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Production Staff
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Director: Dwight Watson
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Asst. Director: Kaizaad Navroze Kotwal '91
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Scenic Designer: Rob Hartz
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Light Designer: Jay Baltisberger '89
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Costume Designer: Laura Conners
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Stage Manager: Roland Edwards Morin '91
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Cast List
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“Froggy” LeSueur: Hollis G. DeWitt
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Charlie Baker: Christopher Miller
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Betty Meeks: Jamie Ritchie Watson
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Rev. David Marshall Lee: Steven A. Vierk '92
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Catherine Simms: Ramona Zachary
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Owen Musser: Simon A. Bogigian '91
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Ellard Simms: Eric Daman
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Townspeople: Bill Craft, R. Todd Perry, Nathan K. Risk '92, Aaron A. Spetz, Paul Toohey
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Production Assistance
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Master Electrician: John Panozzo '91
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Lightboard Operator: David Short '89
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Soundboard Operator: Charles Ngowe '92
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Graphics: Laura Conners
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The late actor/playwright Larry Shue's comedy The Foreigner won seven Obie Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production). The scene of this comic romp is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy” LeSeur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time “Froggy” has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So “Froggy,” before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone, Charlie overhears more than he should, including the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced evangelist and his associate, a leader in the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Presuming that Charlie, in his guise as a “foreigner”, can't understand their conversations, the minister and his henchman reveal most of their plans in front of him. The result is that shy Charlie is “liberated” by his disguise and sets out to assist the victims of the “bad guys.” The New Yorker drama critic, Edith Oliver, wrote of the play, “I laughed start to finish at one comic surprise after another.”
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This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
