Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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it Play Production First row V- LL-Rl Andrea Lippe, Robin Gluck, Leora Binstock, Sharon Lerner, Meryl Rosen, Mr. Moss, Barbara Froman, joy Shep- pard, Rhona Rosenberg. Nicole Haddad, Bonnie Fishkind. Sr-cond row A Robin Iacobson, jane Walderman, Virginia Vitzthum, Paula Bernstein, Robin Pearlstein, Lisa Berkowitz, Cheryl Barrish, Leslie Regov, Dian Jaffe, Peter Aigner. Third row - Eric Coleman, jess Kalish, Lisa Feldman, Nancy Weinstock, Nili Torun, Laura Merrill, Elissa Aronoff, Barbara Oken. Fourth row - Walter Mantani, Gary Pagan, Gail Shulman, Robert Naparstek, Mark Lilien. Stage Crew vu,-H' First' row - Mike Pressman. Second row - fl.-RH Jeff Merril, Mr. David Moss, Mike Horowitz. Third row - Neil Preston, joe Fa- miglietti lStage Managerl, Stanley Stroe. Sing Executive Committee First row - QL-Rl, Ruth Kandel, jackie Goldfarb, Ioan Berman tExecutive Sec'yl, Gail Shulman, CCommissionerJ, Robby Halpern, Iori Mandelman, Robert Silver, Sr-cond row - jess Kalish, Roz Insdorf, Monica Tietz, Carol Bennett, Debby Katz, Toby Cwern, Ellie Kranz, Third row - Nicole Haddad, Susan Reitler, Charlie jones, Nancy Weinstock, Amy Budnick.

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w..,,,wM 2 QAQ i, WA Q... 2 2 1 ENTER LAUGHINC Most of us have ambitions to be something other than what we are. However, few of us ever take any steps towards achieving those ambitions. David Kolowitz is an exception, and his futile attempts at becoming an actor form the basis for the play ENTER LAU CHING. David is a delivery boy for a sewing machine factory, a job he doesn't like. His par- ents want him to be a druggist - but his idea doesn't appeal to him either. David wants to be a somebody, so he joins a semi-professional acting company, which for a price, will put anybody in any show. Davidis futile attempts at acting make for situations that are hilariously funny. In additions a live quadrangle between David, a secretary, the ham man- ager's daughter and Davidis school sweetheart creates scenes which are tenderly amusing and abundantly human. IMPROMPTU Of all the skits, sketches and playlets that Play Pro has presented to us in our assembly programs, Impromptu by Tad Mozel was probably the most interesting. An experimental play, it dealt with the nature of acting, and tried to determine the relationship between an actor's own personality and the part he plays. The cast consisted of Ernest, a popular, well- known actor, Winifred, an embittered actress who never really made it, Tony, a young actor concerned with the meaning of the situation, and Lora, an ingenue who wants to do what is expected of her. As the play begins, we learn that these four actors have been hired and sent directly on to the stage to improvise a play. However, they don't have much luck. Though they try to separate themselves from the scene and act within the setting they have decided upon, their own personalities are constantly interrupting them, and they find that without a script, they cannot be anything but themselves. They have discovered by the end of the scene that it is much easier to act a part in a written, organized play than it is to try to direct one's own impulses. Life, says Tad Mozel, is a play without a script. 27 ,,,gx...-.-- lil l

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I we' S 1 I i 35 sf... ? 'l Off E 123 Sophomore Sing The course of true love never did run smooth. Martha O'Brian is devotedly in love with john, the butlerfi, However, their love is frustrated by lack of money. john, being a worthy and responsible butler, refuses to marry her, for fear that he will not be able to support a wife and children. Luck seems to strike when vMartha invests in a Wildcat stock and becomes a millionairess overnight. But things never seem to wor out for poor Martha. When she approaches john with her newly acquired fortune she finds that John i s not one to live off the earnings of a lady. When I get married he says I want to work with my wife toy build a life for the two of us. Q ,Downhearted though she is, life goes on for Martha. Attending a party in her honor slre hears a talk of lan impending stock market crash and the next day it becomes a reality. But the loss of her fortune turns? out to be a blessing in disguise. Now when she returns to john he welcomes her with open arms. Vowff ing never to part again they live happily ever after. Qf 3 5 9 3 7 7 3 tlSome of the tunes used in Sophomore Sing were: Inside Daisy Cloverf, Ulf Ever I Would Leave Youn Sand the most sensational number of the show, Rita Tabb,s solo - He touched Me. H ,E . I D 3 N 3 3 Junior Sing up andemonium breaks loose as Bo Weevil and his daughter Patty discover gold on their land! The whole 3 eevil family - including Bo and Peep and their daughters Maxine Patty and Laverne - is ecstatic. But they soon discover that the possession of gold is not an unadulterated blessing. The town speculator, informs them that their taxes will run into the millions! Unless these taxes are paid, the land will go to, the person who can pay them, namely himself. s or. One major obstacle to their marriage is the family tradition that the oldest daughter Cugly Maxine ,V must marry first Laverne eliminates this problem by setting up a match between Maxine and a neigh' bor but the fact remains that the speculator s job conflicts with the interests of the family. Strange as it may seen under these conditions, lovely Laverne has fallen in love with the town specula 5 All seems lost for Laverne until a nosy neighbor takes it into her head that perhaps the gold isn t gold at Rall. Bo is furious at the suggestion but to his surpise daughter Patty confesses to a strange deed was feeling overlooked and neglected and planted gold-painted rocks on the family s land in order to get? 'ff hrows down his shovel in despair only to strrkeorllll 9 5' o 9 Z 3 Y ' 3, ittle problems are solved, but to Farmer Weevil it seems like killing the patient to cure the disease. He .. Q. W y. . ,,,,,,... .,.g..Vg y .., y ,- .... ,V g 4,,, .y ..... . . ,, . r ., W ., .y I A '. ? i I 5, Q , ia. at L35 5 9 ,. it f ,ai Q? J 'fig 9, rf ' .ff , me sg- Cl! W , . N fr If The hit number of junior Sing was Anrse Tepper s solo to the tune of Some People O hx S ON I f , ' - 2 .av I 'Q f attention'