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A public service message from your Heart Association [[image - Heart Association logo]] Contributed by the Publisher and the Wolf at New York City Center. She was also associate conductor of 70 Girls 70. A graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Miss Gustafson is presently head of the musical theatre department of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. ----- LOUIS JOHNSON (Choreographer and Musical Staging), whose Broadway credits include Les Blancs, Mahogonny and Purlie, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, began his career as a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet in Jerome Robbins' Ballet Ballads. He subsequently organized his own dance theatre. He has taught at Yale University and Virginia State College, and was the dance director for the Negro Ensemble company, which won an Obie Award for Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, which he staged. He was one of the choreographers for the Ed Sullivan Show, created the dances in the movie Cotton Comes to Harlem, and this year received the F & M Schaefer Award for his work in Purlie. Mr. Johnson has mounted ballets for the Alvin Ailey company, National Ballet and Dance Theater of Harlem. ----- ROGER L. STEVENS (Co-Producer) has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since 1961, when he was appointed by President Kennedy. Roger Stevens was Special Assistant to the President on the Arts from 1964 to 1968, and Chairman of the National Council on the Arts from 1964 to 1969. Mr Stevens' theatrical career includes producing or co-producing more than 125 plays, among them works by such important writers as William Inge, Jean Anouilh, Harold Pinter, Noel Coward, Jean Kerr, Peter Shaffer, Tennessee Williams, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Robert Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Gore Vidal and T. S. Eliot. Mr. Stevens Is Chairman of the Board of the American Film Institute and a Director of the Metropolitan Opera. He is a member of the Executive Committee and a co-founder of the American Shakespeare Theatre, President of the National Opera Institute, Chairman of the Book Awards Committee and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA). Most recently he has produced the newest Harold Pinter play, Old Times. ----- DIANA SHUMLIN (Co-Producer) produced the play Transfers and the Arthur Laurents-Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle for the New York stage. She also presented the national company of Spofford, written by her husband, the well-known producer-director Herman Shumlin, and has produced the television special Shubert Alley. More recently, Mrs. Shumlin served as production coordinator for the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's mass at Kennedy Center's Opera House and as general manager of the highly successful Plumstead Playhouse production of The Time of Your Life starring Henry Fonda at Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. 30 [[end page]] [[begin page]] STAFF FOR "LOST IN THE STARS" Production Stage Manager.....Frank Hamilton Company Manager.............David Hedges General Press Representative..Seymour Krawitz Assoc. Press Representatives..Martin Shwarz Patricia Krawitz Stage Manager................Robert Keegan Associate Conductor...........Joseph Klein Assistant Stage Manager....Leonard Hayward Assistant to Mr. Frankel.......Kristen Richards Assistant to Mrs. Shumlin........Lee Reynolds Production Secretary..........Wendy Chernis Assistant to Mr. Smith...........Jack Brown Assistant to Mr. Sullivan.......Ken Billington Production Carpenter..............Allan Wolff Production Electrician..........Sander Hacker Assistant Electricians........John F. Goodson, Robert Burns, Allan Jacobs, Charles De Rosa, John Cooper Flyman....................Francis X. White Production Propertyman.........Jack Famoso Wardrobe Master..........Martin Gaiptman Merchandising.......On The Spot Production Advertising.............Blaine Thompson Co. Signs....................King Display, Inc. Orchestra Personnel Consultant..Morris Stonzek Printing Consultant........Harold Friedlander Accountants.........Pinto, Winokur and Pagano ----- Projections designed by Alec Nesbitt ----- CREDITS Scenery built by Feller Scenery Studios Inc.; Lighting equipment by Four Star Stage Lighting Inc.; Projections by Gordon Crowe Productions Inc.; Sound by Theater Sound, Inc.; Silver candelabra and table service by Michael C. Fina Co.; Outdoor equipment by Paragon Sporting Goods; Table linens courtesy of Sleater-Fifth Avenue; Atache case and luggage courtesy of M & M Luggage Co.; Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation products used; Pepsi-Cola products used; Masks by Costume Armour, Inc.; Men's costumes made by Ray Simpson; Watch courtesy of Arnex Watch Co.; Rock-si-cord courtesy of Washington Music Center; Drums Inc. musical instruments used. Men's shirts by Sero of New Haven; Ironweve hosiery by Supreme Mills; Lingerie courtesy of Formfit-Rogers; Men's hose by d'Orsay Mills; Dutch Masters Cigars used.; Pipes and tobacco courtesy of The Pipe & Tobacco Council of America. ----- Cover Drawing by Larry Johnson, used by permission of The Boston Globe. ----- Theatre Maintenance.....Mohawk Maintenance Co., Inc.--Remco Maintenance Corporation ----- Interior Painted by Gothic Color Co., Inc. ----- All products used in this theatre for the promotion of sanitation are manufactured by the Creco Co., Inc. ----- House Physician....Dr. Benjamin A. Gilbert ----- The taking of pictures or the operating of any recording device in this theatre is strictly forbidden. 31 [[advertisement - Playbill Binder]] Relive precious moments...with a Playbill Binder Each Binder holds 20 Playbills...makes looking them over easier...and more fun. 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