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64-810: Seattle Rep's first home was the Seattle Playhouse, built as part of the fair grounds for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition , Seattle's 1962 World's Fair . The building, extant as of 2009, was renovated in 1987 as a home for the Intiman Theatre . Actor Hal Holbrook had appeared at the Playhouse during the fair, and is believed to be the person who suggested it as a home for a repertory theater company. Seattle businessman and arts patron Bagley Wright and others raised money and recruited artistic leadership to found what became Seattle Repertory Theater ("Seattle Rep" or formerly "The Rep"). Stuart Vaughan

128-494: A US$ 2 million gift from The Kreielsheimer Foundation, a US$ 1 million gift from then board chair Marsha S. Glazer, and the leadership of Capital Campaign chairs Ann Ramsay-Jenkins and Stanley Savage. There are 282 seats total: 192 on the orchestra level (including loge ), plus 90 balcony and box seats. It is approximately 25 feet (7.6 m) from the stage to the rear wall. There are 5 wheelchair locations. The orchestra seating consists of 139 seats in 9 rows, with 8–20 seats per row;

192-536: A bin of balls. The entire exhibition had been originally designed as an exhibit for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair . It was permanently removed around 1980. An aerospace building contained a full-sized lunar module mockup from which suited astronauts would climb out. The Life Building contained the Sea Monster House , a replica of a First Nations longhouse , as well as

256-496: A call for public art which would demonstrate the use of solar energy. The resulting installation was designed by Seattle artist Dan Corson and involves five 10 meter (33 ft) tall sculptures of flowers, inspired by the Australian firewheel tree . The work is titled Sonic Bloom and generates electricity using solar panels mounted in the flower heads. The flowers hum when people approach them and light up at night. Today,

320-632: A chamber music performance by Isaac Stern , Milton Katims , Leonard Rose , Eugene Istomin , the Claiborne Brothers gospel quartet, and the Juilliard String Quartet ; two appearances by newsman Edward R. Murrow ; Bunraku theater; Richard Dyer-Bennet ; Hal Holbrook 's solo show as Mark Twain ; the Count Basie and Benny Goodman jazz orchestras; Lawrence Welk ; Nat King Cole ; and Ella Fitzgerald . Also during

384-728: A fleet of vans that bring hands-on science education to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest. The center also has a division of staff whose purpose is to assist teachers in teaching science to their students. The center's original buildings were the United States Science Pavilion designed by Minoru Yamasaki for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle . The World of Science, along with the Worlds of Art, Entertainment, Commerce and Industry, and Tomorrow were

448-615: A further "symphony of music and color". Under the same roof, the ALA exhibited a "library of the future" (centered on a Univac computer). GM exhibited its vision for highways and vehicles of the future (the latter including the Firebird III ). Pan Am exhibited a giant globe that emphasized the notion that we had come to be able to think of distances between major world cities in hours and minutes rather than in terms of chancy voyages over great distances. RCA (which produced "The Threshold and

512-574: A new church building there; the church used the proceeds to purchase land in the Montlake neighborhood. The Warren Avenue School, a public elementary school with several programs for physically handicapped students, was torn down, its programs dispersed, and provided most of the site of the Coliseum (now Climate Pledge Arena). Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down; they had been run down to

576-406: A petition campaign, in the early 1950s to convince the city council to approve an $ 8.5 million bond issue to build the opera house and sports center needed to attract the fair. Eventually the council approved a $ 7.5 million bond issue with the state of Washington matching that amount. The fair was originally conceived at a Washington Athletic Club luncheon in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of

640-499: A previous movie theater there showed films such as NASA's Apollo 8 (to the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine) and The 21st Century with Walter Cronkite . Before being elected governor of the state of Washington, Dixy Lee Ray , served as Science Center director for many years. Ray helped promote the Science Center among school children by hosting a school-age geared science program televised on Seattle PBS station KCTS-9 . In

704-488: A series of large paintings by Bill Holm introducing Northwest Native motifs. A US$ 15 million performing-arts program at the fair ranged from a boxing championship to an international twirling competition but with no shortage of nationally and internationally famous performers, especially at the new Opera House and Playhouse. After the fair, the Playhouse became the Seattle Repertory Theatre ; in

