Summer Plays Geri Teefy, parish member since 1950, and Joe Kenney
In the early 1960s, Fr. Robert Cassidy and Fr. Robert Packard put on summer musicals with a group of adults and parish children. Bob Farley, a friend of Fr. Cassidy, did the costumes. These were very professionally done, utilizing some great local talent. The plays included Little Abner, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, The King and I, and Once Upon a Mattress. Geri Teefy reports that Sr. Geri Cashman, then a senior in high school, asked her if she could “put a rinse” in her daughter Maureen’s hair for her role as the oldest child in The King and I. To their surprise, the “rinse” turned Maureen’s light brown hair permanently black!In 1968, three years after Fr. Cassidy left Incarnation, Joe Kenney organized an ecumenical consortium of neighborhood churches and started a summer program for children from kindergarten through high school. They had 15-20 paid staff and conducted recreational classes like arts and crafts, daytime outings, and dances, and they also put on plays. Two of the musicals they did were Brigadoon and Oklahoma. They took Oklahoma on the road and performed it at the Hennepin County workhouse. This program lasted until 1971.Summer Plays
