After his large success with Rawhide and his contract with the series ending, Jim took a job in a theatre for the summer of 1965, playing the starring role in “A Thousand Clowns”.
Advertisement of the production in Traverse City Record-Eagle
30 July 1965
Side by side of the two pictures of him, differently dated but still the same image.
newspaper (full article below) dated Jul 26 1965
higher quality dated Aug 8 1965
“Murdock, himself an individual who fits no conventional pattern, swears his acting career began in a barroom. But he will quickly clarify that it was the popular musical “Ten Nights in a Barroom” at the Melrose Park Theatre in Chicago.”
This article includes a lot of his other stage roles
July 26 1965
Advertisement for auditions to play the nephew.
June 19 1965
Jul 26 1965
“James Murdock, playing the lead role, gave a hard-working, convincing performance. Some of his scenes were excellent, and even though he started a little slowly, he picked up speed and brought off the whole bit in admirable fashion.”
Jul 28 1965
Jim’s mother travels to see him star in the production!
Aug 5 1965
From reviews of this production, I wonder how incredible it would have been to be able to see him perform live!
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