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University Daily Kansan Friday, April 17. 1959
Hard Work Goes Into Opening Night
Louis Lyda, Lawrence graduate student, and Joyce Elliott,
Independence, Mo., senior, learn their lines.
A variety of jobs goes into producing a play. On this page are pictures of some of the behind-the-scene work in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building on two plays, one of which, "Elves and the Shoemaker," opened Monday.
The tale of the elves and the shoe-maker, a KU Children's Theatre production, will be performed at 4:15 p.m. today and again at 2 p.m. tomorrow.
At the same time the children's production was underway, the University Theatre was in the first stages of preparing Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale," to be presented April 29 and 30 and May 1 and 2.
Building stage props, designing costumes, taking the first look at the lines, and taking inventory of instruments are being done a month before the opening night of "Winter's Tale."
Two days before the children's play was to be presented the lights were hung, the actors ran through the play amidst the scenery, and the director made last minute changes.
Adrin Eley, Marysville sophomore, hangs stage lights in the darkened upper reaches of the stage.
Herbert Camburn, instructor of speech, makes a blonde wig.
Sally Hart. Fort Scott junior, inventories musical instruments on the stage.
Ernest Kasold, Lawrence freshman,
saws out prop material.
Sally Hart, an assistant director, sits among swivel seats in the Children's Theatre to hear actors rehearse. The theater seats 80 persons.
Mary Ann Harris, Independence, Mo., freshman, runs through her part over a shoemaker's repair stand.