Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Deadeye was the man we all loved to hate, and Melissa Kensett, Toby Follows, Mark Duncan and Chris Ricketts turned in great per- formances, everyone. And then there ' s Mr. Josselyn. As the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Ad- miralty), Mr. Josselyn gave the au- dience some of the best fun of the evening. Lest you think that the leads did all the work, there most certainly was a good chorus to back them up. The sailors and Sir Joseph ' s sisters, cousins and aunts tried hard to bring the roof down. The guys and girls who worked backstage deserve congratulations as well, whether they were in make-up, props, or just backstage doing odd jobs. With Paul Bundschuh (enjoying the near divi- nity of being Stage Manager) run- ning everything, things never got confused. With this year ' s musical brought to a successful close, we can look back on it with satisfaction and pleasure. Let ' s hope that most of this year ' s talent will be able to re- combine for next year ' s effort. On Thursday, 24th of May, Appleby debuted three drama- tists, two grade thirteens, Graham Leggat and Richard Woolley, and Mr. R. Snowden. The plays, the result of a Thursday activity, were written, rehearsed and produced in under six weeks, each of the dra-

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On April 18, 19, and 20, 1979, Gilbert and Sullivan again enter- tained audiences at Appleby in the form of the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. To the audiences, it was an evening of entertaining musical fun, filled with farce and catchy melodies. To the people who staged it, though, it was the satisfying culmination of several weeks of hard work. Teamed with St. Mildred ' s, the leads, chorus, and directors laboured lovingly to put on an excellent production. It ' s true, of course, that the per- formance had as much fun putting on the show as the audience did watching it. Backstage on the nights the production was shown was a hectic bustle of actors and stagehands. The curtains rise was anticipated eagerly by everyone in- volved, and it ' s fall was invariably celebrated. Thanks and congratulations are due to all the performers, who turned in an excellent show, to the teachers, and to the ladies who aided in the effort, Mrs. Royce, Mrs. Jensen and a whole host of people (if all the names aren ' t down here, somebody should have a program you can look at). Thank you as well to the or- chestra. We can ' t forget the cast, of course. With Chris Baker as Ralph, Eileen Ferguson as Josephine, Suzanne Duncan as Buttercup, and Glenn Wright as the Captain, there was plenty of talent. Andrew Pollock ' s Dick

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Pride and Prejudice i I can say without prejudice that it was with some pride that Appleby and St. Mildred ' s put on the production of the play, Pride and Prejudice , based on Jane Austen ' s book of the same name. The play was presented on Friday and Saturday, February, 16 and 17, but the beginnings stem back to late October, when auditions were first held for Pride and Prejudice. The boys who volunteered to try out found out just what sort of acting they would have to do to make it authentic, since the entire play was a period piece from the early nineteenth century. Anybody who joined up just for some backstage boogie with the St. Millie ' s girls soon found out he ' d actually have to do some acting. Right through November, December, and January, right up to the last minute, everybody worked hard. Sometimes the practices were a lot of work, and it seemed we were getting nowhere, but everyone kept going, and the effort was worth it. The final two nights were the best, both performance wise and moral- wise, and made everything we ' d done before well worth it and fun. The whole thing may have been a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. Thanks and a tip of the hat are due to everyone involved, Mrs. Jensen, our director, the leads, the girls backstage and all the actors who took part in the production. Although a lot of people deserve special mention, if it was put down here this article would be three times as long. If you missed the play, you missed a lot. If you saw it, you should know what I ' m talking about. Mark Baker k