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1953
The Sixth Year: April 10 and 11, 1953
Producer: George Staininger
Director: Joe Sauers
Writers: Larry Clemmons and Alden Waite
Art Holt and The Verdugo Woodlands "Pops" Orchestra
Program/Poster Art: Rod Scribner
By Jill Benone:
The two night run was firmly established by the sixth year. The show was presented at Glendale College, in a prologue, intermission, an entre-acte, and fourteen-scene show.
At some point, the men started to want to be identified by name for each skit. In this program they are. Dancers wanted to be identified by name in a song/dance number "I’m Just A Little Petunia In An Onion Patch" where they played the onions. The costumes covered their faces. Sketches of these costumes have the name of each “onion” was stenciled on the back – “Joe”, “Sam”, or whatever.
The prologue seems to have been concerned with preparation, as scenes are titled "Students Preparing for a College Caper", "Filly Dillies Or Future Follies Dollies", "The Birth of a Notion", "Casting About" and two other introductory scenes. The intermission is titled "Lumbering On". According to the program, Fathers’ Follies of 1953 then opens with the Verdugo Woodlands “Pops” Orchestra, thirteen men strong. Alden Waite was the “Mess-ter” of Ceremonies, Ken White performed a skit called "Judge for Yourself", and Roland Grubb and Art Holt were "Two Yanks in the Woodlands".
The fourteen scenes following run the usual Follies gamut of skits, dances, and song numbers. The poster art indicates this is the show for which the belly-dance costumes were built, probably for Scene 13, titled “Belly Good”.
It’s a great compliment to the costume designers that those outfits lasted for appearances in the 70s and 80s.
The final skit, titled "Wel-Fare Well, Ladies" was undoubtedly "Pretty Girl".
There are ninety-six names listed as "Those Responsible." |
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