For the third consecutive year local amateur actors and actresses, under the direction of Rita Sweets, will be performing for the benefit of the Rosedale Neighborhood Association. In each of thetwo previous years the play was performed only once. This year there will be two performances, one Friday, November 19th and one Saturday, November 20th, both at Grace United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall.
This year’s melodrama is “No Opera At the Op’ry House Tonight, or Too Good To Be True.” Assisting Rita Sweets are Stage Manager Cherie McKee and Assistant Stage Manager Susie Roach. The cast includes such luminaries of stage and screen as (in order of appearance) Ms. Cathy Williams, Mr. Victor Mann, Mr. Dudley Weeks, Mr. Ed Stout, Ms. Dee Vossmeyer, Mr. Dan Shea, Ms. Betty Nerviani, Ms. Marjorie Weir, Ms. Karen Bynum, Mr. Richard Lake, and Ms. Christina Lange. Entr’acte olios are under the management of Ms. Mary Bea Stout
Friday night’s performance will begin Promptly at 8:00 p.m. in Grace U. Meth. Church’s Fellowship Hall, 6199 Waterman. Unlike the Saturday performance, the
Friday night show does not include a cocktail party or dinner. Friday night tickets will be $2.00 per person.
Saturday night’s entertainment will begin at 6:00 p.m. at St. Roch’s Scariot Hall where playgoers may enjoy hors d’ oeuvres and a cash bar. At 7:00 p.m. they will walk up to Grace United Methodist. Church Fellowship Hall for a 7:15 p.m. curtain of the melodrama. Following the performance they will return to Scariot Hall for dinner and socializing. Tickets for
Saturday night will be $5.00 per person.
The dinner is under the management of Neville and Jo Ann Vatcha. Anyone who wishes to volunteer assistance with the dinner is urged to call the Vatchas at 726-6974. If you can offer assistance in setting up tables, running errands, etc., please call Brad Weir, 863-7558.
Tickets can be obtained from members of the cast listed above and from Nancy Shelton, 721-2631. Last year’s Dinner —Theatre Party was a sellout, so don’t wait until the last minute to get your tickets!
Original programme, page 8
Friday, November 19th: 8:00 P.M. Admission: $2.00.
Saturday, November 20th: A Theatre and Dinner Party.
6:00–7:00 P.M.: Cocktails (cash bar) and hors d’oeuvres, St. Roch’s Scariot Hall, Waterman at Rosedale.
7:15 P.M.: Curtain for “No Opera at the Op’ry House Tonight, or Too Good To Be True,” Grace United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
After the play until . . . : Dinner Party, St. Roch’s Scariot Hall.
Original programme, page 8
Friday, November 19th: 8:00 P.M. Admission: $2.00.
Saturday, November 20th: A Theatre and Dinner Party.
6:00–7:00 P.M.: Cocktails (cash bar) and hors d’oeuvres, St. Roch’s Scariot Hall, Waterman at Rosedale.
7:15 P.M.: Curtain for “No Opera at the Op’ry House Tonight, or Too Good To Be True,” Grace United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
After the play until . . . : Dinner Party, St. Roch’s Scariot Hall.
Original photograph caption
Rosedale Neighborhood Association presents “No Opera at the Op’ry House Tonight, or Too Good To Be True.” Original November 19–20 programme. The Paper, November 1976, page 8. Original illustration; artist not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1976.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times1976_11.pdf, printed page(s) 1, 8; PDF page(s) 1, 8.
