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   1965 To the Moon and Mars (Rocket Ship II) The Eighteenth Year: June 4 and 6, 1965 Producer: Dick Woodmancy Director: Jim Gates Story and Script: Walt Cash Musical Director: Bob Adolphe Choreographer: Doris Boyer Stagecraft and Props: Dick Wilson Poster/Programr Art: Marge Hudson By Jill Benone: This seems to have elaborated on the 1959 script. Martians are specified in the program, along with the U.S. Army. Mrs. Feefack, Mrs. Goodlefratz, other PTA ladies, a husband or two and various assorted kids are listed. The mayor, police chief, fire chief, and an FBI man are also in the action, along with the Chief Mouseketeer, (I think the moon was made of green cheese, and mice eat cheese, and therefor the chief mouse would be – oh, you get it) and director Jim Gates. It’s hard to judge the exact content from the program, but it looks as if the kids have again invented a rocket fuel that takes them into outer space. (Cape Kennedy is listed as a scene, and blockhouse technicians as characters.) There are ballets on Mars and scenes involving green cheese and weightlessness, as well as a scene devoted to "Our Answer to Socialized Medicine” – Follies was never afraid to take on issues of the day. Oh, yes, all the happenings seem to have been featured on a Martian news program, complete with commercials.