The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1976 July

Program from the Central City Opera House Association's 1976 production of "The Ballad of Baby Doe."

Cast includes: Ellis Acker (old silver miner/Father Chapelle, priest at the wedding/stage dororman of the Tabor Grand Theater), Carlos Serrano (saloon bartender), Frederick Burchinal (Horace Tabor/mayor of leadville), Adib Fazah/Michael Myers/Joseph Wilson/Robert Lyon/Robert Hussa (Sam, Busky, Barney Jacob - cronies & associations of Tabor), Kristine Ciesinski and Martha Toney (Kate, Meg - dance hall entertainers), Muriel Costa-Greenspon and Margaret Yauger (Augusta - wife ofHorace Tabor), Gianna Rolandi and Paula Seibel (Mrs. Elizabeth - baby doe, a miner's wife), Madeleine Mines, Monica Robinson, Ellen Grogan, Betsy Hoover (Sarah, Mary, Emily, Effie - old friend's of Augusta), Bruce Hanson (cousin Jack), Martha Toney (Samantha, a maid), Joseph Wilson (a clerk at the Clarendon Hotel), Carlos Serrano (Albert, a bellboy), Sharon Abel and Kathryne Fowler (Mama McCourt, Baby Doe's mother), Michael Myers, Joseph Wilson, Carlos Serrano, Michael Burt (Four Washington Dandies), Kryste Johnson, Gary Jordan, Cindy Sheppard, Marc Soto (McCourt Family), David Austin (footman at the Willard Hotel), Charles Emery (a waiter), Jonathan Green (Chester A Arthur, president of the U.S.), Juanita Pisano and Hilary Trampler (Elizabeth, child of Horace and Baby Doe), Arlette Askabuab, Christiana Mason, Nicole Burchinal (Silver Dollar, child of Horace and Baby Doe), Joseph Wilson (mayor of Leadville), Herbert Eckhoff and Malcolm Smith (William Jennings Bryan, Democratic presidential candidate), Michael Burt (a Denver Politician), and Martha Toney (Silver Dollar-grown up).

Production staff includes: Douglas Moore (composer), David Effron (conductor), James Lucas (stage director), Klaus Holm (settings recreated and lighting), John Latouche (libretto), Emerson Buckley (guest conductor), Donald Oenslager (original production design), Patton Campbell (costumes design), and Duain Wolfe (chorus master)