Home Photo Galleries   • 2000-2009   • 1990-1999   • 1980-1989   • 1970-1979   • 1969   • 1968   • 1967   • 1966   • 1965   • 1964   • 1963   • 1962   • 1961   • 1960   • 1950-1959   • 1949   • 1948   1960 FATHERS’ FOLLIES OF 1960 Around the World in Eighty Days The Thirteenth Year April 8 and 9, 1960 Producer: Jesse Sanford Director: Jim Gates Script: Walt Cash Choreographer: Beth Allen Set Design: George Dickey Poster/Program Art: Marge Hudson By Jill Benone: This has a special scene honoring "Eddie, the Crossing Guard", who was stationed on Canada Boulevard, played by producer Jesse Sanford. Eddie received an Honorary Service Award from VW PTA, covered by the Glendale News-Press. This very clever and eminently re-workable script features a fast-talking salesman, Mr. Rankenfross, who talks Principal Don Fiske and the PTA ladies into offering hot-air balloon rides at the Fall Festival. Several kids get into the balloon, set it adrift, and visit various impossible locales. Scenes are laid in an island in the south seas, South American and African jungles, a street in India, a harem in the middle east, the arctic, the American prairie, a old west saloon , and the American desert. They are followed by Fiske who wants to rescue the kids, aided by Rankenfross who wants to rescue his balloon.. The PTA ladies remain at home, waiting for their children to return. The Fall Festival is dismantled in Scene XX, and the Finale follows. The script indicates the show opens with the traditional “No Business Like Show Business”. This show calls for the Can-Can, in the second scene "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay" ("We Are the PTA") is sung as an introduction to the dance. The script ends with Rankenfross sailing away in his balloon. The finale is "Hail Verdugo Woodlands" followed by "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody". All scenes are numbered, the cast is identified by character and actors’ name. The producer’s name is still spelled backward, the only means of identifying him. For the first time, the program lists an auditorium coordinator and a treasurer. Follies is becoming big business.