| Show 4 Crew Works Toward Success of Music Play By MARY MORETON on Dim Curtain going Behind the scenes ot is a unseen cast whose work is directly responsible for its success when the curtain rises May Otto Harbach not only wrote the script for but came back to his home town to direct his Threatened with a loss of sight as a young Harbach changed his plans for a career as a college and instead became famous as a composer and Harbach has been composing one or more hits almost every year since was the author of such plays as of My and which was given by the Salt Lake Civic Opera company in He has also collaborated on numerous musical some of which are Desert and Cat and the He considers writing musical comedies as most exciting thing in the world and even more of a gamble than the stock His simple formula for stage success is ambition and Good-natured and well-liked by his yet exacting in demands of Harbach has come from New York City to direct the first presentation of his newest musical play in its present Known to many as the of America's show Jerome Kern has written the tunes for nearly 50 musical including and for six Although his first songs were composed in England and he gained recognition his compositions are typically Kern had a superstition that shows whose names started with the letter S went over This accounts for the naming of his stage It's Not All Work CAST ENTHUSIASTICALLY ADDS FINISHING TOUCHES TO MUSICAL PLAY This is and goes on in Otto Harbach's a play with Starting top and the players Frank Ned Algene Cecilia Maycock and Private Fredrick Lower John Dantzel Ned Algene and Author-Producer Otto Hat The play will be presented May 28 and and In addition to he has written the music for shows like Dream Too Girl From and I Cat and the which was the first musical comedy without His most recent score was for the Were Never Another name well know n lo Broadway is that of Oscar who wrote the lyrics for of the songs in He has written in collaboration the book and lyrics of many musical including and Desert as well as many motion including Swing Great and Story of Vernon and Irene In addition to the authors and the there are a number of other without whom the curtain could not Joe known to university students man m Kingsbury has designed and built the sets for For 12 years Joe has built the scenery and helped with the presentation I of each play by the university I I A. veteran of the he was one of the Maroni Olson players in the old Salt Lake theater and toured for several years with stock But is the of the according to and all his time and attention is being devoted to West Point scenes and springtime in the Lila Eccles university speech holds the position of associate Working under and along with Pari it has been her duty to assist in the rehearsing of the I Since music plays a major part hi instructors of Richard Condie and Joseph C. have the positions of singing director and backstage orchestration respective- In addition to the they instruct two groups of one backstage and one in the Accompanying the singers will be several piano teams and a string which they must cue Gail manager of the University theater and acting head of the speech is also one of the backstage He has the business and financial end of the including the Although he has had nothing to do with the actual directing he has spent a great deal of time with the production costs and I Professor Plummer is now acting head of the speech faculty head of the Speech Arts society and manager of Kingsbury Two students also have important parts in the presentation of this musical Norman as production sees that the cast is in attendance at all rehearsals and directs the glee clubs and soloists in He is a member of Delta Phi fraternity and is director for their musical presentational He also was leader of the men's glee club and a member of the University tet It is the duty of Marian stage to see that the properties and costumes appear on the stage at the right time as well as the She is a member of Theta Alpha national dramatic and was assistant stage manager for this year's freshman She has been active in being on the staffs of several university Only through the Work of each of these persons behind the scenes can the curtain rise and the audience see the final performance of the musical |
