early July
and continue on a year-round basis. Guy met his
wife. Jcrili--. Chicago girl, in Miami when they
both were studying theatre. They have been mar-

ried eleven years and have two children. Vanessa
who is nine and Sean who is three.

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.About the Swff .

--L-% JQHN K I W Little's theatre in Sullivan, and in the summer of
. . ,, 1 1959 managed to play 18 charaetera in ton d w w r
_I
The following winter found him in St. Louia. where
Dfmchf he joined the staff of the f a m d C m U l Palace in
Gaslight Square. During several winter and aurmner
John gelw return.
aeaaona there, he a p p e a ~ din a nti.tl of mlea, was
lor hia fifth aummer in in charge of prodnction f a A CM~OUEJvenin# r i t b
GYPW Row h e , a night club aerier featuring Jack
Sullivan after directing E. Leonard and Irwin C o w , and at-d revues
featuring Barbre Stroiund and The Smothers
the premiere *awn of Brothers. For the part u v e n l m s he haa re-
turned to the Little T h u t r e from New York, where
The Piccolo Playhow he has been on the stag e I ea4y Library Theatre
and The New York Sltahmsp.lre Beatival in C.n-
in Joliet. Ha began his tral Park. I n Sullivan, he h a appeared u Hinea in
Pajama Game. Ali Haklm in Okldemp!, Sol Sch-
theatrical career a t the warts in The Tender Trap. and The M a p r in Tbe

age of five with a song Music Man, and haa d i m t e d Edward Everott Hor-
ton, Linda Darnell. Mr. and &a. h t O'Brien,
and dance act and h t e r Rosemary R i m . Peter Palmer. David Nelwn and

toured with his own Jpne Blair, and Aan B. Daria.

full scale magic show.

The shift to theatre was

made during his under-

graduate day# at Illinois

Wuleyan University.

