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It Runs in the Family (II)
Ray Cooney
Opening Date:
November 29, 2002
Closing Date:
December 21, 2002
An eminent London doctor’s carefully ordered life collapses into outrageous disguises and mistaken identities when a former lover reveals a long-kept family secret just before Christmas.
Cast & Crew
CAST
Don Taylor — Dr. David Mortimore
Kit Haraughty — Dr. Mike Connolly
Pam Fields — Rosemary Mortimore
Thomas Pender — Dr. Hubert Bonney
Jennifer Coon — Matron
Clyde Martin — Sir Willoughby Drake
Tatiana Weiss — Jane Tate
Danielle Polk — Sister
John Brumley — Leslie Tate
Rob May — Police Sergeant
Paul Smith — Bill
Vicki Wilcox — Mother
CREW
Sheryl Martin — Director; Sound Design; Set Painting
Steven Gillmore — Set & Lighting Design; Technical Director; Set Construction; Set Painting
Laura Sullivan — Sound Design; Stage Manager; Control Booth; Scenic Artist
Mary Freeh — Costume Coordinator
Rhonda Clark; John Brumley — Set Painting
Rory Littleton; Robert Curry — Running Crew
Production Notes
Second CST staging of Ray Cooney’s holiday hospital farce; CST first presented it in 1994. Original cast has twelve performers (not eleven as stated in some supplemental research). Original webpage credits Mary Freeh as Costume Coordinator, not designer. CST’s Cooney history included Run for Your Wife (1993), It Runs in the Family (1994), Funny Money (1997), and Out of Order (1998). Contemporary press: The Oklahoman, November 29, 2002, https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/11/29/beware-the-christmas-ghosts/62069059007/ ; December 4 review https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/12/04/carpenter-cast-masters-family/62068472007/ . Ten original photos runs_family_2002_01.jpg–10.jpg; recommended primary 04. Special thanks: Kenny Walker, Walker Companies. Cast sponsors: Kim and Scott Weaver. Licensed through Samuel French, Inc.
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