East Noble High School - Legend Yearbook (Kendallville, IN)

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Left: Sophmores, Ted O ' Malley and Jeff Mosqueda, and Freshman, Evan Williams, get into top physical condition during the Conditioning skit that the Extravaganza audience enjoyed. Middle: The cast of Extravaganza perform the opening song: I ' m Free (Heaven Helps the Man). Bot- tom: Sean Smith, Evan Williams, and Ted O ' Malley show their Karate Kid pose in Nerd Busters, another big hit of Extravaganza ' 84. 23

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S%fc 4$ ty S tentaamtmt The fifteenth annual Extravaganza was orginally scheduled to open November 16, 1984, but was postponed due to sickness until Wednesday, November 28, 1984. As it turned out, it was more of a blessing then a bother. The show needed much more work! The two weeks helped a lot. Kirk Gay felt, I really did not think it would work out but at the last minute it just came togeather. Nan Barker, a freshman, said it was a good idea to delay the show. She even said that they Should have had a longer delay to learn the dance routines better. The theme this year was Breakthrough. The theater class at East Noble invented this theme to express the desire to breakthrough all barriers and inhabitations to reach for your dreams and the top. To express this theme, the show opened with a cast of approxiamately one hundred people, singing the theme song I ' m Free (Heaven Helps the Man). The show continued with a Visit with Edith Ann and Nerd Busters. Nerd Busters was a skit that combined the movies Ghost Busters, The Karate Kid, and Revenge of the Nerds. The nerds were invading, and it was up to the nerd busters to defend the school. The idea of nerds was further carried out later when they had the Nerd Fashion Show in the second act. There were nerdy combin- ations of fashions displayed, with Laurie Emerson playing the master of ceremonies. The Cabbage Patch Kids sang, Side by Side and East Noble teachers, from the audience participated in Teacher Tales, an invented game show. Invented just for the occasion. Another big hit was a dance routine that die Breakers and the Knightettes did to Wake Me Up. The Breakers also did their own routine and the audience was astounded by their talent. The student enjoyed working on Extrva- ganza for different reasons. Nan Barker, stated, 1 got to meet a lot of new people that I didn ' t know before. I liked working in Extravaganza because it gave me the excuse to wear bandanas around my ankles every night without my dad saying anything about it, Sophmorc Todd Reeves said. There were two acts loaded with fun for the audience as well as the cast and Extra- vaganza ' 84: Breakthrough ended with the entire cast singing Fame. This was to show that the actors had broken through the barriers and achieved what they wanted to achieve. Right: Sean Smith, a member of the East Noble Breakers and a Sophmore at East Noble, demon- strates the newest form of break- ing. Popping. Sean and the other Breakdancers (Jeff and Scott Mosqueda, Ted O ' Malley, Evan Williams, Chris Gustafson and Todd Reeves) were the biggest hit at Extravaganza 84. Text by Dianna Cullen Photos by David Yuska

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r ityadoo t: ?4 7 ty % 7 «e Above: The wedding of Jean McLaren (Laurie Emerson) and Charlie Dairy m pie (Phil Larson) takes place as the village of Brigadoon attends and Mr. Lundie (Steve Probst) performs the ceremony. Right: Harry Beaton (Ted OMalley) does a fur- ious sword dance at Jean and Charlie ' s wedding. The fourteenth annual Dinner Theatre was performed on March 15th and 16th. The play Brigadoon was a magical story of a village that, by a special miracle, only appears one day every one hundred years. Two lost hunters from New York stumble upon this village on the day it happens to appear and are soon swept into a story of romance, love and murder. One hunter, Tommy Albright (Greg Tat- man), falls in love with the charming and beautiful Fiona McLaren (Amy Roche). The other hunter, Jeff Douglas (Jeff Mosqueda), catches the eye of a very flirtatious, young woman, Meg Brockie (Cyn-dee Wilson). Tommy soon finds out about the mir- acle and must decide if he will leave Briga- doon and give up his true love, or stay in Brigadoon, disappear, and give up everything he worked for in New York. Tommy, with doubts, leaves Brigadoon never to see Fiona again, but later realizes he really does love her. His love brings Brigadoon back to pick him up. There is a sub-plot within this plot. On this particular day, there is a wedding about to take place. Jean McLearn (Laurie Emer- son), Fiona ' s sister, and Charlie Dalrymple (Phil Larson) are getting married, much to the disgust of Harry Beaton who loves Jean. The wedding celebration is interupted as Harry (Ted O ' Malley) threatens to leave Brigadoon and end the miracle. A chase to catch him occurs and Jeff Mistakenly trips him. He falls down, hits his head on a rock and dies. The magical notes of real bagpipes add- ed a special effect to the mood of the show and made it more authentic, said Nan Bar- ker, a freshman who performed in Briga- doon. With the Bagpipes and the manufact- uring of real fog, Brigadoon came to life for two nights to excite the audiences. After two house-packed nights, Briga- doon disappeared For maybe another 25 years, said Craig Munk, Director. Text by Dianna Cullen Photos by Dave Yuska