LOCAL PLAYERS STAGING HOLIDAY COMEDY
CITIZENS COMMITTEE PLAY ON JANUARY 10 AND 11 Although the Taupo Dramatic Society has regretfully decided against mounting a play during the Christmas-New Year Holidays this year, 011 account of Queen Carnival activities, the Citizens' Queen Committee plan to stage a farcial comedy in the War Memorial Hall, namely Roger Macdougall's "To Dorothy A Son," probably on January 10 and 11. Rehearsals are under way and the production should provide first class holiday entertainment. Foliowing its original opening at the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1950 the play ran for 513 performances, a fact that speaks eloquently of its audience appeal.
W ' . The Committee advises that leading roles will be taken by certain familiarly popular players (incognito on this occasion), while the play will be produced and | mounted by one who is not alto- I gether unknown. All proceeds will go to the Sports Ground Queen Carnival funds. Further details will no doubt escape later from the Citizens' Queen Committee's "hush-hush bag
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Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 3 December 1954, Page 1
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166LOCAL PLAYERS STAGING HOLIDAY COMEDY Taupo Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 3 December 1954, Page 1
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