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The Diary of Anne Frank
by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
(base upon the book, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl)

The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin,
was first presented at the Cort Theatre, New York City on October 5, 1955.

A 1997 Broadway revival at the Music Box Theatre,
directed by James Lapine, featured a new adaptation
of the play by Wendy Kesselman.

Produced in arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

CAST
(in order of appearance)

Mr. Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON HERDER
Miep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNA DIBLEY
Mrs. Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BROOKLYN STAUFFER
Mr. Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL DVORAK II
Peter Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMERON ROLLINS
Mrs. Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALISSA WACHTER
Margot Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CORA MACIAS
Anne Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATI LAWREY
Mr. Kraler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEVE SCHREADER
Mr. Dussel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CD STACHOUR
SETTING
Amsterdam, World War II and immediately thereafter.
The Diary of Anne Frank will be performed in two acts
with one fifteen minute intermission.
PRODUCTION STAFF
Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNE GILMAN
Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM DEMING
Light Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TONY DIES
Sound Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAKE HOWARD
Asst. Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KALE GANFIELD
Asst. Light Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN MCCARTY
Asst. Sound Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATIE DARSOW
Running Crew: ANNE GILMAN, CORY RUSHLO,

Sign Interpreters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHARI ESTEP

SUSAN NELSON
TECHNICAL CREW MEMBERS
DAVID ANDRESS
MIKE PETRI
TINA BARREIRO
JAYME PHILLIPS
JOE CASEY
MATT RABE
KATIE DARSOW
RYAN RAMBAUM
ADAM DEMING
CORY RUSHLO
TONY DIES
RYAN LANGENFELD
JASON ESPERSEN
DAVID SCHWARTZ
KALE GANFIELD
KEVIN McCARTY
ANDY GAWBOY
LYNDA STAUS
ANNE GILMAN
BECKY MROZINSKI
JASON HERDER
BRIAN SWANSON
JAKE HOWARD
KRISTIN WAHLUND
LUKE JONAS

ARTISTIC STAFF
Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THOM HOFFMAN
Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN MILLER
Scenic & Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IAN FLOYD
Costume Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARIN MILLER
Sound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYAN KHALU
Properties Mistress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETTY DEMING
Musical Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BARBARA HANSON
Ticket Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETTY DEMING
Assistant to the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMY JACOBSON

Diary of a Young Girl: An Instant Classic
When the American edition of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was published by Doubleday in 1952, it became an instant bestseller. Novelist Meyer Levin wrote a front page essay "The Child Behind the Secret Door" for the New York Times Book Review proclaiming the importance of the work: "Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic', and yet no other designation serves... Anne Frank's voice becomes the voice of six million vanished Jewish souls." The translation, as edited by Otto Frank and its original European publishers, has remained in print and on school reading lists ever since.
The Diary of Anne Frank, 1955 and 1997
October 5, 1955, The Diary of Anne Frank opened on Broadway starring Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank and Susan Strasberg as Anne. Praise for the production was widespread. The play went on to win the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as three Tony Awards, including Best Play of the 1955-56 season. The Diary of Anne Frank eventually played a total of 717 performances on Broadway before being produced throughout America and the world in professional and amateur theaters.
The publication of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition in 1995 restored the edited portions of the diary, removed by Otto Frank and the original publishers, which dealt with Anne's openly mixed feelings toward her family, her burgeoning womanhood, and her Judaism. The Chicago Tribune praised, "The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardship and passions."
The advent of the 1995 edition, and new entries and nuances of Anne's character that were revealed in the Definitive Edition, prompted producers to re-examine the play. Award-winning director James Lapine was hired to direct the new production, for which Wendy Kesselman would adapt the script. The new production of The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997 was not as successful commercially or critically as its predecessor largely due to its being more bluntly dramatic including a new ending making explicit Anne's final fate and the Nazi presence. Some critics also felt that playing up Anne's religion distorted one of Otto Frank's original points: the Annex inhabitants were killed because, even though they weren't particularly religious, they were still Jews. To the Nazis, that was all that mattered.
Anne's Legacy: A "Universal, Idealistic Figure"
Through their first drafts emphasized the mischievous side of Anne's personality, the final version emphasized her optimism and idealism. "As bright and shining as a banner," "warm," "tender" -- these became descriptions not only of the play but of Anne Frank. The words, "in spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart" (lifted out of context*) encapsulated the image of Anne Frank as a universal, idealistic figure. The first popularization of the events of the Holocaust, the play was very much a product of its time, embracing a sense of assimilation and universalism. In 1959, the film version starring Millie Perkins as Anne Frank was directed by George Stevens.

