Stage Door

Export event | Export network | Feedback | Print
Event Stage Door
Venue His Majesty's Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Date 17 September 1941
Last Date September 1941
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description The brief 'life history' of a band of 18 stage-struck girls in the Footlights Club, the temptations that beset their paths, their ambitions, their failures, their successes, their struggles to remain loyal to the theatre despite its neglect of them.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Comedy
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Alice Clarke Actor Jean Maitland
Lola Cuddie Actor
Lydia Davis Actor Terry Randall
Peggy Griffiths Actor
James Halies Actor Negro Servant
Doreen Harvey Actor
Sybil Henderson Actor
Chris Justin Actor
Annette Kilroy Actor
Cecile Malthus Actor Kaye Hamilton
Keith McCulloch Actor
Pat McDouall Actor
Alan Morris Actor
Katharine Napier Actor
Gaynor Paape Actor
Billie Paterson Actor
Maisie Ponder Actor
Lionel Powell Actor
Bruce Quennell Actor Adolf Gretzl
Joyce Rowley Actor
Jessie Ryan Actor Mrs Orcutt
Sylvia Seelen Actor Negro Servant
Anthony Spears Actor Dr Randall
Trixie Stevenson Actor
Bernard Sullivan Actor David Kingsley
Jocelyn Tapley Actor
Robert Watkins Actor
Roland Watson Actor Keith Burgess
Shirley Williamson Actor
Mary Woodhouse Actor
Bessie Thomson Director
Edna Ferber Playwright
George Kaufman Playwright
Text Nationality United States of America
Further Information A large cast of 30 rehearses for nearly four months. The first time since The Women that a modern American comedy has been seen on the Dunedin stage.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 204586