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Casting Con‘Oklahoma’Casting for the Rodgers andHammerstein musical Oklahoma,M set for a Mav 3 opening at Walla Walla Little Theater, is complete, according to Mrs Borghild Nelson, director, although a few more peop^. both men and women, to smg in the chorus could be accommodated j j Linda Larsen Knowles, remembered for her portraal m The King and I. and John Rasmussen. Whitman College ! student from San Jose. Calif.are cast in the roles of Laurey and Curly Mary Ellen Stevens as Aunt Eller and Joanie Stevens as Ado Annie are both well-known to Little Theater audiences,Others in CastOthers cast include Richard Angell as Ike Sidmore, Tom Stockman as Fred, Richard Ames as Slim. Bob Luckey as Will Parker. Clifton Ferguson ‘as Jud, LaVonne Cox as Ali Kakim, Lenore Smith as Gertie,I Francis Mills as Andrew Carnes , and Jack Wiles as Cord Elam j Also in the cast are Patsy Dav-, idson. Virginia Marable. Phyl-lpleted for ProductionIts Jordan. Guy CooL, Maynard Wooten, Ed Cox, Ginger Vale, Roselle Pitner, Cindy Bannister Lynne Chamberlain and Sherne Parker,Mary Lonneker in assistant to the director, George While serves as musical advisor; and Lenore Smith as drama advisor Choreography will be done by Boh Luckey. Susan Ruiz and Glenda Benson The latter two are Whitman College coeds who instruct in ballet and Highland dancing at the YWCANat Vale, Little Theater president. has taken over the job of producer iSinger* Needed iAnyone interested in singing with the chorus is asked to get in touch with Mrs Nelson or tO| be at the theater at 7 pm. Monday where the cast will be in rehearsal, iThis is the 25th anniversary year of the first production of “Oklahoma,” The musical originally was produced by The The-' ater Guild in the spring of 1943 at the St. James Theater in New York.
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sun, Apr 07, 1968
Page 31
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