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768-444: A series of projections contrasted this "best of the future" to "the worst of the present" (over-uniform suburbs, a dreary urban housing project). The exhibit continued with a vision of future transportation (centered on a monorail and high-speed "air cars" on an electrically controlled highway). There was also an " office of the future ", a climate-controlled "farm factory", an automated offshore kelp and plankton harvesting farm,

832-461: A traveling robotic dinosaur exhibit, which led to the center eventually installing a permanent dinosaur display in the 1990s. Pacific Science Center hosted the annual Association of Science and Technology Centers conference in October 1987 and opened several major exhibits in the same period, including Kids Works , Body Works , an animal area, and a tide pool. The Pacific Science Center complex

896-400: A vision of the schools of the future with "electronic storehouses of knowledge", and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue. Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract from President Kennedy's Inaugural Address , followed by

960-511: A working hydraulic model of Puget Sound and the Mount Baker volcanic exhibit. With the physical sciences, the physics witch on Halloween would ask "Would you like to boil blood in a paper cup?" or Groucho Marx would dump liquid nitrogen on the ponds after a demo. The presenters in question here were Janie Mann, who did dynamic combustion shows dressed as a witch circa 1977–78, and Dan Cox, who did physics demos as Groucho Marx in

1024-561: Is an independent, nonprofit science center in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel a passion for discovery , experimentation , and critical thinking . Pacific Science Center serves more than 1 million people each year at its campus adjacent to Seattle Center , at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue, Washington , and in communities and classrooms across

1088-708: Is now called Seattle Center ; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center . Another notable Seattle Center building, the Museum of Pop Culture (earlier called EMP Museum), was built nearly 40 years later and designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere. Seattle mayor Allan Pomeroy is credited with bringing the World's Fair to the city. He recruited community and business leaders, as well as running

1152-477: The Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe . Next, visitors were beckoned into a cluster of cubes containing a model of a "city of the future" (which a few landmarks clearly indicated as Seattle) and its suburban and rural surroundings, seen first by day and later by night. The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting (and a commuter gyrocopter );

1216-551: The Seattle World's Fair ) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington , United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its six-month run. As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life ( see History of Seattle since 1940 ). The fair saw

1280-603: The 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition , but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the Space Race underway and Boeing having "put Seattle on the map" as "an aerospace city", a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped

1344-423: The 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature through technology rather than view it in terms of ecology. In contrast, 12 years later—even in far more conservative Spokane, Washington — Expo '74 took environmentalism as its central theme. The theme of Spokane's Expo '74

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1408-717: The Army Depot in Auburn —as was a site east of the city on the south shore of Lake Sammamish . The site finally selected for the Century 21 Exposition had originally been contemplated for a civic center. The idea of using it for the world's fair came later and brought in federal money for the United States Science Pavilion (now Pacific Science Center) and state money for the Washington State Coliseum (later Seattle Center Coliseum; renamed KeyArena in 1993 after

1472-602: The Masons. The building was eventually incorporated into a theater complex including the Seattle Children's Theatre . Paul Thiry was the fair's chief architect; he also designed the Coliseum building. Among the other architects of the fair, Seattle-born Minoru Yamasaki received one of his first major commissions to build the United States Science Pavilion. Yamasaki would later design New York's World Trade Center . Victor Steinbrueck and John Graham, Jr. designed

1536-475: The Space Needle. Hideki Shimizu and Kazuyuki Matsushita designed the original International Fountain . Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended. One attempt to conserve installations from Century 21 was the creation of a replica "welcoming pole," a number of which originally stood tall over

1600-518: The Threat") exhibited television, radio, and stereo technology, as well as its involvement in space. The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progress. Finally, a Washington state tourist center provided information for fair-goers wishing to tour the state. The World of Commerce and Industry was divided into domestic and foreign areas. The former was sited mainly south of American Way (the continuation of Thomas Street through

1664-412: The Threat", visitors rode a " Bubbleator " into the "world of tomorrow". Music "from another world" and a shifting pattern of lights accompanied them on a 40-second upward journey to a starry space bathed in golden light. Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter , which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with