(*The full quote from Anne's diary (7/15/44): "Its difficult in times like
these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be
crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals;
they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still
believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos,
suffering and death. I see the world as slowly being transformed into a
wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy
us too, I hear the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the
sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better...")
Anne Frank and the rest of the people hiding in the secret annex were betrayed and arrested on August 4th, 1944. The last sighting of Anne at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp occurred shortly before her death by her friend Hanneli. She is described as being seen through barbed wire, "naked, her head shaved, covered with lice. 'I don't have anybody anymore,' she weeps."

Anne Frank at Rosemount High School
The RHS Theatre Arts Program has chosen to perform Goodrich and Hackett's original script as written. The Diary of Anne Frank remains a moving testament to the courage, resourcefulness and humanity of Anne Frank and the more than 6,000,000 Jews who died with her.
This article contains text and material found on the official website of the1997 Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank: ww.annefrankonbroadway.com
See also:
"Dark at the Top of the Stairs," Nancy Franklin, The New Yorker, 2/15/97
"Who Owns Anne Frank?" Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 10/6/97
"Restoring the Identity of Anne Frank," by Richard Berstein, New York Times (Minneapolis Star Tribune (1/1/99).
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Doubleday 1995

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Les Blake - Irish Loon
Steve Boehlke - RHS Music Department
Chuck Brooks - RHS Theatre Arts Staff
Linda Iverson ú RHS Receptionist
Kathy Ellerton & Kathy McLaughlin - RHS Staff Resource
Barbara Hanson - RHS Music Department
James Norris - RHS Technical Education Department
Barb Schwartz - RHS Performing Arts Secretary
Neal Wallace - "Event Pro" Technical Production Setvices
Kathy Benson and the District Graphics Arts Staff
RHS Custodial Staff
Parents and Families of the Cast & Crew


	~The Diary of Anne Frank~
	By Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

	~Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the Critic's Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre, The Diary of Anne Frank is the story of a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. Betrayed to the Nazis, arrested and deported to a Nazi concentration camp, Anne Frank died of typhus in March of 1945 at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old. Her diary, saved during the war, has been translated into 55 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world. This drama has "the quality of glowing , ineradicable life--life in its warmth, its wonder, its spasms of anguish and its wild and flaring humor" NY Herald-Tribune. It is a "wonderfully sensitive and theatrically craftsmanlike narrative of the real-life legacy left us by a spirited and straightforward Jewish girl. . . as bright as a banner" NY Times. "
	"A story of courage, tenacity, and the endurance of the human spirit."
	April 6, 7, 8 at 7 PM April 9 at 2 PM
	RHS Performing Arts Center

