By Ray Bradbury
Tobias Andersen and Robert
O'Reilly
Director Terrence Shank
and Playwright Ray Bradbury viewing a model of the set
Produced and Directed by
Set Design
Lighting and Sound Design
Projection Art
Costume Design
Audio/Visual Effects engineered
by
assisted by
Projection Effects
Production Stage Manager
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Terrence Shank
Gene Mazzanti
Terrence Shank
Michael Minor
Patrick Duffy Whitbeck and
Conrad Wolff
Steven Barker
Sandy Cupples
Audio Visual Laboratories
Michael Wadler
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CAST (in order of appearance):
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Guy
Montag
Black
Holden
Captain Beatty
Clarisse
Mildred
Paramedic #1
Paramedic #2
Mrs. Hudson
Professor Faber
Helen
Alice
Aristotle
Tolkien
Emily Bronte
Edmund Rostand
Dostoyevsky
Antoine de St. Exupery
Tolstoy
Melville
Oscar Wilde
Lillian Hellman
Lewis Carroll
Plato
Robert Louis Stevenson
Voices
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Robert O’Reilly
Bradley Della Valle
Dennis Sullivan
Tobias Anderson
Kathleen Coyne
Sharon Schlaerth
James Horan
Scott Feraco
Ivy Bethune
Stuart Lancaster
Sharon Berryhill
Barbara Beckley
Robert Ackerman
Scott Dupree
Denise Damico
Theresa Bailey
Arnie Shamblin
Nelson Ackerman
Thomas Van Buren
Greg Probst
James McGee
Alma Carey
Maggie Bodek
Joseph Barone
Philip Cary Jones
Judy Bohannon, Denise Damico,
Greg Probst, Toni Sawyer, Madonna Young
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Time: The Future
Revising the Flames, Rewriting
the Fires
a note by
Ray Bradbury
Back in 1950 I wrote
a short novel THE FIREMAN in some 25,000 words, all written on a dime-each-half-hour
pay typewriter located in the basement of the UCLA Library. I revised and
added some 25,000 words more, working in the same library, in the summer
of 1953. With its new title FARENHEIT 451, the book was published in October,
1953. The book’s genesis? Hanging around the Waukegan Fire House in northen
Illinois when I was a boy, thinking about fireproof houses later on when
I was a young man.
Now, twenty-six years after
the novel’s publication, and thirteen years after Francois Truffaut’s evocative
film, I called all of my characters together inside my head one night and
said to them:
What’s new? What’s
happened to all of you in the past years? In what secret ways have you
grown? What can you tell me that you didn’t tell back in 1950 and 1953?
We have all grown old together, the dreamer and the dreamed. Step forward
now, and within the framework of the novel as it was, dare to tell me some
new things about your most secret thoughts, both frightening and beautiful.
One of my characters
stepped forward and spoke. I listened and wrote. The result, 8 weeks later,
was the play which will now be performed.
Where did I find the title?
I called the Los Angeles Fire Chief and asked the temperature at which
book-paper caught fire and burned. His answer? FARENHEIT 451.
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