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3y THERESA REYNOLDS Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Theatregoers in Washington this weekend will have the opportunity to see Waldren O’Connor as the self-congratulatory Captain Corcoran - the man who “never ever swears” - in the library benefit performance of H. "St'. S. Pinafore. But those who have worked with him from the beginning of this ambitious undertaking know that the captain is only one of the many roles that O’Connor has played in this effort that he says has been distinguished by “moments of thrilling success and dark despair.”
O’Connor is the producer of the musical comedy which means that he has been responsible for every mindboggling detail involved in a production of this sort since he and his wife, Cornelia first selected H. M. S. Pinafore as a vehicle suitable for an amateur performance in Rappahannock County.
I visited Mr. O’Connor last week in an effort to pry from him some of the details of a very interesting life that began in pre-depression era New York and found him last Friday in the scaffolding eight feet, above the stage in the Gay Street Theatre in Washington, Virginia.
O’Connor has been interested in every part of the theatre since his student days at Trinity College in Connecticut. “I don’t know if it
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