Dear Ruth

Using her older sister’s name, a young girl becomes romantic penpals with an overseas soldier. When the soldier returns, he finds that his distant lover is already engaged, but through a series of hilarious complications and plot twists, the elder sister becomes entirely convinced that her original engagement was a mistake and decides, at the very end, to marry the soldier anyway.
Dear Ruth was a 1944 Broadway play by Norman Krasna, later made into a romantic comedy film starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman and Edward Arnold.
This comedic production was staged ‘arena’ style (theatre-in-the-round) in Falstaff Tavern, the original restaurant facility adjacent to the Old Globe Theatre. In 1969, the tavern was remodeled to become the 225-seat Cassius Carter Centre Stage.
A JT Premiere!
Cast
Lt William Seawright - Niel Anstead
Martha Seawright - Gay Shepherd
Ruth Wilkins - Pat Broach
Miriam Wilkins - Carol Wilson, Joan Preston
Sgt Chuck Vincent - Carl Tressler
Dora - Daisy Rufus
Mr Harry Wilkins - John Stein
Mrs Edith Wilkins - Barbara Hall
Albert Kummer - Ole Kittleson