Programme 1963 – All For Mary

Presenting their

21st Annual Production

TOMOANA PLAYERS

“ALL FOR MARY”

by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman

A FARCE IN THREE ACTS.

Under the direction of :   JAMES CAMP.

Municipal theatre, Napier.   SATURDAY 25th JULY.
Town Hall, Dannevirke.   TUESDAY, 28th JULY.
Municipal Theatre, Waipukurau.   THURSDAY 30th JULY
Municipal Theatre, Hastings.   SATURDAY, MONDAY and TUESDAY, 1st, 3rd and 4th AUGUST.

Officers:

Patron:   A. KIRKPATRICK, esq.

President:   A.K. ALEXANDER, Esq.

Vice-Presidents:
Messrs. G. G. BLOORE, G. H. BONE, D. BEERE, R. DILLON, F. W. GODFREY, R. M. MAYS, W. G. McNAB and G. E. SCOTT.

Managing Secretary-Treasurer   Mr. M. L. MOLONEY
Assistant Secretary   Mr. E. REAY.
Producer   Mr. J. CAMP
Asst. Producer   Mr. R. L. STEWART
Stage Director   Mr. S. TAYLOR
Stage Manager   Mr. K. JENKS
Musical Director   Mr. R. COLEMAN
Chairman of Management Committee   Mr. R. B. REID
Auditor   Mr. G. A. TOOTHILL

Management Committee:   Miss J. Goodall, Messrs. G. Musson, W. Tieman, and R. B. Reid.

Honorary Members:   Mrs. H. L. Spence, Messrs. M. Boshier, T. Paget, G. E. Scott and H. L. Spence.

Life Members:   Messrs. A. Kirkpatrick, M. L. Moloney and R. J. Thomas.

Characters
(in order of appearance)

ALPHONSE   ERIC REAY.
HUMPHREY MILLAR   ROBIN NAIRN.
MARY MILLAR   ANN HUGHES.
VICTOR MONTENAY   PETER GEOR.
CLIVE NORTON   PETER MACKIE.
NANNIE CARTWRIGHT   JESSIE SWANSON.

Telephone Voices:   Mavis Stayt, Judy Taylor, Bill Tieman, Ken Jenks.

Synopsis of Scenery:
ACT 1
A fine Ski-ing Morning
ACT II
Scene 1:   Three days later – Evening.
Scene 2:   Later the same evening.
ACT III
The following morning.

ALL FOR MARY is a typical English farce in three Acts set in an Alpine Ski resort. The ingredients are:- A husband and wife, an ex-husband, a handsome young Frenchman and the childhood nannie of the husband. The action takes place on the top floor of the Hotel Splendide and from there on it is ALL FOR MARY.

Stage Personnel

Set Designed by   SYD TAYLOR
Scene painted by   JACK SKELTON
Property Mistress   JUDITH TAYLOR
Property Assistant   ELSIE MILLS
Wardrobe Mistress   EVERIL SMART
Make up Supervision   MAVIS STAYT
Sound Effects   PETER DIXON
Prompt   MICK MILLS
House Manager   JACK HANNON
Stage Staff:   BILL TIEMAN, MONTIE BOAGEY, JOHN LINAKER and JACK BOYD.

Credits

Messrs. BARRY BROS LTD.
Messrs. POWDRELLS TRANSPORT LTD.

We are grateful to these two firms who, by placing vehicles at our disposal without charge have made the transport of our scenery throughout our tour very easy.

SOME FORTHCOMING AMATEUR PRODUCTIONS OF INTEREST:

HASTINGS GROUP THEATRE is to provide an excellent fare as seen by casting your eyes over the following list of productions.

Noel Coward’s “Relative Values” will be produced by Mrs. Coleen Craven, in their Studio, 407W Queen Street, Hastings, 8 to 15th August, 1964, nightly at 8.

The H.B.’s Only Junior Group (Junior Group Theatre – 82 members) will present their selection of plays and excerpts from plays in their Studio in Mid-September.
Tutor:   Mrs. Eva Farquharson.

Their Last Major Production for the Year will be:   “The Women” to be produced by Mr. Warren Toogood, in their Studio, about the end of October.

That evergreen old favourite “The Belle of New York” will be presented by the HASTINGS MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY in Hastings from 31st August to 12th September with a Napier season extending from 16th September to 19th September. The beautiful music of this light opera will be performed by a Company of seventy performers while the dazzling stage sets – especially hired from Hamilton – plus colourful costumes will make a beautiful spectacle.

For their next major production which is to be presented in the Napier Municipal Theatre for three nights on September 5th, 7th & 8th, the NAPIER REPERTORY SOCIETY has chosen Anthony Kimmin’s most amusing farcial [farcical] comedy “The Amorous Prawn’. This is an exceedingly funny tale of how a C.O.G.’s wife, inspired by a telephone call from some American tourists sets out making money out of official Army Headquarters.

Patrons are assured of a most entertaining evening as they watch the fortunes of Lady Fityadam and her “staff” rise and fall in their endeavours to make some quick money in an ever growing series of diverting incidents.

After a successful season with its 1964 production “Iolanthe”’ the HASTINGS LIGHT OPERA CO., has decided to produce a further “Gilbert and Sullivan’ opera, “The Pirates of Penzance” for its next production to be presented in both Napier and Hastings in April, 1965.

The company intends sparing no expense or effort in making this their biggest and best production yet.

The wardrobe, scenery, and effects are being hired from the Wellington Gilbert and Sullivan Society who had this specially made for their production last year.

Previous Productions

1943   The Bishop’s Candlesticks
1944   Charley’s Aunt
1945   Jane.
1946   The Private Secretary
1947   What Happened Then
1948   The Case of the Frightened Lady
1949   Bird in Hand
1950   A Spot of Bother
1951   See How They Run
1952   Charley’s Aunt
1953   Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure
1954   Your Brother George
1955   The Bat
1956   Love’s a Luxury
1957   Three Wise Fools
1958   Seven Keys to Baldpate
1959   It Pays to Advertise
1960   Ten Little Niggers
1961   Dry Rot
1962   Simple Spyman

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