Bay High School - Bay Blue Yearbook (Bay Village, OH)

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An incriminating letter holds the attentions of Denise Bailey and George Bent in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”. The Thespians sold 260 tickets to the show. To amuse her stu- dents. Denise Bailey lectures on her past loves in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” The cast consisted of 28 members. 13 of who acted as school- girls. ✓ Feature: Everybody’s a Stifr thespians, a non-profit organization, produced two plays; fall and spring. Under the direction of Ms. Marilyn Frazier and their officers, the group chose the dramas they wanted to do. = Christie Savoca said, “We try to choose plays with a lot of roles, especially female because we have more girls.” For the first time, fund-raising projects were coordinated. The major one for 1980 was to sell soap. Each member sold at least one but the combi- ned efforts were still not enough to meet their goal of $800 profit. Some extra money was made when members volunteered to paint faces at the Barefoot in the Park festival. At the year’s end, a banquet was held to induct the new Thespians. To try out for “Sweeney Todd . Thes- pians Molly Clark and Dave Daso wait for adviser Ms. Marilyn Frazier to assign a scene. A neophyte became a Thespian after 100 hours of stage work. y At a dress rehearsal for “Sweeney Todd”, villains Dave Daso and Lauren Kostas plot their next mur- derous theft. Re- hearsals in the audi- torium started two weeks before the play. Thespian plays—

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In “Sweeney Todd , the first Thespian play with musical accompaniment. Marjean Taylor looks over her score. It was coordinated with the play by her music teacher. in the act tension and suspense exploded into the auditorium as the bar maid piano player pounded out an ominous chord for last spring’s play, “Sweeney Todd”. Melodrama, a campy mixture of honey-dipped heroines, fiendish villians and righteous heros, formulated the basis for audience par- ticipation in the Thespian’s spring pro- duction. In this up-beat performance, the audience was encouraged to boo the villains, cheer the heroes, and generally participate in the action of the play. Junior Michelle Adkins, who played a saintly charity worker, complimented the style of the play: “It was really fun; you could act act crazy and no one would notice.” The next effort of the Thespians was the production of the fall play, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”. “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” This classic line dramatically repeated by Miss Brodie implies the bizarreness of the subject matter. Sue Steward remarked, “It was kind of a strange play with all of these little abstract affairs going on.” Kyle Craig, who played one of the main schoolgirls felt that the play was a dif- ficult one to do. She stated, “Even with such demanding parts, everyone came through in the end.” About the final performance, Cheryl Soltis, who has been in several Thespian pro- ductions commented, “The end is always sad because you have spent so much time with the cast and after it is over, we usually don’t see each other until the next play.” — Student Life

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One of the 13 all- cast rehearsals in February provides Cheryl Soltis and Dave Daso with a chance to perfect “Once a Year Day”. Rehearsal lasted from 7pm to 9pm or later. Shuffling down the stage. Doug Fosler. Lisa Lowrie and Chris Cooley dance Steam Heat”. A 32-member pit orchestra accom- panied all the play’s musical numbers. L Huhndorfl What big event at the high school had a budget of $2,500, involved students and facul- ty from every department, and required more than three months of preparation? You guessed it—it could only have been the third annual all-school musical. Tryouts began in November, when, in three nights, 84 kids sang, danced, and read their way through the auditioning process. For the 46 who make it, the work had just begun. From January fifth until the first week in February, rehearsals for the sixteen member principal cast were held after school on Mon- days, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Then, through February, the entire cast worked every night to polish scenes and run through the full length of the play. “Since some members held a job, it was especially hard to get everyone together to rehearse,’ commented Dave Cooley. Meanwhile, the behind the scenes folks were hard at work. Members of the pit orchestra were faced with some of the toughest show music ever—148 pages of jazz-style numbers in unusual key signatures. To compound the difficulties, Jeff Hawk explained, “We only had two, three run-throughs with the cast, so we really had to work hard to pull it together for the actual performance.” Opening night, February 19, finally arrived, and the last minute preparations were made. Then the baton came down, the overture be- gan, the curtain rose and the show was defi- nitely underway. Were all the preparations worth the short three-day run? “Definitely”, replied Cheryl Soltis. “Everyone put in a lot of work and I think that the end result showed that. We all had a lot of fun doing it.” —Student Life