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Show MY SISTER EILEEN "My Sister Eileen", Weber's first farce since the war, was presented March 6, 7 and 8 to turnaway crowds. Costarring Marilyn Robinson and Leah Crawford as the Columbus, Ohio, sisters who go to New York for the acting and writing opportunities, the show was written for laughs and defies anyone to find a single idea worth quotng. MY SISTER EILEEN Cast of Characters Mr. Appopolous................................Bill Carpenter Ruth Sherwood................................Leah Crawford Eileen Sherwood..........................Marilyn Robinson Jensen................................................John Murphy A Street Arab..............................Wayne Peterson A Pair of Drunks........................Leland Wakefield Verl Soelberg Lonigan..............................................Orville Holley Vender........................................Charles Pettigrew The Wreck........................................Rulon Garfield Another Street Arab............................Kay Walker Mr. Fletcher..................................Scott Biddle Helen Woods......................................Bernice Child Frank Lippencott........................Griff Richards Chic Clark............................................Kay Randall Cossack..............................................Brent Marriott Violet Shelton..............................Glenna Jo Cutler Mrs. Wade....................................Florence Hayden Robert Baker........................................Bob Daniels Six Future Admirals..................George Stromberg Lewis Nord, George W. Bell, Leland Wakefield, Brent Marriott and Verl Soelberg Walter Sherwood...............Wallace G. Greenwell A Prospective Tenant................Jeanne Michaelson The Consul....................................Merlin Sorenson Sand Hog............................................Glen Collins The scenes all took place in a basement apartment belonging to the girls which resembled a combination United Nations meeting and Times Square, with Greeks, Brazilians, half-naked athletes, dissipated newspaper reporters, an Irish cop, a Swedish janitor, and countless others from assorted walks of life who strode through the apartment as though it were the Moench hall. The actors' abilities to put over comedy, added to a brilliantly written and well directed play, gave Ogden and Weber their best show in years. |