1728-615: The World's Fair are the Lens and Mirror Machine and a suspended model of the Earth's moon. One of the more notable science exhibits during the World's Fair was a ramp where the buildings were built at a tilt (the "illusion ramp"); this exhibit was reproduced in the late 1990s. The domed Spacerium, now known as the Seattle Laser Dome and used for laser light show , was designed for a wide-angle movie journey through space. Before IMAX ,

1792-412: The budgets nor the tight agreements on concept to realize that vision. In the end, he got exactly enough of a budget to design and build a 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m ) building suitable to hold a variety of exhibition spaces and equally suitable for later conversion to a sports arena and convention facility. During the festival, the building hosted several exhibits. Nearly half of its surface area

1856-527: The car of the future, the Ford Seattle-ite XXI . The Electric Power Pavilion included a 40 feet (12 m)-high fountain made to look like a hydroelectric dam , with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said "dam". The Forest Products Pavilion was surrounded by a grove of trees of various species, and included an all-wood theater and a Society of American Foresters exhibit. Standard Oil of California celebrated, among other things,

1920-509: The cast were Kevin Tighe and Kate Mulgrew . The Bagley Wright Theater is a city-owned facility. The theater has a proscenium stage and a seating capacity of 678 seats. The stage is approximately 65 feet (20 m) to the last row of the house. The Leo Kreielsheimer Theater ("Leo K.") opened in December 1996 as Seattle Rep's "second stage." The Leo K. was made possible in great part to

1984-434: The center for the next two decades. His leadership team in the 1980s included Diane Carlson in public programs, Dennis Schatz in education and exhibits, and Dave Taylor in exhibits. In 1984 the science center took a gamble on hosting the exhibit China: 7000 Years of Discovery . The success of the exhibit helped put PSC on the map as a leading science center. Other notable successes later in the decade were several iterations of

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2048-1056: The center of this was the DuPen Fountain featuring three sculptures by Seattle artist Everett DuPen. The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) brought together an art exhibition unprecedented for the West Coast of the United States . Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were Josef Albers , Willem de Kooning , Helen Frankenthaler , Philip Guston , Jasper Johns , Joan Mitchell , Robert Motherwell , Georgia O'Keeffe , Jackson Pollock , Robert Rauschenberg , Ad Reinhardt , Ben Shahn , and Frank Stella , as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan , Morris Graves , Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey . American sculptors included Leonard Baskin , Alexander Calder , Joseph Cornell , Louise Nevelson , Isamu Noguchi , and 19 others. The 50 international contemporary artists represented included

2112-419: The city sold naming rights to KeyCorp, the company doing business as KeyBank; renamed Climate Pledge Arena in 2021 after naming rights were sold to Amazon.com, Inc). Some of the land had been donated to the city by James Osborne in 1881 and by David and Louisa Denny in 1889. Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church , who had been planning to build

2176-530: The construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail , as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena ) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse ), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit. The site, slightly expanded since the fair,

2240-571: The development of science, ranging from mathematics and astronomy to atomic science and genetics. The Spacearium held up to 750 people at a time for a simulated voyage first through the Solar System and then through the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. Further exhibits presented the scientific method and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual", "Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and

2304-400: The duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use. It served as the site of the Century 21 Club. This membership organization, formed especially for the fair, charged $ 250 for membership and offered lounge, dining room, and other club facilities, as well as a gate pass for the duration of the fair. The city ended up leasing the property after the fair and in 1977 bought it from

2368-587: The earlier conception of a "Festival of the [American] West". In June 1960, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) certified Century 21 as a world's fair. Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. Neither the People's Republic of China, Vietnam nor North Korea were invited. As it happened, the Cold War had an additional effect on

2432-426: The fact that the world's first service station opened in Seattle in 1907. The fair's Bell Telephone (now AT&T Inc. ) exhibit was featured in a short film called "Century 21 Calling...", which was later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 . There were also several religious pavilions. Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi 's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at

2496-629: The fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the Ringling Brothers Circus , Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ' Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist Billy Graham . The fair and the city were the setting of the Elvis Presley movie It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), with a young Kurt Russell making his first screen appearance. Location shooting began on September 4 and concluded nearly two weeks later. The film would be released

