THE BAND PLAYED ON: A GAY NINETY REVIEW

ST. JAMES DRAMATIC PLAYERS

Friday, March 30, 1951
8:15 P.M.
Sunday, April 1, 1951
2: P.M.
St. James New School Hall

ST. JAMES DRAMATIC PLAYERS
PRESENT THEIR ANNUAL SHOW

Produced and Directed by ...............Mr. Harry Blank
Dancing Directed by........................Mrs. Robert Tuckers
Pianist....................................Mrs. Harry Ladd

ST. JAMES GIRLS AND BOYS CHOIR
Directed by Dominican Nuns and Mrs. Thelma Pape Hines
Peggy O'Neil .....Girls' Choir -- St. Pat's at St. James........ Girls and Boys

GIRLS' CHOIR

Gail Aylward
Celeste Zinn
Jane Haley
Mary Ellen Poison
Eileen Brady
Susan Bennett
Jacqueline Lassos
Sandra Richards
Nancy Coad
Ruth Ann Berkel
Barbara Meier
Mary Ann Riordan
Carol Dunphy
Mary Booth
Kathleen McMahon
Margaret Smith
Patricia Griffin
Anita Coleman
Janet McNicholas
Charlotte Spier
Marlene Jovanovic
Shirlee Crowell
Barbara Miles
Virginia Spino
Lucille Miller
Edith DeRienzo
Ann Newport
Rose Marie Vincent
Peggy Moor
Mary Drummond
Jo-Ann O'Connell
Diane Vollinger
Kathleen O'Keefe
Mary Egli
Teresa Placke
Patricia Wichner
Margaret Pilla
Carlene Fannen
Patricia Pursley
Mary Widman
Loretta Sharamitaro
Lorraine Fleming
Mary Catherine Quinlan

WHO THREW THE OVERALLS IN MISTRESS MURPHY'S CHOWDER?......Boy's Choir
HAIL, GLORIOUS ST. PATRICK

BOYS' CHOIR

Norman Dressler
Roger McDonough
Vito Barone
Robert Laughlin
Walter Reel
John Nelson
Larry Drummond
Larry Lohmann
Charles Cova
John Strathman
Raymond Dupske
James McEvoy
Joseph Kearney
John Smith
Robert Feldman
Richard Meredith
John Mahon
Kenny Thornsberry
George Griffard
Thomas Newport
John Vezeau
Gerard Kalt
George Jacot
John O'Connell
Robert Corbett
Kemper Coffelt
Don Kassing
John Rocchio

Act I
CAMPAIGN FOR ALDERMAN IN THE 24th WARD

Scene: Bowery Cafe
CAST OF CHARACTERS

Mike Casey ....................Vincent Bresnahan
Officer Harrigan................. Mrs. Bernice Hahn
Abe Goldberg .....................Joseph Adams
Hesekiah Q. Hoycum ...............James McKenna
Alice Ray ........................Carol LaFauce
Jack Diamond .....................James Logan
Myrtle joy .......................Ann Booth
Bozo .............................Mrs. Mary Logan
Mushmouth ....................... Mrs. Mary Difani
Bucket Head ..................... Charleen Ladd
Kitty Monroe .................... Mrs. Elsie Cova
Bob Monroe ...................... Edmond Bresnahan
Hazel DeMay ......................Mrs. Delores Thiele
Pat O'Day ........................Dave Coad
Michael Kelly ................... Harry Ladd
Sally ............................Carol Booth

BOWERY - DANCING CHORUS

Pat Peters
Radine Cisnowski
Elsie Dieffenbach
Maureen Brady
Joan Placke
Margie McMahon
Elaine Hart
Jean Marie Cooper
Kathleen O'Hare
Margie O'Brien
Lucille Mazzuca

CLANCY LOWERED THE BOOM
Vincent Bresnahan

TOWN WHERE I WAS BORN
Dave Coad
Assisted by Mr. Bones Himself......James McKenna
SINGING CHORUS

Pat Harvey
Mary Sullivan
Mary Miller
Carol Booth
Shirley Hahn
Dorothy Hummert

THEY GO WILD OVER ME
James Logan and Joseph Adams
MY NAME IS KELLY
Harry Ladd, Sr.
BALLIN' THE JACK
Mrs. Mary Logan
Assisted by Charleen Ladd and Mrs. Mary Difani

Act 2
NEIGHBORHOOD TALENT

"THE THING"

James Manion
John Hummert
Robert Loesche
Harry Ladd, Jr.
Leon Koester

TAP DANCE
Marilyn Holmes
MONA LISA
James O'Connell

CHARLESTON
Sandra Richard

GRITAR SPECIALTY
Mrs. Lucille Liston

OLD RECORDS
Mrs. Patricia Crawford

DANCE
Diana Voellinger

ACCORDION DUET
Norman Dressler and Joseph Kearney

SONG AND DANCE SPECIALTY
Kenneth Willmarth

ACT 3
A GREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH
Vincent Bresnahan

HARRIGAN
Mrs. Bernice Hahn

CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME
Charleen Ladd

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
Mrs. Delores Thiele

HELLO, MY BABY
Dancing Chorus

FINALE
Entire Case
Solo.......Irene Jovanovich

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