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   1963 The Time Machine The Sixteenth Year: May 3 and 4, 1963 Producer: Art Pugh Director: Jim Gates Script: Walt Cash Musical Director: Bob Adolphe Choreographers: Doris Boyer and Pat Parlour Scenic Design: Frances DeFano Set Design: George & Louise Dickey Poster/Program Art: Marge Hudson By Jill Benone: This was the year the country was in a mild panic about Russia’s perceived scientific superiority. Science was emphasized in school, and Science Fairs were prevalent. The show starts at the Verdugo Woodlands PTA Science Fair where an enterprising young VW student invented a Time Machine. The only script available is the revised 1969 version, in which the inventor and Mrs. Feefack travel back and forth through history. The program lists Kids #1, 2, 3, and 4, and "other kids” along with Mmes. Feefack, Goodlefratz, Grunch, and Klotz, which names were used in many of the Cash scripts. They run into George Washington, Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad, the front and rear ends of a horse, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, several slaves with specific jobs, a caveman and cave woman, Pygmalion, Mrs. Pygmalion and Galatea. This is not a linear trip, as they go back and forth in time. encountering Nero, St. George and the dragon, Ferdinand and Isabella with Christopher Columbus, William Tell and his son Billy, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and Abraham Lincoln. The final characters listed are Officers and Men in White Coats. The Marie Antoinette costumes were used over and again in the ‘70s, 80s, and ‘90s. The wigs, elaborate constructions of surgical cotton built on wire frames, housed strange insect life and were firmly discarded The program thanks GCC instructor Art Brady and his technical staff.