Calamity Jane
Karingal High School
October 1973
In the wild-west outpost of Deadwood City, 1876, we find the sharpshooting tomboy, Calamity Jane surrounded by cowboys, townsfolk, and the famous Wild Bill Hickok. After a mix-up in the talent pool at Deadwood’s saloon-theatre, Calamity goes to Chicago to import to Deadwood the glamorous actress, Adelaide Adams, but returns by mistake with her maid, Katie Brown instead. Back in Deadwood, Katie’s inability to perform is overcome as she wins the heart of the young Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin, and when Calamity sheds her tomboy persona at a ball at the local Fort and becomes a true woman, she realises that she loves Wild Bill Hickok.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director | Ray Burgess |
Musical Director | Basil Gleeson |
Choreographer | Coralie Carson |
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Production Co-ordinator | Arthur Mead |
| Jim Veitch |
Stage Manger | John Rekers |
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Assistant to the Director | Martyn Keeley |
Lighting Director | Bruce Morton |
Scenic Design | Pat Morton |
Wardrobe Mistress | Celia Hallam |
Promotions Manager | Peter hart |
Ticket Secretary | Isobel Myring |
Front of House | Veronica Ferguson |
| Tom Hooke |
Program Design | Peter Hart |
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Scenic Construction | Tom Hand |
Properties | Norma macer |
| Sue Hooke |
| Helen Currie |
Prompt | Judy Page |
Backstage | Audrey Carruthers |
| John McCormack |
| Tony Evans |
| Neil Weatherill |
| Doug Ferguson |
| Jim Veitch |
| Rod Carruthers |
| Geoff Carter |
Lighting | Ric Merrin |
| Owen Marsh |
| Colin Tyrus |
| Clem Macer |
| Richard Paynting |
| Mark Smith |
Wardrobe | Elizabeth Palmer |
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Violin | Irene Bullock |
| John Conyers |
| Denis Boyce |
| Nellie Byrant |
Viola | Heather Birrell |
Bass | Don More |
Flute | Roger Bruce |
Reeds | Ian Clapperton |
| Vic Knowles |
| Alan Tacon |
Trumpet | Malcolm Torry |
| Jeanette Shepherd |
| Lionel Mussell |
| Betty Shepherd |
Trombone | Don Hale |
| Lorraine Shepherd |
Horn | Greg Keogh |
Percussion | John Annable |
Pianist | Coral Nicholls |
CAST
Calamity Jane | Diane Manley |
Wild Bill Hickok | Barry Woodford |
Lieut Danny Gilmartin | Bill Kennedy |
Katie Brown | Rhonda Horwood |
Henry Miller | John Ross |
Susan | Julia Taphouse |
Francis Fryer | Arthur Mead |
Adelaide Adams | Judy McLorrinan |
Rattlesnake | Stan Riley |
Doc Pierce | Chappie Siddans |
Joe | Peter Moon |
Hank | John Langman |
Pete | Bruce Shepherd |
Female Chorus | Cheryl Annabel |
| Eadie Baldwin |
| Sarnia Birch |
| Judith Breeze |
| Eunice Brown |
| Gai Brown |
| Elkje Buffington |
| Beth Coops |
| Leanne Coops |
| Lorraine Duff |
| Margaret Duff |
| Sue Gray |
| Bev Hann |
| Joan Hooke |
| June Kensell |
| Marissa kennedy |
| Kete McMillan |
| Hilary Moon |
| Sue Moore |
| Pat Morton |
| Terry Overden |
| Betty Packham |
| Amy Parry |
| Joan Pearson |
| Eileen Ramsey |
| Jean Riley |
| Phillipa Stingby |
| Glanda Watson |
| Sue Ward |
Male Chorus | Grant Kennedy |
| Dusty Lewis |
| Richard latchford |
| Arthur Roberts |
| Karl Vennemann |
| Denis Wiltshire |
| Steve hayes |
| Peter Chaffey |
| John McCormack |
Dancers | Lynne Brown |
| Christine Hoffman |
| Sue Hooke |
| Joanne Johnson |
| Linda Johnson |
| Sue Moore |
| Terry Ovenden |
| Lindy Pearson |
| Sian Rodda |
| Jenny Schlager |
| Pat Sharpin |
| Peter Chafey |
| John Langman |
| John McCormack |
