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Scene 3: Porch of Social Hall. Scene 4: Social Hall. Scene 5: Path Through the Woods. Scene 6: Athletic Field. Scene 7: Path Through the Woods Scene 8: Eagle Rock. Scene 9: The Boat House. Scene 10: The Lake Front. ACT II Scene 1: The Campfire. Scene 2: Path Through the Woods. Scene 3: Pinky's Cabin. Scene 4: Porch of Social Hall. Scene 5: Basketball Court. PERIOD AND COSTUMES: Present (see Notes): casual travelling clothes, waiter uniforms, assorted bathing suits, leopard-skin swimming trunks, bikinis, etc., summer evening dresses and dinner jackets, blue jeans, slacks, Oriental dressing gown, play suits, sweat suits, pajamas, sweaters, Queen Candlelight gown, red Dan Cupid diaper, wings, and quiver of arrows, bathing beauty suits and sashes, sombrero, blanket, bathrobes, raincoats, Paris "original" evening gown. CHOREOGRAPHY: Pantomime, male dance team to back up Fay, modern, "whistle dance," waltz, Charleston, lindy, rumba, fast boogie, slow boogie, acrobatics, swimming and diving exhibition, stop-action freezes, rhythm number (bebop), basketball game dance. LIGHTING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS: Rear projection silhouettes, burning social hall in distance, campfire, P.A. system on stage, continuous rainstorm (hose sprinkling against windows). Some indoor, but mostly day and night dramatic lighting required throughout. Twinkling stars and moonlight. NOTES: Wish You Were Here would be a major undertaking if done as the original. The authors, realising this problem, have written an alternate ending to the first act eliminating the need for an onstage swimming pool. They have also provided ideas for simplifying other sets. The topical book is somewhat dated and should probably be done as a period piece to show the "Now" generation what it was like when young singles enjoyed camp activities and a less sophisticated way of getting to know one another. The title page of the London programme says "Any resemblance to a Butlin Holiday Camp is accidental!"

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