Barton Community College - Spoke Yearbook (Great Bend, KS)

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Todd Conklin portrays Nicely-Nicely Johnson during a performance of “Guys and Dolls.” (Photo by Tim Cook) Lori Klug and Angela Gamer are up part of the supporting cast of the spring musical, (photo by Tim Cook) nyr jri ' .s- j t Vv v-v ’JLm SSBvw WtU.wj M j j 3H 4N| i r » ■ •[ , . m if 2 ylf lr 1 • • rft w • |t» 1 tjfmj 1, a .if L-lf ' l if 1 M r ■ 1 1 1? r Vr Vra, .W i SB i ■ ' ,V ' • • ‘ ' .J‘ BCCC presents ‘Guys and Dolls’ “Guys and Dolls” was performed as Bar¬ ton County Community College spring musical. The cast was made up of sur¬ rounding community members as well as students.Tryouts were held and rehear¬ sals started in the spring semester. The setting of the play was the late 1940s or early 1950s. The play centers around the adventures of Nathan Detroit and the Save-A-Soul-Mission. K.B. Bell played the part of Nathan Det¬ roit and Karen Garber played the part of his girlfriend Miss Adelaide. Ken Shaheen, music instructor directed the vocal part of the play. Helping students and commuinity members rehearse, J.B. Webster instructor of in¬ strumental music conducted the orches¬ tra. Students enrolled at BCCC and musicians from surrounding communities devoted many hours to orchestra rehear¬ sal. Karyl Morrison, Great Bend, directed the musical for the first time this year. Karen Graber, Julie Zorn, Pam Treat, Kim Darrough, Trease Ensminger made up the danceline of The Hot Box Dolls. (Photo by Tim Cook) Theater 19

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Castmembers of “Guys and Dolls” finish with a grand finale, (photo by Tim Cook). Karen Graber portrays Miss Adelaide during the performance of “Guys and Dolls”. Marvin Birzer portrays Sky Masterson and Lorene Dykes played Sarah Brown in the spring musical. (Photo by Tim Cook) 18 Theater

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“J.B.” brought to BCCC The play “J.B.” is a modernized version of the book of Job in the Bible. It was pre¬ sented April 23,24 and 25. In the play God and Satan are portrayed as circus venders. They have a bet that J.B. will curse God if everything he has is taken from him and he is stricken with dis¬ ease. Most of the play took place in .J.B’s house where he and his wife Sarah were continuously faced with the deaths of their children. In the end J.B. accepted God’s will. God blessed him by returning Sarah to him. Everything that was taken from him was returned two fold. All of the people involved put in many extra hours of work to put the production together. Sara Neill said, “ I thought it was a good play to challenge our acting abilities.” J.B. played by Randy Schmidt tells a story about his luck to his children played by Sara Metcalf, Sara Neill, Melissa Harvey Nicholas Beck, Beth Stegman and Tracey Smith. 20 Theater