Andrew Jackson High School - Jacksonian Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Costumes Enrich Players ' Once Upon a Mattress Lavish costumes and rich vocal arrangement graced the production of Once Upon a Mat- tress, a musical presented Nov. 11-12-13. The Jackson players, under the direction of Mr. John H. B. Kauss, presented the play based on a book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer. The Queen is secretly reluctant to see her fumbling offspring Dauntless conducted to the altar. With the help of the Wizard she dreams up tests designed to eliminate the marriage hopefuls. In a sensitivity test the possessive queen places a pea beneath 20 mattresses, con- vinced it can ' t disturb the repose of the rugged Winnifred. Fortunately, Winnifred remains sleepless and wins Dauntless. Costume mistress Barb Freeman made most of the elaborate outfits from almost 300 yards of material. BACK IN 1492 is the theme for Court Jester Chris Moore ' s soft shoe routine. AN INTEGRAL PART of the musical was the pit orchestra, directed by Mr. Daniel Miller. The regu- lar orchestra director, Mr. Harold Kottlowski, played the lead violin. 28

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BOTH royal parents try to prepare Prince Dauntless (Mike Fodroci) for marriage. Above, Queen Aggra- vain (Laura Simeri) expresses the anguish of choos- ing a proper mate and King Sextimus (Mark Slagle) pantomimes the facts of life. PRINCESS WINNIFRED (Jane Merriman) confides how to get a man to Lady Larken (Sue Merriman). 29