2560-509: The fair. President John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis . The fair's vision of the future displayed a technologically based optimism that did not anticipate any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in

2624-490: The five main theme areas that were installed the World's Fair. Located at the southernmost end of the fairgrounds and west of the Space Needle, the World of Science was located next to the arches, an easily-identifiable landmark. The fountains located at the entrance of the center appeared in the movie It Happened at the World's Fair with Elvis Presley . After the World's Fair closed, the US Science Pavilion

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2688-487: The following spring, long after the fair had ended. At the northeast corner of the grounds (now the KCTS-TV studios ), Show Street was the " adult entertainment " portion of the fair. Attractions included Gracie Hansen's Paradise International (a Vegas -style floor show (rivalled next door by LeRoy Prinz 's "Backstage USA")), Sid and Marty Krofft 's adults-only puppet show, Les Poupées de Paris , and (briefly, until it

2752-756: The ground. The Skyride was moved to the Puyallup Fairgrounds in 1980. The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites , as well as the Project Mercury capsule that had carried Alan Shepard into space. These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair. The United States Science Exhibit began with Charles Eames ' 10-minute short film The House of Science , followed by an exhibit on

2816-500: The grounds), an area it shared with the World of Science. It included the Space Needle and what is now the Broad Street Green and Mural Amphitheater. The Hall of Industry and some smaller buildings were immediately north of American Way. The latter included 15 governmental exhibitors and surrounded the World of Tomorrow and extended to the north edge of the fair. Among the features of Domestic Commerce and Industry,

2880-698: The likes of painters Fritz Hundertwasser , Joan Miró , Antoni Tàpies , and Francis Bacon , and sculptors Henry Moore and Jean Arp . In addition, there were exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings and of Asian art, drawn from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum; and an additional exhibition of 72 "masterpieces" ranging from Titian , El Greco , Caravaggio , Rembrandt , and Rubens through Toulouse-Lautrec , Monet , and Turner to Klee , Braque , and Picasso , with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented. A separate gallery presented Northwest Coast Indian art , and featured

2944-519: The loge adds 51 seats, in 2 rows of 27 and 24 seats, respectively. The balcony provides an additional 88 seats, in 3 rows, with 29–30 seats per row; additionally, there are 4 box seats at balcony level. The PONCHO Forum has a capacity of 133 seats and is set up for general admission, with stadium seating . 47°37′26.6″N 122°21′13.11″W  /  47.624056°N 122.3536417°W  / 47.624056; -122.3536417 Century 21 Exposition The Century 21 Exposition (also known as

3008-481: The massive Interiors, Fashion, and Commerce Building spread for 500 feet (150 m)—nearly the entire Broad Street side of the grounds—with exhibits ranging from 32 separate furniture companies to the Encyclopædia Britannica . Vogue produced four fashion shows daily alongside a perfumed pool. The Ford Motor Company , in its pavilion, presented a simulated space flight and its vision for

3072-538: The mid-1970s, the lower-level math area was dominated by the Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond exhibit, where demonstrators in orange jackets (known as "OJ"s) made soap bubbles and showed audiences how the stylish new Chevrolet Chevette was paving the way for the quick adoption of the Metric system . Upstairs, a giant apparatus known as the " probability machine " would ring an alarm before emptying out

3136-713: The mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse . When the Intiman Theatre became financially unstable, Cornish College of the Arts took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center. Scheduled groups performing at the Opera House included: Source: Events and performances at the Playhouse included Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre ;

3200-598: The point of being known as the "Warren Avenue slum". The old Fire Station No. 4 was also sacrificed. As early as the 1909 Bogue plan , this part of Lower Queen Anne had been considered for a civic center. The Civic Auditorium (later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall ), the ice arena (later Mercer Arena ), and the Civic Field (rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium ), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as

3264-409: The problem of world population ", and "Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world". The Washington State Coliseum, financed by the state of Washington, was one of Thiry's own architectural contributions to the fairgrounds. His original conception had been staging the entire fair under a single giant air-conditioned tent-like structure, "a city of its own", but there were neither

