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   1961 A Trip to West Fairyland The Fourteenth Year: April 21 and 21, 1961 General Chairman: Les Swartwout Steering Committee Chairman: Jim Gates Producer: Jesse Sanford Script: Walt Cash Orchestra: Bob Adolphe Choreographer: Beth Schlesslman Set Design: George Dickey Poster/Program Art: Marge Hudson By Jill Benone: This is the first version of the script erroneously referred to as "Alice". "Alice" herself isn’t in the story, but the White Rabbit is. I think the confusion arises from poster/program cover, which depicts the “Naughty Little Girl”, an “Alice” look-alike, with the White Rabbit. There were twenty-one scenes, each with a set change. One set, the “Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe”, called for a huge shoe with a practical door into which almost the entire cast exits. Some of the orchestra members are listed as volunteers. The show opens with a scene with Eddie the Crossing Guard urging children to cross the street safely. He has trouble with the “Naughty Little Girl” who doesn’t want to go to school. That night, a witch shows up in the girl’s bedroom and whisks her off to West Fairyland, where things aren’t exactly as imagined. Trying to go home, she encounters Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs, Rapunzel in her tower, Wee Willie Winkie, Miss Muffet’s tuffet complete with spider, the cottage of Hansel and Gretel’s witch, the Old Woman in the Shoe, and Simple Simon and the Pieman. Georgie Porgie is a running gag, trying to “kiss the girls” throughout the show, including forays into the audience. She meets the Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker, and runs into the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion on their way to Oz. A disc jockey named Rick Bark plays the same rock’n’ roll song over and over. The Queen of Hearts calls “off with their heads”, an imaginative black light number Eventually, of course, the Naughty Little Girl becomes the Good Little Girl who decides there is nothing better than going to school in Verdugo Woodlands.