- After two aummer atock
uamna in Montana,
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. .Who's Who in the Cast as Dick Shawn Jack Carson Gyps
Nina Foch, ~ e ~ e v i e vaend L u i s dy?te"h':;
TAB HUNTER (Lieutenant (JG) Roberts) was appeared a t Pheasant Run Playhouse, St.
born in New York but moved to San Francisco Charles, 111. in Persona1 Appearance with Vivian
when he was only two and later settled in low- Blaine and in Mr. Roberts with Robert Wagner.
er California. After serving in the Coast Guard M r Foody was featured w ~ t hD a v ~ dNelson in
on the East and West Coasts he returned to The Happiest Years and Pat O'Brien in Love
California where he beran io ice skate in And Kisses a t the opening season of Mr. Little's
competition. H e made hTs screen debut with theatre in Joliet the Piccolo Playhouse, and
MacDonald Carey and Gail Russell in The with John carrahine in Dracula here in Sul-
Lawless in 1959. H e achieved stardom two years livan.
later when he was selected to play a ship-
wrecked marine opposite Linda Darnel1 In A R L E N E DRAKE (Lieutenant Ann Girard)
Island of Desire. Some of his films include was a student a t Goodman Theatre f ~ trhree
Battle Cry Track of The Cat The Sea Chase years. Her roles at that theatre included Bar-
The ~ u r n i r ; gHills. L a Fayette'~scadril1e. ~ a m i bara Allen in Dark Of The MOOG The Dau h-
Yankees. They Came to Cordura. The Pleasure ter in Six Characters I n Search of An ~ u t % o r
of H i s Company. and That Kind of Woman with and Ella in All God's Children Got Wings.
Sophia Loren. At present Mr. Hunter has three Arlene has just returned to the Chicago area
un-released films including The Loved Ones. from the West Coast where she was seen i n
T h e first of his many recordings, that of Young productions of Sunday I n New York and Com-
Love and Red Sails in The Sunset. sold more pulsion in Hollywood. This spring she was fea-
than a million copies. On Broadway he starred tured in The Happiest Years and Love And
in Tennessee Williams' latest play, The Milk Kisses at Mr. Little's J p l ~ e tTheatre, T h e PIC-
Train Doesn't Stop Here. This is his second colo Playhouse. I n addition to her talents as an
season in summer stock, having toured in the actress. Arlene is a popular model.
Tender Trap two summers ago.
RICHARD STADELMANN (Stefanowski)
He made his first television appearance in appeared at The Little Theatre for the first time
Fear Strikes Out and later starred in, among two seasons ago in Carnival and The Unsink-
others. Hallmark Hall of Fame and many Play- able Molly Brown. Before coming to Sullivan.
house 90's. For his performance in television's Richard has had an opportunity to do many
Portrait of A Murderer he was nominated for an different types of shows ranging from industrial
Emmy Award. For one sesson he conducted his shows to the operatic stage. Born in Chicago,
own serles, The Tab Hunter Show. Dick started his career in summer stock wrth
the New .York City Center Ooera Company
An accomplished horseman. Mr. Hunter owns during the11 Chicago seasons. H e went on to
several thorotizhbreds which he rides and shows perform with the Lyric Opera Compan of Cbi-
when time permits. cago and toured through 43 states a n d Canada.
H i s musical experience includes Leave It T O
VINCE D E DARIO (Ensign Pulver) is a Jane and Wonderful Town with Dody Goodman
native of Indiana but received his theatre educa- in Milwaukee. This summer Mr. Stadelmann
tion a t the Pasadena Playhouse in California. will also he a earing in Here's Love. and
Vince spent a summer a t the Perry Mansfield A Funny Thrng R p p e n e d O n The Way To Tbe
School in Colorado and had three years of little Forum.
theatre work while in the army. Last year in
Sullivan he appeared in all the musicals and The I. W. K L E I N (Dolan) toured with the Na-
Solid Gold Cadillac. This spring he helped Mr. tional Company of How T o Succeed I n Business
Little open his Joliet theatre, where Vince was Without Really Tryrng and has appeared in
later seen in Love And Kisses with Mr. and Mrs. several off-Broadwa shows. His summer stock
Pat O'Brien. Last week he played Carl, the bus credits include ~ i t t &Mary Sunshine a t Sharon,
driver i n Bus Stop. E a r l ~ e rthis season he also Conn. and a t Cornlng. N. Y., Take Her, Sba's
appeared in Sunday in New York. Mine and ~ n t e rLaughing. H e h a s also appeared
on T V in The Defenders and T h e Nurses. After
HAL FRANK (Doc) who has appeared in Drac- he leaves Sullivan he wi!l be doing Tbe Fan-
ula and Bus Stop is a versatile man with talents tasticks and A Funny Thing Happened On The
ranging from guitar playing to an acting job Way To The Forum a t Cape May, New Jersey.
a s a radio leprechaun. I n the middle of this
spectrum are four solid years of professional HUGH KENNEDY TIRRELL (Dowdy) is here
stock, commercials and voice-dubbing work all In Sullivan for his second .year, havin ap-
over the United States and Japan. In the past peared in The Sound of Music, M y F a i r s a d y .
Mr. Frank has worked with such stars a s The Pajama Game, and L o And Behold with
Jeanne Craine jn T h e Philadelphia Story, Marie Marie Wilson. A native of Buffalo,, N..Y., Hugh
Wilson In Solid Gold Cadillac and both Peter is a student at Northwestern Unlvers~tywhere
Palmer and Guy Mitchell in Guys And Dolls. he has played leading roles in nine productionu.
He was born in Chicago and graduated from He also appeared in six productions a t the
Goodman with a degree in directing. Williamstown Summer Theatre including Othello
and Becket. Hugh has been in the Northwestern
RALPH FOODY (The Captain) Sullivan Men's Glee Club for, three years and has sung
audiences will remember him for his fine per- with various orotorio groups in the Chicago
formances here last year with such stars a s area.
Rosemary Prinz, Eddie Bracken. David Nelson
and Marie W ~ l s o n .A native Chicagoan, he was
with Phyllis Diller in Happy Birthday at Dmry
Lane and has appeared with such headliners

Mr. Hunter's Complimentary 1965 Chevrolet Convertible
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CHILDREN'S THEATRE at 1:00 on Saturdays

Children--85c . . . . Adults--$1.00
"ALICE IN WONDERLAND" July 3, 10 and 17

"ROBIN HOOD" July 24, 31 and Aug. 7
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August 3-15 (2 weeks)

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S e p t 7-19 (2 weeks) S e p t 21-0ct 3 (2 weeks)
Sweetheart of a Mudca1I"
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