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3328-414: The same era. Cox would later go on to become a professor of physics. These staff were part of the "OJ" program (short for "Orange Jacket", the uniform of the time for Science Center tour guides and visitor assistants). The program consisted of 24 work study students, whose leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Carl Linde, set a format for the program that would last into the late 1990s. The Eames theater

3392-691: The southern entrance to the fair. This replica stood outside the Washington State Capital Museum until 1990, when it was taken down. The grounds of the fair were divided into: Source: Besides the monorail , which survives as of 2023 , the fair also featured a Skyride that ran 1,400 feet (430 m) across the grounds from the Gayway to the International Mall. The bucket-like three-person cars were suspended from cables that rose as high as 60 feet (18 m) off

3456-723: The state of Washington. Pacific Science Center sits on 7.1 acres (29,000 m ) of land at the southwest corner of Seattle Center . A satellite campus, the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center, is a collaboration between Pacific Science Center and the City of Bellevue, Washington with educational programming for all ages about environmental stewardship, wetland ecology and nature awareness. Pacific Science Center also offers year-round youth, teen, family and adult programs, including summer camps in various Puget Sound locations, science-themed 21+ events and research weekends. Pacific Science Center's outreach program, Science On Wheels, has

3520-538: The time of cold war era. Other pavilions included one featuring Brazilian tea and coffee; a European Communities Pavilion from the then six countries of the European Economic Community ; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence. Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th-century man-of-war from Stockholm harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery. Near

3584-432: The time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater. Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicrafts, and Japan and India attempted to show both of these sides of their national cultures. The Taiwan and South Korea pavilions showed their rapid industrialization to the world and the benefits of capitalism over communism during

3648-577: Was "Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment.". Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered. Among the sites considered within Seattle were Duwamish Head in West Seattle ; Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park ) in the Magnolia neighborhood; and First Hill —even closer to Downtown than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed. Two sites south of the city proper were considered— Midway , near Des Moines , and

3712-670: Was an armory (the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House). The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds. They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there; they did a bit better with the Freemasons ' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for

3776-533: Was designed by Minoru Yamasaki ; the design brought him international fame, and was featured on the front cover of Time magazine. He later became architect of the World Trade Center in New York City . The walls of each building, composed of many pre-cast concrete slabs, form an arch motif which was used by Yamasaki in a number of his other designs. In 2013 Pacific Science Center put out

3840-495: Was occupied by the state's own circular exhibit "Century 21—The Threshold and the Threat", also known as the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit, billed as a "21-minute tour of the future". The building also housed exhibits by France, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), General Motors (GM), the American Library Association (ALA), and RCA , as well as a Washington state tourist center. In "The Threshold and

3904-591: Was originally created for a special multi-screen IBM movie for the World Fair. It was later converted into an IMAX screen in 1979, the first of two IMAX theaters at the center. Pacific Science Center grew dramatically in the 1980s. A key step in its evolution was the hiring of George Moynihan as executive director in 1980. Moynihan, from the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California , would run

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3968-499: Was re-opened as Pacific Science Center . The land and buildings were leased for $ 1.00 a year until 2004, when the title deed was signed over and the Pacific Science Center Foundation officially took ownership. During the 1960s, many of the center's exhibits were carried over from the original World's Fair exhibition; only a few of these original exhibits remain today. Currently, exhibits remaining from

4032-589: Was shut down) a show featuring naked "Girls of the Galaxy". Tamer entertainment came in forms such as the Paris Spectacular wax museum , an elaborate Japanese Village, and the Hawaiian Pavilion. 47°37′17″N 122°21′03″W  /  47.62139°N 122.35083°W  / 47.62139; -122.35083 Pacific Science Center Pacific Science Center

4096-579: Was the founding artistic director It received the 1990 Regional Theatre Tony Award . The Bagley Wright Theater , named in honor of the president of Seattle Rep's first board of trustees, opened on October 13, 1983 with the world premiere of Michael Weller 's The Ballad of Soapy Smith , directed by Robert Egan, and featuring a cast of Seattle actors including Dennis Arndt (in the title role), John Aylward , Frank Corrado, Paul Hostetler, Richard Riehle , Michael Santo, Marjorie Nelson , Ted D'Arms, Kurt Beattie, Clayton Corzatte, and William Ontiveros. Also in

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