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Summer of the 17th Doll
Play
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Jan 22, 1958
Closing Date
Feb 15, 1958
Performances
29
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Open Date: Jan 22, 1958
Close Date: Feb 15, 1958
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
Theatres
Coronet Theatre
(Jan 22, 1958 - Feb 15, 1958)
Description
A drama in three acts and five scenes
Setting
The Time: Australian summer, the five-month lay-off holiday for sugar-cane workers. The Place: The home of Olive Leech and her mother, Emma, in a suburb of Melbourne.
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild
and
The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
; Produced by arrangement with
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
and
St. James's Players, Ltd.
Written by
Ray Lawler
Directed by
John Sumner
Scenic Design by
Anne Fraser
General Manager:
Peter Davis
; Company Manager:
Robert Alex Baron
Production Stage Manager:
John Cornell
; Stage Manager:
Alan North
; Production Supervisor:
Marvin Reiss
Press Representative:
William Fields
; Press Associate:
Walter Alford
,
Reginald Denenholz
and
Mae Lyons
; Production Associate:
Warren Caro
The Australian Elizabethan Theatre trust gratefully acknowledges the work done on its behalf by
Hartney Arthur
Ethel Gabriel
Emma Leech
Olive's mother
June Jago
Olive Leech
A barmaid
Ray Lawler
Barney Ibbot
A suger-cane cutter from Queensland
Fenella Maguire
Bubba Ryan
A young next door neighbor
Richard Pratt
Johnnie Dowd
A sugar-cane cutter
Madge Ryan
Pearl Cunningham
A widow and a barmaid at the same pub as Olive
Kenneth Warren
Roo Webber
A sugar-cane cutter (a foreman)
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild
and
The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson; S.N. Behrman; Elmer Rice; Robert E. Sherwood; Sidney Howard)
; Produced by arrangement with
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust
and
St. James's Players, Ltd.
Written by
Ray Lawler
Directed by
John Sumner
Scenic Design by
Anne Fraser
General Manager:
Peter Davis
; Company Manager:
Robert Alex Baron
Production Stage Manager:
John Cornell
; Stage Manager:
Alan North
; Production Supervisor:
Marvin Reiss
Press Representative:
William Fields
; Press Associate:
Walter Alford
,
Reginald Denenholz
and
Mae Lyons
; Production Associate:
Warren Caro
The Australian Elizabethan Theatre trust gratefully acknowledges the work done on its behalf by
Hartney Arthur
Ethel Gabriel
Emma Leech
Olive's mother
June Jago
Olive Leech
A barmaid
Ray Lawler
Barney Ibbot
A suger-cane cutter from Queensland
Fenella Maguire
Bubba Ryan
A young next door neighbor
Richard Pratt
Johnnie Dowd
A sugar-cane cutter
Madge Ryan
Pearl Cunningham
A widow and a barmaid at the same pub as Olive
Kenneth Warren
Roo Webber
A sugar-cane cutter (a foreman)
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