The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (base upon the book, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl) The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Garson Kanin, was first presented at the Cort Theatre, New York City on October 5, 1955. A 1997 Broadway revival at the Music Box Theatre, directed by James Lapine, featured a new adaptation of the play by Wendy Kesselman. Produced in arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. CAST (in order of appearance) Mr. Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON HERDER Miep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNA DIBLEY Mrs. Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BROOKLYN STAUFFER Mr. Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL DVORAK II Peter Van Daan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMERON ROLLINS Mrs. Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALISSA WACHTER Margot Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CORA MACIAS Anne Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATI LAWREY Mr. Kraler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEVE SCHREADER Mr. Dussel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CD STACHOUR SETTING Amsterdam, World War II and immediately thereafter. The Diary of Anne Frank will be performed in two acts with one fifteen minute intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNE GILMAN Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM DEMING Light Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TONY DIES Sound Board Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAKE HOWARD Asst. Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KALE GANFIELD Asst. Light Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN MCCARTY Asst. Sound Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATIE DARSOW Running Crew: ANNE GILMAN, CORY RUSHLO, JASON ESPERSON, RYAN RAMBAUM, KRISTIN WAHLUND Sign Interpreters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHARI ESTEP SUSAN NELSON TECHNICAL CREW MEMBERS DAVID ANDRESS MIKE PETRI TINA BARREIRO JAYME PHILLIPS JOE CASEY MATT RABE KATIE DARSOW RYAN RAMBAUM ADAM DEMING CORY RUSHLO TONY DIES RYAN LANGENFELD JASON ESPERSEN DAVID SCHWARTZ KALE GANFIELD KEVIN McCARTY ANDY GAWBOY LYNDA STAUS ANNE GILMAN BECKY MROZINSKI JASON HERDER BRIAN SWANSON JAKE HOWARD KRISTIN WAHLUND LUKE JONAS ARTISTIC STAFF Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THOM HOFFMAN Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN MILLER Scenic & Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IAN FLOYD Costume Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARIN MILLER Sound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RYAN KHALU Properties Mistress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETTY DEMING Musical Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BARBARA HANSON Ticket Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETTY DEMING Assistant to the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMY JACOBSON Diary of a Young Girl: An Instant Classic When the American edition of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl was published by Doubleday in 1952, it became an instant bestseller. Novelist Meyer Levin wrote a front page essay "The Child Behind the Secret Door" for the New York Times Book Review proclaiming the importance of the work: "Anne Frank's diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label 'classic', and yet no other designation serves... Anne Frank's voice becomes the voice of six million vanished Jewish souls." The translation, as edited by Otto Frank and its original European publishers, has remained in print and on school reading lists ever since. The Diary of Anne Frank, 1955 and 1997 October 5, 1955, The Diary of Anne Frank opened on Broadway starring Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank and Susan Strasberg as Anne. Praise for the production was widespread. The play went on to win the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as three Tony Awards, including Best Play of the 1955-56 season. The Diary of Anne Frank eventually played a total of 717 performances on Broadway before being produced throughout America and the world in professional and amateur theaters. The publication of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition in 1995 restored the edited portions of the diary, removed by Otto Frank and the original publishers, which dealt with Anne's openly mixed feelings toward her family, her burgeoning womanhood, and her Judaism. The Chicago Tribune praised, "The new edition reveals a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardship and passions." The advent of the 1995 edition, and new entries and nuances of Anne's character that were revealed in the Definitive Edition, prompted producers to re-examine the play. Award-winning director James Lapine was hired to direct the new production, for which Wendy Kesselman would adapt the script. The new production of The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997 was not as successful commercially or critically as its predecessor largely due to its being more bluntly dramatic including a new ending making explicit Anne's final fate and the Nazi presence. Some critics also felt that playing up Anne's religion distorted one of Otto Frank's original points: the Annex inhabitants were killed because, even though they weren't particularly religious, they were still Jews. To the Nazis, that was all that mattered. Anne's Legacy: A "Universal, Idealistic Figure" Through their first drafts emphasized the mischievous side of Anne's personality, the final version emphasized her optimism and idealism. "As bright and shining as a banner," "warm," "tender" -- these became descriptions not only of the play but of Anne Frank. The words, "in spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart" (lifted out of context) encapsulated the image of Anne Frank as a universal, idealistic figure. The first popularization of the events of the Holocaust, the play was very much a product of its time, embracing a sense of assimilation and universalism. In 1959, the film version starring Millie Perkins as Anne Frank was directed by George Stevens. (The full quote from Anne's diary (7/15/44): "Its difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals; they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world as slowly being transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I hear the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better...") Anne Frank and the rest of the people hiding in the secret annex were betrayed and arrested on August 4th, 1944. The last sighting of Anne at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp occurred shortly before her death by her friend Hanneli. She is described as being seen through barbed wire, "naked, her head shaved, covered with lice. 'I don't have anybody anymore,' she weeps." Anne Frank at Rosemount High School The RHS Theatre Arts Program has chosen to perform Goodrich and Hackett's original script as written. The Diary of Anne Frank remains a moving testament to the courage, resourcefulness and humanity of Anne Frank and the more than 6,000,000 Jews who died with her. This article contains text and material found on the official website of the1997 Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank: ww.annefrankonbroadway.com See also: "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," Nancy Franklin, The New Yorker, 2/15/97 "Who Owns Anne Frank?" Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 10/6/97 "Restoring the Identity of Anne Frank," by Richard Berstein, New York Times (Minneapolis Star Tribune (1/1/99). The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Doubleday 1995 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Les Blake - Irish Loon Steve Boehlke - RHS Music Department Chuck Brooks - RHS Theatre Arts Staff Linda Iverson ú RHS Receptionist Kathy Ellerton & Kathy McLaughlin - RHS Staff Resource Barbara Hanson - RHS Music Department James Norris - RHS Technical Education Department Barb Schwartz - RHS Performing Arts Secretary Neal Wallace - "Event Pro" Technical Production Setvices Kathy Benson and the District Graphics Arts Staff RHS Custodial Staff Parents and Families of the Cast & Crew
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