Palatine High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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Marx Brothers supplg continuitg for V-show , ,eggs I js is ss ,Li The Marx brothers spent V-show trying to persuade Producer Peterson's secretary to let them in to see him, She flatly refused. Many of V-show's acts were musical numbers. ABOVE: Buglettes lanice Lindegard, Peggy Rivera and Diana Miles singing the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B and RIGHT: Mark Coughnour soloing The Lincoln Park Pirates. Mark and Peggy were madrigals and lanice and Diana were members of bel canto.

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Orchesis raises S300 with Dancing Machine Karen Westermann, Lynne Sevey, Jayne Rogers and Desi Long dancing to Dancing Machine, dance show's opening and title number. The dance style is robot rock. Last spring, work shops, clinics and tryouts were held to select the best 16 dancers in the school. These girls quickly organized under the sponsorship of Miss Enburg and became the 1975 orchesis. Betsy Santow was elected presi- dentg Debbie Stowe, vice presidentg and Ellen Wilson, publicity chairman. The girls started working in the summer on the dance show, their major fund raiser. The show's title and first number were Dancing Machine, one of the jackson Five's biggest hits. Several styles of dance were presented from Betsy's robot dance to Lynne Sevey's ballet. Getting the most applause was a performance by Karen Westermann costumes added much to the dance. Desi Long danced a bie and Lynne with jill Gorge and Cathy Christie wafted their boas and did a languid number of 1, 2, 3 kick under the direction of Bob Herbst, a 1974 graduate home from the U. of l. He also did a special number. Two perform- ances were given Nov. 9, and the girls raised over 5300. Orchesis also performed in V-show and at two pep assem- blies. The girls took several of their show numbers to the Orchesis pfffformedloamedlev Ofsonssfrom Marv Poppins althe Emmanuel Lutheran school for a program. In March, the girls joined boys from choir and chorale to do some 50s type numbers for the pop concert. Several girls were also chosen to be Hot Box Girls in Guys and Dolls. A spring workshop by a professional is part of their program and takes a good piece of their money. The rest of their money was used to buy black jazz pants. The girls make most of their costumes and do their own choreogra- phy- hot number to Hollywood Swinger, and Desi, Karen, Deb- 1 'Q f' homecoming royal rally. Debbie Stowe and Karen Hetzel portrayed baby dolls, Other members were fairies, chimney sweeps and lumberjacks. X and Debbie Stowe billed as the Martians. Their delicate ,

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K'-1 One of the year's most successful movies was an MGM production, That's Entertainment. Palatine took the title and the theme for its V-show and presented it in Cutting hall Feb. 6, 7 and 8. Though the Marx Brothers were not featured in the MCM film, they were the continuity for V-show. Groucho tFrank McCeel, Chico lDon Andersonl and Harpo tKen Strombergl searched for a producer to back the show of their dreams. As they waited outside Producer Peterson's office hoping to be able to do business with him, they pre- sented their acts to his secretary tluann Gerthl. One of the acts was Monster Mash. Cihouls ran down the aisles screaming as Dracula and Frankenstein danced in the background to Frank's singing. Soloists were Luann singing Sister Suffragette, Mark Cioughnour playing his gui- tar accompaniment while singing Lincoln Park Pirates and loanne Barczyk playing Fantasie Impromptu as a piano solo. Other soloists were Desi Long dancing to The Sounds of Philadelphia, Dave Militello playing Night Train on the electric organ, Carolyn Carlson singing I Honestly Love You nn 'Yun and Rich Brady at the piano playing Morning Has Broken. The continuity script was written by Frank, layne Loven sheimer and Brad Samojla. Brad and Chris Thomas were production coordinators. The actors were inspired by full houses both nights. V-show's biggest production number, involving 17 students dressed as various ghouls, was Monster Mash. TOP: Shelia Fyfe as Count Dracula lamenting the disappearance of the Transylvania twist. Frank McGee was Dr. Frankenstein and sang most of the song, LEFT: Betsy Santow, Frankenstein's monster, having green makeup applied by Miss Williams, technical director. Betsy appeared in several acts and had to be remade each time. ABOVE: Cathy Christie, Gregg lannusch and Shelly Coleman of chorale ensemble performing Chim Chim Cheree from Mary Poppins.