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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Shown in the foreground are Eric Peterson and Gail Canfield. Surveying the scene through the wi...
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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Pictured in rehearsal for the mystery comedy are Aleta Nelson, Mary Boyle and Paul Geisler, lef...
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West High School Presents the Play "The Bishop Misbehaves"

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: West High School presents the play "The Bishop Misbehaves". Members of the stage crew include, left to right: Lynn Hogan, Neal Ruedisili, Mike Schwartz, an...
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Theater Guild Opens Season

Date: 09 1959
Description: Carol Bryant, Robert Rancourt and Nancy Fowlkes act out a scene from "The Cold Wind and the Warm", the opening play of the Madison Theater Guild season pre...
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Central High School Play Production

Date: 11 11 1959
Description: Central High School actors rehearse for "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" to be shown in the school's auditorium. Holbert Hart is shown standin...
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We Saw You at St. James Rehearsal

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: St. James Catholic Theater participants collaborate on set construction for John Willard's play, "The Cat and the Canary." Left to right: Walter Kearns, B...
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Edgewood High School to Perform Lute Song

Date: 04 19 1960
Description: Costumed Edgewood High School students prepare to give the first of four performances of "Lute Song." Shown left to right are: Annette Letendre, Michael Li...
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Madison Youth Summer Theater Presents Tolstoy's "The First Distiller"

Date: 08 16 1960
Description: Madison Theater Guild's Youth Summer Theater presents the adult show Tolstoy's "The First Distiller" in the Washington School auditorium. The play is direc...
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Madison Theatre Guild

Date: 10 14 1960
Description: Ned Hoebel, president and chairman of the Governors for Madison Theatre Guild, poses with a stage model of the set for the Guild's production of "The Gazeb...
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YWCA Membership Drive Play

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: Five members of the cast of a play in honor of the YWCA membership committee standing on set. At left is Jeanette Thomas. In the window are, lower level, R...
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Beth Israel Players

Date: 03 14 1961
Description: The Beth Israel Players will present an original musical comedy, "Room for One More" in the auditorium of Beth Israel Center. Shown in a scene from the pla...
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Madison Theater Guild's Carousel

Date: 04 03 1961
Description: A young female cast member poses on a suspended merry-go-round horse as she watches a rehearsal of the musical show, "Carousel".
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Madison Theater Guild's "Look Homeward, Angel"

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" will be the last play of the 1960-61 season of the Madison Theater Guild. From left to right: the older brother Ben ...
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Irish Operetta at Madison Central High School

Date: 03 07 1961
Description: Jake Standifird (right, wearing a skirt) and Dawn Huett performing in a scene involving a switch of the sexes in the operetta "Bits of Blarney" which will ...
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University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club Show

Date: 03 30 1961
Description: The University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club Show returns to Madison from a six-day tour with its 1961 production, "Wonderful Show No.2." Haresfoot features ...
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University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club Show

Date: 03 30 1961
Description: University of Wisconsin Haresfoot Club Show returns to Madison from a six-day tour with its 1961 production, "Wonderful Show No.2." Haresfoot features in i...
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Edgewood High School's Production of "Brigadoon"

Date: 04 11 1961
Description: Five cast members in the Edgewood high school's production of "Brigadoon." Left to right are: Ellen Bowar, Modest Richards, Mary Ann Brodzeller, John Armst...
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Institute for Local History Annual Meeting

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Three people in a skit written by Forest A. Johnson, of Mt. Horeb, who wrote skits to be presented by the Mt. Horeb Centennial Pageant committee at the ban...
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Stage Rehearsal

Date: 10 02 1961
Description: Four members of the St. James Players rehearsing for their play, "Lo and Behold!" Shown in profile in the foreground looking at a script is the prompter Do...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff

Date: 02 06 1965
Description: Jerry Hjert, director and John Custer, technical director of the Madison Theater Guild, foreground, survey the ruins of the Madison Civic Opera's scenery a...

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