May 30, 31, June 5, 6, 12, 13, 1982
This production of Around the World in 80 Days, based on the 1880 novel by Jules Verne, used a script by Rodney Dawes. It differed from the musical version the Players produced in 1964. Irving Zimmer directed.
Pat Bray played Phileas Fogg and Christy Jensen was the Hindu princess Aouda. Buck Gordon was Passepartout. Inspector Fix, Fogg's pursuer, was played by David Roddey, and Marcia Harper was his wife, Myra, who chased after him.
Marcia's character had some fast backstage crossings between scenes. At dress rehearsal, she fell during one of them and chipped a bone in her ankle.
The next weekend she was back on stage wearing a walking cast. Costumer Mary Duckering trimmed umbrellas to match Marcia's costumes; they served as canes. And two men carried her on her backstage crossings. She rather enjoyed maintaining "the show must go on" tradition.
Attendance for the six performances was 2,741.
Nedar Slauson, a long time Mountaineer who performed in plays in the 1970s and continued to help into the 1990s, wrote an interesting piece about that play and the theater for a small journal called Landmarks. Click here to view.
