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| Date: | 11 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the East High School play cast for "Tomorrow the World" a story of a Nazi boy in the United States, standing left to right: Robert Cnare, the Ge... |
| Date: | 10 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Three actors in costume, portraying pre-Revolutionary New England characters in the drama, "The Devil's Disciple" by George Bernard Shaw. The actors, part ... |
| Date: | 10 25 1949 |
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| Description: | The Madison Blackfriars Guild is shown rehearsing a scene from Tennessee Willliams' play," The Glass Menagerie". Here, Laura (Patricia McKune) collapses a... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | West High School students in costume for "Charley's Aunt." Left to right: John Lovell, Joan Miles, Bob Carpenter and Mimi Mackin. |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Children participate in a puppet show as part of the "open house" of the Shorewood Hills summer children's recreational program. |
| Date: | 05 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Five women in costume, acting in a scene from "Gay Nineties," a skit written by Lorraine Rucker for the Drama and History departments of the Madison Woman'... |
| Date: | 10 23 1953 |
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| Description: | Four costumed actors rehearse for the "Periwinkle Review", an original showboat review sponsored by the Drama Department of the Woman's Club. |
| Date: | 01 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Students at Madison Edgewood High School act out a scene from the play "The Marriage Proposal". Peggy Forster and Michael Kretschman are in the scene and d... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The former Broadway smash hit, "Glass Menagerie," was presented at the tenth anniversary program of the Madison Youth Summer Theater at the Washington Scho... |
| Date: | 07 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Professor Fredrick Buerki, technical director of the Wisconsin Union theater and designer of the new playhouse's stage facilities, cleaning a table on stag... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 10 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 11 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 19 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 16 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 07 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 14 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 03 1961 |
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| 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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