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Hasty Pudding Theatricals has announced the cast for its 116th production, William Had the Words. Bancroft Little-field, Jr. '64, Joseph C. Bright '64, and Harry H. Lapham' '66 will play the leads.
Littlefield will play Diedre Dauphine, a former star of stage and the silent screen who agrees to appear in a television spectacular of a shakespeare play. The spectacular's sponsor is a company owned by Mrs. Biltmore St. Regis, a New York cosmetic industry cxarina played by Bright.
Mrs. St. Regis needs a director for her show and finds one in cutter Van Aspen, a young Shakespeare professor from Harvard, played by Lapham. She forces Cutter to direct the program by threatening to expose the fact that he has written The Student Body, a sleazy bestseller similar to Love with a Harvard Accent.
Complications develop when Diedre threatens to withdraw from the production because Shakespeare's lyrics have been transformed into Rock 'n' Roll rhythms. Everything comes out happily in the end, though, when Cupid's arrows hit Cutter and Diedre.
The play, which will open on March 11, was written by George W.S. Trow, Jr. '64 and Timothy S. Mayer '66. Joel E. Cohen '64 and Tony Corbett '66 wrote the music.
In the cast are Richard L. Beiser '64, Henry T. Bell '64, Kenyon C. Bolton '65, David L. Carrol '64, Samuel S. Drury, Jr. '64, Brin R. Ford '65, Williams M. Hitzig '63, Douglas R. Jackson '65, James P. McBaine '65, Kevin M. McGrath '65, Evaristo obregon IV '64, Charles E. Pierce, Jr, '64.
Other are Michel Ray '66, Aris M. Sophocies, Jr, '66, David N. Strand '65, Sheldon B. Sturges '64, William F. Wold '66, Benjamin V. White III '64, Lawrence J. White '64, and Walter T. Winslow, Jr, '65.
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