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Ann Arbor News, July 19, 1972
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19
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July
Year
1972
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It’s Horrible

Various expressions of horror on the faces of (left to right) Dolores Browers, Jim Grenier, Susan Morris and Kathy Brueger are caused by their viewing a would-be suicide in the streets of New York in a scene from “The Hundred and First,” which will be presented by the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Summer ’72 program.

Old, New Plays Start Thursday

Ann Arbor Civic Theatre Summer '72 will present an ancient Roman comedy and a modern play about welfare at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday in the Civic Theatre Building, 201 Mulholland.

Director Larry Harbison said “The Hundred and First,” which is about a family which never quite makes the New York Times list of “100 neediest cases,” is a combination of “ ‘All in the Family’, Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and Jules Feiffer.”

“Their attempts to become qualified for the list leads to some hilarious, ridiculous and absurd scenes,” he said.

Members of the cast are Charles Sutherland, Dolores Browers, Burnette Staebler, Kathy Bruger, John Phillips, Susan Morris, Jim Grenier, Susan Crippen, Peter Hedlesky, Ed Stein, Carl Kozis and Gene Silverman.

Jack Raeburn is directing the ancient Roman comedy, “The Menaechmi” by Plautus, a Roman farce dealing with the search of brother for his lost twin, which has since been used by such playwrights as Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.

Members of the cast are Susan Morris, Ed Stein, Charles Sutherland, Jim Posante, Jim Grenier, Julia Spina, Erica Pelz, Peter Mellencamp, John Phillips, Deborah Brown and Susan Chapman.