L e a n s r d A . A n d e m , ~ & ~ r M. Seth Relnes, A&nc chhctur

Proudiy Presents

Susan !haforth Hayes

Directed B r H. Wesley K e ~ e y

Lighting By: Production Stage Manager: Bradford D. Reissig David S. Stewart

There will be one 15 minute jntermission.

I May 17 - 21, 1995 I SpeclaI Thanks To:

Red Barn Antiques for the desks and chairs on the set. Gtmge Rutledge af Rutledge Chevrolet. Oldmobile, Cadillac, Geo, Inc.

for proyid'i an automobi for Bill and Susan during their stay in SuiI'wan,

Bill Hayes BILL HAYES burst onto the early national television scene in Olsen 8: Johnson's madcap series Fire-Ball Fun-For-All. From there he was tapped by Producer Max LJebman to be his featured singer on Your Show o f Shows starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Bill made a sparkling Broadway debut in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Me and Juliet, and followed this with a gold record for "The Ballad of Davy Crockett." Bill's two major films were the Warner Bros. farce/musical Stop! You're Killing Me and Otto Preminger's ?'he Cardinal. He hosted NBC-Radio's Monitor for a year, was national spokesman for Oldsmobile for four years, took Bye Bye Binlie on its one-year national tour. In addition to these highlights of the 50's and 60's, Bill's career was interspersed with variety performances on TV with Kate Smith, Ed Sullivan, Perry Como, Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Jo Stafford, Jack Paar, Patti Page, Bing Crosby, and the Bell Telephone Hour; dramatic TV shows such as US. Steel Hour, Hallmark Hall of Fame and Carol Burnett's Once Upon a Mattress; vaudeville turns at the Chicago Theater and New York's Roxy; and cafes such as the Blue Angel, the St. Regis Hotel in New York, the Drake Hotel in Chicago, the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. Theater tours included Student Rince, Anything Goes, Camelot, On a CIear Day, and Pajama Game. And, in addition to the New York City Center revival of Brigadoon, Bill's considerable regional theater appearances included On the Town, Of Thee ISing, Merry Widow, Mika- do, Miss Liberty, Music in the Air, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, South Pacific, Out of this World, Fanny, Dark of the Moon, Happy Hunting, Good News, Oklahoma!, Girl Cmzy, Who Was That Lady?, Where's Charley?, Foxy, Sunday in New York, Green Grow the Lilacs, She Loves Me, Moon is Blue, Fantasticks, Carousel, Superman, Song of Norway, Desert Song, Guys & Dolls, and George M!. Bill's list totals over 80 musicals and 20 straight plays, at theaters in nearly all 50 states! In the 70's,80's and go's, Bill Hayes has portrayed "Doug Williamsn on NBC's Emmy-award-winning Days of Our Lives (1800 episodes!), for which he garnered two Emmy nominations and several Best Actor Awards from national publications. Also during that period, Bill appeared as a regular on Hollywood Squares and as a frequent guest with Johnny, Phil, Dinah, Mike and Merv, more recently with Oprah, Geraldo and Marilu. In the past decade, Bill has guest-starred on TV in Hoopeman, Mat- lock, Superior Court, Divorce Court, and Cop Rock, and the award-win- ning docudrama-film Wrestling With God. His 1992 stints with Ann Blyth at the Dunes in Vegas and the Rainbow and Stars in New York drew raves from the critics: "Bill Hayes still belts 'em out!" "I especial- ly enjoyed his 'Music of the Night' from Phantom. " In 1993, Bill and his wife Susan toured Olioer! in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur; in 1994, he concertized with Ann Blyth, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Georgia From tiere.

Souao Seaforth Hayes SUSAN SEAFORTH HAYES, professional actress by trade, b a historian by daitt. Her degrre from Los Angeles City College was in history, and the st& of b o b at her deskside reflects an intense interest In the Amwritan Wag BUR^ &BIS Native American cultures. Had she not bein so €dented a gmfmmea she probably would be teaching today,

t.bie that Suriaar would spend her life on stage and

I%$ she discovered the demandlog world'of soaps Susan had to CUFW W aeakmk wort Tlts Young Mammeds (2 yrs.), C e m l h s p C Wfl v.f, Rk Young and tk R&~W (5 yrs.) and Days of Our Ljwes (20 yeats!j put a serious dent in her classroom attendance record. This was nut without its rewards, however, as it produced for her four Emmy numinattons, several Best Actress Awards, a Time Magazine ewer, years of TopTen Lists in fan mags, and even a husband, when In 1974 Susan Seaforth married her Days co-star Bill Hayes.

In recent years, Susan has guest-lectured at Los Angeles Valley College and Boston University, and has conducted a Soap Opera Workshop, even though her time still was basically devoted to stage, TV and film performing. This has included O ~ r n a ! , Ttre Two af Us, I Do I Do, Same Time Next Yeor, Harvey, Matlock, Headmat, Wmtliing with God, Dream Machine, 42ndStmet, Social Security, and a 1993 13-week tour of Oliue~l in Florida, Singapore and hddaysta! En May, 1994, Susan wowed Birmingham, Alabama audiences with her memorable rendition of "Mama Rose" in Gypsy, then toured Lorn latlers wtth her husband Bill.

Most students sit in history class and dream of being on stage. Stage- TV-and-film star Susan Seaforth Hayes keeps dreaming sf the day she may again take her seat in a schoolroom. Do dreams come true? Odds are, in Susan's case, they will. Meantime, catch her as Mrs. Rublnstein on Platypus Man.

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