Production History

Bruce Graham’s Something Intangible was presented during CST’s Season 29 (2012–2013). Set in Hollywood in 1941, the comedy-drama follows fictional studio heads Tony and Dale Wiston, inspired by Walt and Roy Disney. Tony wants to move beyond their successful cartoon dog, Petey Pup, and create an animated feature accompanied by classical music. Dale struggles to reconcile that ambition with budgets, deadlines, and family responsibilities. The story draws on the development of Fantasia.

CST Connections

Linda McDonald played Mrs. Mannerly in Mrs. Mannerly earlier in Season 29. She later played Abby Binder in Ripcord (2017).
James Polk Wilson designed sets and lighting for Mrs. Mannerly, My Name Is Asher Lev, and Out of Sterno during the same season.
Sunny Dawn Marler stage-managed Mrs. Mannerly and was credited as Sunny Marler for Out of Sterno.
Joe DiBello subsequently played Felix Artifex in Mistakes Were Made (2014) and Gerald Halverson in Murderers (2009).
Ginger Gilmartin-Smith previously played Patsy in Side Man (2003).
Terry Veal directed Out of Sterno, the Season 29 finale, immediately following this production.
C.W. Bardsher played eight additional characters in Out of Sterno and later shared the Schmendiman role in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2023).
Rhonda Clark also designed costumes for Mrs. Mannerly, My Name Is Asher Lev, and Out of Sterno.
Craig Pruitt previously played Raymond Shaw in CST’s The Manchurian Candidate (1996), which featured John Q. Wilson as Senator Johnny Iselin.

Press and Photography

“Carpenter Square Theatre Explores 1940s Hollywood With ‘Something Intangible’” — The Oklahoman, May 22, 2013, review attributed in the supplied research to John Brandenburg.
“Carpenter Square Theatre Gets Disney-fied With ‘Something Intangible’” — The Norman Transcript, reported May 24, 2013, coverage lead.
BroadwayWorld production registry, listing May 17–June 8, 2013. Jun 8, 2013)
June 2013 magazine archive , page 26, additional supplied coverage lead.

Acknowledgments

Additional Show Sponsor — Laurel Van Horn Jaworsky

Supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Allied Arts, and Kirkpatrick Family Fund.

Licensing

Current performance licensing is available through Concord Theatricals, which lists Something Intangible as a Dramatists Play Service title.

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