Season 1
1947-1948

What Happened To Jones

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A Red Feather Players Production

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Seabreeze High School (Old)
Jan 31, Feb 1, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
A professor of anatomy is lured to a prize-fight, and the police make a raid on the "mill." The professor escapes to his home, followed by Jones, a travelling salesman, who sells hymn books when he can, and playing cards when he cannot. The police are on the trail, so Jones disguises himself by putting on a Bishop's garb, and a lot of funny complications ensue. The other funmakers are aided not a little by an escaped lunatic.

Nothing But the Truth

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
Seabreeze High School (Old)
Mar 22, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
A comedy featuring a stockbroker who is bet $10,000 that he can’t tell the truth for 24 hours. His partners find his honest embarrassing, especially when it concerns two chorus girls. The truth-telling almost results in wrecking his romance.

Our Town

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
Seabreeze High School (Old)
Apr 18, 19, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
The time is 1901 and the place is Grover’s Corners, a small town in New Hampshire. Meet the neighbors of the town as you explore the relationship between George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. The circle of life is portrayed in three acts–growing up, adulthood, and death.

Yes and No

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
City Island Recreation Center
May 30, 31, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
A comedy depicting a marriage situation in three phases: what would have happened if she had said yes, what would have happened if she had said no, and what actually did happen

Arsenic and Old Lace

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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City Island Recreation Center
Jun 20, 21, 25, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
A dark comedy about the quirky Brewster family. Sweet elderly sisters Abby and Martha poison lonely old men with elderberry wine while their nephew Mortimer discovers their secret amidst romantic and family chaos. Things escalate when Mortimer’s criminal brother Jonathan returns with a plastic surgeon accomplice, creating absurd situations as Mortimer tries to conceal the murders.

Three One Act Plays

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
City Island Recreation Center
Jul 25, 26, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
1. The Real Truth: A Broadway glamour girl and her sister find themselves in love with the same man.
Directed by: Freddie M. Smith, Margaret Ford, Hazel Costello.

2. If Men Played Cards as Women Do: Four men playing playing cards in a most unusual manner. The fun is derived from the fact that a group of men at the poker table speak, behave, and think in the manner in which women are supposed to conduct a bridge game. It seems like a typical scenario: a group of men getting together and playing cards, but it’s the conversation that’s NOT so typical. The four men, whose personalities are all over-the-top, try to “one up” each other during their usual card game. Hilarity ensues and trumps the evening!
Directed by: Margaret Harris.

3. The Monkey’s Paw: A fantasy-tragedy centered around the disaster resulting when a man is granted the power to make three wishes come true.
Directed by: Cherie Colet
Cast: Ann Dreher, Carl Davidson, David Aldrich, Harry Broome, Rodney Reid

On Borrowed Time

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
City Island Recreation Center
Aug 22, 23, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
Pud, a young boy, and Gramps are devoted to one another. When Death comes to take the old man, he refuses to go and tricks Death into climbing an apple tree from which he can’t descend. With Death up a tree, the whole world is on the brink of eternity for no one is able to die. Special Note: Pepper was Judge J. C. Beard’s dog and was known to offer barks for days to be served for petty crimes.

Petticoat Fever

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
City Island Recreation Center
Sep 26, 27, Oct 1, 1947 at 8:15 PM

Description:
A comedic farce built upon complications arising when a wireless operator marooned in Labrador becomes involved with two women simultaneously after not having seen any for two years.

The Divided Heart

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A Radio Show Broadcast Live on WNDB-FM

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Julie, a girl of fifteen, must deal with the effect of her parents’ divorce as she matures into a woman.

The Silver Cord

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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A scathing drama of “mother-love” gone awry portrays the lengths to which widowed Mrs. Phelps will go to keep her “boy’s” attachment to, if not love for, her. Though son Robert ultimately gives up a devoted fiancée and holds fast to the “silver cord” of affection for his mother, firstborn David brings home Christina, a woman who is not so easily dissuaded by The Widow Phelps’ machinations in the name of love.

The Bishop’s Candlestick

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A Radio Show Broadcast Live on WNDB-FM

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A one-act play about a convict who breaks into the Bishop’s house where he is clothed and warmed. The benevolence of the Bishop is betrayed when the convict see a pair of silver candlesticks and steals them.

Unnamed Radio Play

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A Radio Show Broadcast Live on WNDB-FM

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Personal Appearance

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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A rollicking comedy about a famous woman movie star who travels about the country making personal appearances for publicity purposes. The lady, however, is so susceptible to masculine charm that she has to have a special manager with her to keep her out of mischief. She simply cannot resist flirting with any good-looking young man who happens to cross her path. Complications arise when she stops at a combination tourist home and gasoline filling station attended by a couple of good-looking youths!

Laff That Off

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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The Ghost Train

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Old Acquaintance

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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The Dixie Blackbirds

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Shows:
City Island Recreation Center
Apr 30, May 1, 1948 at 8:15 PM

Description:
Minstrel show featuring singing and dancing along with a variety of typical minstrelsy scenes: a meeting with a divorce lawyer, a watermelon party, an engagement, a camp meeting sermon, and a marriage.

Dear Ruth

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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Boy Meets Girl

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A Daytona Beach Little Theatre Production

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