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[[Message to Company]] Tuesday, June 5, 1956 To Each Member of The PORGY AND BESS Company GOD BLESS YOU AND WELCOME HOME (See note at bottom of page re: Transportation from airport. His Honor, Mayor Robert Wagner, of New York City is receiving the entire PORGY AND BESS Company Place -- CITY HALL, Chambers Street and Park Row Time -- 10:30 A.M. Wednesday, June 6, 1956 This is a signal honor. Please be on time. If weather is Good - we'll be received on City Hall steps. If weather is Bad - we'll be in the Board of Estimates room - - - - - - - The press, photographers, TV, radio and newsreels will be there. - - - - - - - You deserve this great and unusual honor, and we are all proud of you. Love, Wilva Breen SUBWAY TRANSPORTATION TO CITY HALL: IRT - East Side - BROOKLYN BRIDGE STATION IRT - West Side - PARK PLACE STATION BMT - CITY HALL SQUARE 8th Avenue(IND?) - CHAMBERS STREET [[/announcement]] [[program]] [[image - black & white photograph of choir]] PART II CARMEN JONES (Act I Scene 3) Conceived and adapted by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II From Meilhac & Halevy's adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's story, "Carmen" Music by GEORGES BIZET Adapted for this purpose by ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT Bizet's "Carmen" is a gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory, flirts with Don José a corporal of Dragoons, and, when tired of him, turns to Escamillo a famous toreador only to be killed by the jealous Don José. Oscar Hammerstein brilliantly adapted Bizet's opera transferring its action form Seville, Spain to a southern-town in the United States during World War II. The Factory makes parachutes, not cigarettes, Don José became Corporal Joe of the military police unit guarding the factory; Escamillo became Husky Miller, a prize fighter. The gypsy girls Frasquita and Mercedes with their smuggler friends El Dancairo and El Remendado became Frankie, Myrt, Rum and Dink. Most importantly, Hammerstein restored the original form of the opera – alternate passages of spoken dialogue and music – as Bizet created it for the Opera Comique. Our scene takes place in Billy Pastor's Cafe. Three weeks earlier, Carmen having brawled with one of the factory girls was arrested and placed in the custody of Joe. En route to the guardhouse she appeals to him to set her free, promising to meet him at Pastor's. Joe succombs [[succumbs]] and is in turn arrested by his sergeant for neglect of duty. Tonight, his sentence completed, Carmen awaits Joe's arrival. CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Carmen - Inez Matthews Frankie - Joy Mearimore McLean Myrt - Berniece Hall Rum - Walter P. Brown Dink - Clyde Turner Sgt. Brown - George Marshall Husky Miller - Lawrence Winters Corporal Joe - Luther Soxon INTERMISSION Page 11 1956-57 100 one night stands across the US & Canada [[/program]]
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