Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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A weary Arne Han Carmi- chael. '93 Turns his back To his army wife TAnno Donaldson. 'QTT and his protesting misiress TChrisTin Rue, '93 in House of Blue Leaves. Maureen tIeih Anne Larson, Tn iulihlullv realms religtous Teachings under The quchfuT eye of her insTrucTor. SisTer Mary TPomelo Mundy. '92; This fall The leaves were Turning Shades of biue uns. The miIiTcry police. CI 200- keeper, 0 Holiywood produc- er, 0 man in a whiTe com. and The concenTroTed efforTs of several Augie sTudenTs. Combine These elemenTs and whoT do you geT? ..... Ah Augie pony? No. jusT cnoTher successful fall season for The Augusfono College Theafre. The 4988-89 season offered stu- denTs a chance To show Their abiii- Ties n01 only on siege, buT in The direcTor's chair as well. ACT began The foil season wiTh The House of Blue Leaves. c: New York Drama CriTics Awardewinning ploy wriTTen by John Guore. 11's The sTory of ArTie Shoughnessy Ueff Cor- michoel, '923, c: zookeeper pursuing his dreams of o songwriTing career, and The sTrcnnge diversTTy of charac- Ters who cross his path along The way. Among These chorocTeTs Three nuns TDiono Bounds, '92: Susan 3T0- pouios. '89; and Mary OeTTinger. TQQT, The miliTory police TShown Mle- kush, 'QOj, and c saniTorium worker CDovid Bryson, '90. Adding To This mix ArTie's wife, Bananas TAnno Donaldson. 'QTT end his mistress, Bunny TChTisTin Rue, '92. as weil as ArTie's AWOL son. Ronnie Michael Schulz, 'QCD end his Holiywood pro- ducer friend. BiITy Einhorn Godd FrompTon, 'BQT Very funny and able performances by These ncTors 0nd ccTresses mode for G copTivuTing producTion. Two sTudenT-direcfed, one-ccT plays compleTed The fall scheduie: Cowboy Mouth, by Sam Shepard and POTTT SmiTh; 0nd Slslef Mary lg- naTius Explains II All For You. by ChrisTopher Durong. Todd FrompTon. '89, directed Cowboy Mouth wiTh The help of As- sisTonT DireCTor ElizabeTh Mowry: '90. STuring in This one-GCT look 0T The seamier side of life were Susan STO- poulos, '89, Kaycee Shank, '92. and Eric Struck. '91. DirecTTng Sister Mary . . . wcs Mi- chael Schulz. 190. He was helped by AssisTonT DirecTor Lori Corroi. '89. This ThoughT-provoking sTudy uTiITzed hu- mor To raise quesTions abouT reli- gious hypocrisy, SisTer Mary was por- Trciyed by Pamela Mundv '92. STur- ring wiTh her weie BeTh Ann Larson. '90. Jeff Wichmcnn, '00, Mary OeT- Tinger. '92. Jennifer Fry, '92, end ChrTsTopher Hughes. '92. A Jeff For- reT. END

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Siruggllng rock siar SHm Grit: Shack '90 sings Io remember his H ng success 1n Cowboy Bunny tchrliiln Run, '93 ap- pear: oi Anieis dam, Ieudv for a morning of Pope-scopimg.

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InTenT races mark The MessTah and Te Deum rehearsoLs Gialow. IeTT To righn. On April 12Th, T742. George Frideric Handel's Messiah was first performed in Dublin. Ireland. A series of scripTurul verses, This choral work led The lisTener Through The life of ChrisT. ending wiTh The Messiah's final vicTory. lTs cenTrol Theme was the rev dempTion of men. ThoT April day in 1742 was surely a grand occasion. Over six hundred people oTTended The performance feoTuring Two cathedral choirs and several soloisTs. On December Tbth. TTTh. and TBTh. 1988. AugusTanc's Handel OrcTorio SocieTy performed Handel's mosTer- piece in CenTennicl Hall. conTinuing thT has been ChrisTmos season deiTion since The 4950's. The 300- voice chorus. conducted by Donald Morrison. accompa- nied The soloisTs. along wTTh The AugusTono Symphony OrchesTra, conducTed by Daniel Culver. The SocieTy once again broughT The beouTy of This wonderful piece of music To life for a delighTed CenTenniol crowd. The Spring performances by The Handel OraTorio Soci- eTy feoTured FaureTs Requ- em and Dvorak's Te Deum, 2b CulTuraT EvenTs