Home Photo Galleries   • 2000-2009   • 1990-1999   • 1980-1989   • 1979   • 1978   • 1977   • 1976   • 1975   • 1974   • 1973   • 1972   • 1971   • 1970   • 1960-1969   • 1950-1959   • 1949   • 1948   1974 A Verdugo Woodlands Nurseryland Fantasy The Twenty-Seventh Year: April 26 and 27, 1974 Producer: Dick Dunham Associate Producer: Bob Steinhilber Production Consultant: Jack Kabatek Director: John Campbell Original Script: Walter Cash Adapted Script: Jerry Cassandro, Dick Dunham, Vince Fish, Jack Kabateck, Hank Lay, Jack Mason, Bob Steinhilber, Ed Ramsey Musical Director: Bob Adolphe Choreographers: Yvonne Rodriguez and Jackie Larson Set Design: Cliff Prothero Poster/Program Art: Cliff Prothero By Jill Benone: At long last, the bad little girl has a name: Millie. The show opens on the Matterhorn at Disneyland – an elaborate practical set -- which Principal Steve Smith is climbing complete in lederhosen and where the PTA is holding its first meeting of the year. Millie travels to Nurseryland where she encounters a tiger, her Fairy Godmother, the White Rabbit, Snow White and (two) Dwarfs and Wicked Witch #1. She moves on to the Oz group, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, Jack, Jill, Hansel, Gretel, and Wicked Witch #2. She then finds a Pompous Personage, Georgie Porgie and his (three) girls, the Old Woman in the Shoe, Bo-Peep, Miss Muffet, and Simple Simon and the Pieman. Colonel Saunders shows up with Chicken Little this time around, followed by the Queen of Hearts with her Guards, Executioner, a Prisoner, an Ambassador, and a Page. The final scene -- Scene 20 -- is called "The Matterhorn Can-Can", the first program mention of what became the traditional finale. There is no mention of "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay". An interesting program note: instead of individual letters from the Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education, there was a group letter signed by all