Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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Our Town Updated The modern adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town performed on October 6, 7, and 8, provided unique experiences for the cast and audiences. Jim Butch, director, updated the script and the staging of this classic play to show the univers- ality of the play's themes about life. The setting, Grover's Corners, New Hamp- shire, was represented by ramps and platforms in the top Emily gazes at the moon as George struggles with homework. center Editor Webb gives George advice about married life. right Mrs. Gibbs serves breakfast to sleepy George and Rebecca. 26 shape of a cross The cast dressed in leans and denim blue workshirts to symbol :ze man s conformity Most of the performers had not acted in arena staging, in which the audience surrounds them on three sides The audience some times became uneasy sitting so close to the cast mem bers as they enacted the life love, and death cycles, before two ancient symbols of infinity ff

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CAST lin order of appearancel Stage Manager Mrs. Gibbs Mrs. Webb Doc Gibbs Joe Crowell Howie Newsome George Gibbs Rebecca Gibbs Emily Webb Wally Webb Professor Willard Mr. Webb Woman in Audience Man in Audience Lady in Audience Simon Stimson Mrs. Soames Patrolman Warren Si Crowell Joe Stoddard Sam Craig Chuck Grund Druann Fitz Lisa Berman Randy Price Roger Roe David Saunders Chris Schueler Maureen Scanlon Stephanie Harrison Dean Lockhart Bob Ingram David McGehean Celeste Didlick Tom Sauer Sue Barker Dick Monroe Maria Bell Allen Beach John Crawford Neil Reck Steve lsraelsky Chorus Ensemble Dorothy Tague David Franklin Jeanie Henry Mary Jo Pardy Celeste Didlick Carol Farrar Kim Williams David Tuttle Tom Sauer Leslie Boni Mary Fisher Wendy Lawson Angela Bond Cheryl Chamberlain Kim Tinch top left The Stagemanager is the minister as Emily and George exchange vows. top right Simon Stimson directs the choir singing Blessed Be the Tie That Binds. right Adelaide laments her fate. from his practice. 27