Angelo State University - Rambouillet Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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34 Inherit the Wind Over S50 people turned out to see the six-day run of the ASU Arts' production Inherit the Wind on April 19-25 in the ASU Modular Theatre, Directed by Dr. Bill Watts, Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence's Inherit the Wind had a 32-member cast and was staged in the round, with the audience facing the stage from three sides. The three-act drama retold the true-love account of a famous trial that took place in Dayton, Tennessee in 1926 when a teacher named John Scopes was put on trial for the teachings of evolution in a public school. Famous lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow were the two at- torneys in that trial, with Jennings in favor of the plaintiff and Darrow as the defending attorney. Lee and Lawrence's play parallels that trial, which came to be known as The Monkey Trial, with the names and some of the situations changed. Senior drama majors Kevin King and Ken Fletcher portrayed the two lawyers with King cast as the defending lawyer Henry Drummond and Fletcher playing the plain- tiff's lawyer Matthew Harrison Brady. Other members of the cast included Allen Hearn, Jenny Watts, Paula Rabb, Malcom Upton, Jerel Murrah, Kristi Lena Hart, James Shearer, Cleveland Lee Smith, Jay Jones, Jeff Barringer, Kenny Jones, Kevin Freriks, Misty Brueggemann, Shirlee Nap- per, Rob Scott, Mitchelle James, Scott Yar- brough, Dawn Ingham, Ruth Forrest, Julie Watts, Paul Lambardo, Mike Etley, Gerry Lima, Tim Cantrell, Melanie Fletcher, David Lloyd, James Worley, David Branham and Lynn Fancher. The production staff of Inherit the Wind were stage manager Betcie Byrd, costumer Juanita Norris, properties manager Janet McReavy, master electrician James Worley, master carpenter James Shearer, sound technician Libba Carver, hair stylist Steve Pope, wardrobe manager Daria Rodriquez, box office manager Dwight Dickey and house manager Adolph Flores Jr.-FLORES if ,xl we inherit the wind Jenny Watts halts her game of hopscotch with the ap- pearance of Kevin King ldefending lawyer Henry Drum- mondl in a closing scene of act 1 of Inherit the Wind. lNews Services Photol Kevin King and Kenneth Fletcher examine a potential juror as the townspeople and the rest of the jury look on. lNews Services Photol

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R i ' , 1, ', , l ' . J' , Q.-'?:Q,., 3:42, - -- . -eu., mf- .-1 ' ,W r A-g,-f ,. f .:s:,-5---t.'.?f.r-. ' Y J, 5 'l Dpera Anyone? Four operas by playwrightfcomposer Gian Carlo Menotti were played before capacity audiences during Opera Anyone?-The Sequel's six day run on Jan. 28-30 and Feb. 4-6. Staged in the ASU Modular Theatre, The Sequel was sponsored by the Art and Music Department and designed and directed by voice instructor Paula Homer, The Sequel opened its four-opera presentation with Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, a fifteen minute opera about a 12-year-old boy named Amahl fplayed by Jason Lowel and his mother fplayed by Ruth Forrestl, who received a visit one night from three kings on a long journey following a star to the east. Menotti's The Consul, followed Amahl with ASU graduate Debbie Ehrhardt returning to ASU to play the role of Magda Sorel in the one-woman politically-oriented opera. Amelia Goes to the Ball, a comedy- opera by Menotti, finished off the first part of the opera production with the saga of Amelia, who wants to go to the ball so bad she decides to tell her husband about her lover and their affair, Charlotte Rutledge, Jeff Woods and Mack Fox made up the triangle in the 1910 twenty-minute opera. The second half of the opera production offered Menotti's The Medium, a fifty- minute dramafmusical opera about a medium who after defrauding her clients by pretending to contact spirits receives her own spiritual contact during one of the seances. With Julia Stovall, Allison Gill and Richard Calvert portraying the lead roles, The Medium used several special sound and lighting effects, including a moving table, an apparition fmade possible through special lightingl and several sound effects. Serving with Homer as musical director was Dr. Eldon Black, who also served as the technical director of the production, Other technical personnel included special-effects consultant Dr. Bill Watts, sound technician Kevin King, Lighting technician Tracy Welch, stage manager Gena McWilliams, costumer Debbie Ehrhardt, accompanist Phil Kirchman, box office manager Dwight Dickey and house manager Libba Carver. Among the 28-member cast and crew were Kippy Edge, Robert Ehrhardt, Jean- marie Micale Hale, Al Marks, Bobby Trejo, John Triplett, Patti Wetzel, Kathrun Brown, Debbie Daniel, Darla Kruse, Vicki Maddox, Darren Skinner and Cheryl Walker.-FLORES

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Paula Rabb testifies for the defendent lalso her boyfrnendl as reporter Scott Yarbrough and prosecuting attorney Kenneth Fletcher and the townspeople lnsten lNews Services Photol Mrs Brady Wlelanxe Fletcherl comforts her husband lKenneth Fletcherl ln a closxng scene of act ll of lnher1t the W1nd The two are also marrxed ln true-lute lBoykm Photol Inherit the wind 3