Escapade
Comedy in three acts by Roger MacDougall
While a self-important British pacifist is busy writing a peace manifesto, his three hell-raising sons (all off-stage characters, one of whom is named Icarus) leave boarding school, "borrow" a plane and fly to Geneva to make a militant peace appeal.
Performances
| 48th Street Theatre Broadway | New York, NY | Nov. 18 to 28, 1953 (13 performances) |
Cast (In Order of Appearance)
Stella Hampden ..................... Ursula Jeans Mrs. Hampden ...................... Margery Maude Peter Henderson ................. Murray Matheson William Saxon ....................... Peter Pagan Sir Harold Cookham ............... Arthur Marlowe John Hampden ....................... Brian Aherne Walters .............................. John Moore Dr. Skillingworth ............... Melville Cooper Miss Betts ......................... Marie Paxton Paxton ............................. Rex Thompson Daventry ......................... Roddy McDowall Andrew Deeson ..................... Felix Deebank Molly ............................. Carroll Baker George .......................... Nicholas Howard
Production
Directed by Alfred de Liagre Jr.Production designed by Donald Oenslager
Produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr. and Roger L. Stevens with Henry Sherek
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Ten-year-old Rex Thompson is a delight as a glib schoolboy and Roddy McDowall is equally good as a disciple of the philosophic Icarus. — Theatre Arts (February 1954) |