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Irish Operetta at Madison Central High School

Date: 03 07 1961
Description: Jake Standifird (right, wearing a skirt) and Dawn Huett performing in a scene involving a switch of the sexes in the operetta "Bits of Blarney" which will ...
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Choreographer Rehearsing U.W. Dancers

Date: 07 24 1962
Description: Visiting choreographer William Burdick, in navy blue tights, rehearsing six U.W. dancers for the play "The Servant of Two Masters." The dancers, pictured l...
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Civic Opera Guild Black Tie Soiree

Date: 01 28 1964
Description: Former Chief Justice Timothy Brown and his wife Louise Brown (left) and Charles and Viola Fenske (right) will serve as co-chairmen for the "black tie soire...
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Civic Opera Guild Soiree

Date: 02 1964
Description: An unusual photograph of four Madison women working on decorations for the soiree of the Civic Opera Guild, taken through a glass-topped table. They are: L...
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Rehearsal for David Peteson's Folk Operetta Hodag

Date: 03 26 1964
Description: Rehearsing a scene from "Hodag," a folk operetta by David Peterson, are (left to right) Rogers Keene, Director Leonard Schach, and Pat Brown. Leonard Scha...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff"

Date: 01 27 1965
Description: Eight members of the Wisconsin Ballet, including Mrs. David Johnson who is facing the camera, dance in the final scene of Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" wh...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff"

Date: 02 06 1965
Description: Singing in the Madison Civic Opera's chorus in the production of "Falstaff" are, left to right: Charlotte Newton, Ann Crow, Mrs. Thomas Chalfant, Sandra Kw...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff"

Date: 02 06 1965
Description: In the final scene of the opera "Falstaff", Sir John with arms outstretched is played by Robert Tottingham. Directly behind him, left to right, are his two...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff"

Date: 02 06 1965
Description: In the Madison Civic Opera's production of "Falstaff". Sir John ends up in a hamper filled with dirty laundry. At right, Paul Balshaw, one Falstaff in the ...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff

Date: 02 06 1965
Description: Jerry Hjert, director and John Custer, technical director of the Madison Theater Guild, foreground, survey the ruins of the Madison Civic Opera's scenery a...

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