Lyman High School - Eagles Flight Yearbook (Lyman, WY)

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Lower the boom. Several hours is required to set up lights. Sophomore .Toe Brodine and Technical Director Cary Cox place gels and focus lights for The King and l. All set. Props organized, crew in place, Assistant Stage Manager Chuck Sayles gives a last minute perusal to his notes. 1 2 3 , 5 Q.: V it . f W li ,gi A ' MQ X ' A . HL F3 Q. 32. - , F t E A 'buf' ef 1 r leiiti N0 undcrganncnts. Teaching Westem manners to Eastem culture is hard to do. Susan Apgood QAnna J rehearses the scene where she discovers the wives are naked under their dresses. HI student Life Musical Again. Over and over, the wives fSenior Petra Strijker and Freshmen Michele Nelson and Vonda Chamberlain j perfect Westem Women, a song of lament about covering the body and having to wear shoes. gf nv if 'f' .,.-rf

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When Cary drives. Tradition is when the coach drives, the freshmen have to put gas in the speech bus, especially on their first trip with the team, Sometimes, though, a junior offers his services if the freshman is a girl and is dressed up. Junior Jamie Schmidt prepares to be diesel man. A few Z's. As bus trips roar on, students heads droop and silence overcomes the bus. Visions of Disney Land dance through Senior Carl Menck's head as his class travels through Utah and Nevada towards Califomia. Talk to me. The four to five hours bus trips throughout Wyoming are boring. Therefore, pleasant conversation is desired. Freshmen Vonda Chamberlain and Melanie Cottrell engage Senior Jay Buckley in a discussion. N0 tv. Unfortunately, school travel buses are not equipped with tv sets for entertain- ment during travel time. The seniors on the way to Califomia are a little spoiled by the chartered lines as they can watch videos. student Life - Bus Trips

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Updated' facilities . help make it professional 'flt was a rule that if anyone touched them Cpropsj, we'd kill themf' orking in the new Per- forming Arts Center madeThe. King and I different from previous plays. New lighting systems, sound systems, stage techniques and sets made the production more professional. The musical was a culminating activity of three de- partments: instrumental music, vocal music, theatre arts and crafts. Over eighty students were involved. Freshman Tamara Huggins said, I was in control of the sound system. In order for the actors and actresses to be heard over the orchestra they had to wear hidden microphones. I had to make sure they fthe micro- phonesj didn't squeak. To learn how to run the sound system I had to read a manual, but out of the technical jobs, mine was the easiest. 'fMy job was running the ily system, Freshman Chuck Sayles said, which consisted of the ropes that lifted and brought down the scenery. Monique Lewis gave me cues to move the scenery. I learned to run the fly system in Theatre Crafts class. Mr. Cox chose me because I had the most time, I wanted to do it and I was pretty capable of handling it. Sophomore Sara Souther managed the costumes. I had to separate all the costumes and hand them out to the cast mem- bers. During performances I helped people change into their costumes. When things became tom or if things fell off, I had to fix themf, she said. Some things that hap- pened were, she added, one little boy's penan g, CSiamese pantsj would show his underware when he bent over, so I had to make sure props. If they came up missing it was usually because someone had forgot- ten to put them back. I enjoyed working back- stage. I'd been in a lot of plays before and this time it was interesting to see it from a different angle. The orchestra grew in quantity and quality. Orches- tra Director Charles Brum- baugh noted, This was probably the most music we've ever played. Not very much had been cut. It was also more playable. The woodwind section did really he was pinned up well. During a dress rehearsal Victor VanGieson was holding Bridget Cox on the stage floor and his penang came undone and fell off. Fortunately he had walking shorts on undemeath. Prop Manager Tammy Hicks said, Props were kept on a table backstage and it was a rule that if any- one touched them we'd kill them. We didn't have too much trouble with losing Unsung heroes. The pit orchestra receives very little acclaim, but without them the musical would lack its luster and professional quality. The orchestra joins the cast in the last three weeks of rehearsal coordinating the casts' singing with thc instmrnents. well. We also added two string players from the com- munity. They helped make the music sound fuller. f'The new Performing Arts Center made it quite a bit easier to balance the orches- tra with the singers. The orchestra added a lot to the production. We played pretty high quality. It was better than we had ever done, added Brumbaugh. Jessica Dunn siudemtite Musical Z Q