Bloom High School - Bloom Yearbook (Chicago Heights, IL)

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ABOVE: Mr. Curry awaits his ticket at the box office on opening night of Our Town, ABOVE LEFT: There is nothing more hectic than the make-up session prior to a performance. I.hl-T: Sandy Gonzales tries to make up with George Kristina before he steals a scene on stage. 29

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Our Town Not Built in a Day Huneryager calls stage tech crew most reliable kids in school” ABOVE: Dave Ramey is caught in the act. RIGHT: Doug Campbell concentrates on completing one of the many small jobs which go into making a major production such as Our Town a success. The audience watching Our Toum saw actors in authentic costumes going about the business of moving through life, with all its joy and sorrow, in a small town. What the audience did not see was the number of people behind the scenes who made the production possible-from publicity to props and all the jobs in between. Mr. David Hun- eryager, the technical director of Our Town, said of these students: The stage and tech crews that worked on Our Town were the most reliable kids in this school. They worked best when the deadline was only twenty four hours away.” Mr. Huneryager was assisted by Jane Petrongelli who served as student direc- tor. Students who worked on set con- struction were Jim Jaeger, Doug Camp- bell, Armando Martinez, Harmon Winters, Julie Seaver, Patty Mazzu- ckelli, Alice Petrongelli, and Brian Nel- son. Tony Gasbarro worked the ropes, and Rich Wolff and Joe Zilligen set up the lights. Michelle Angellotti, the make- up chief, was assisted by Barb Neves. Beatrice Cuellar, who was in charge of props, made sure that the authenticity of the set was obvious, and Alice Petro- ngelli, the house manager, kept the play flowing smoothly during its presentation. Mary Jo Kringas, publicity chairper- son for Our Toum, was assisted by a committee which included Beverly Lin- dsey, Julie Seaver, Jamie Mascitti, Alice Chambers, and Diane McGarel. Thanks to all these people for creating Our Toum from an empty stage. 28

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Our Town Captures City of Bloom Our Town, A Pulitzer Prize winning play, consisted of a plot which involved three aspects of life in three scenes. They were: Love, Marriage, and Death. Phil Casey and Dionna Androzzo were included in the Love” scene as George and Emily Gibbs, a married couple who lived in Grovers Corners, New Hamp- shire. Their lives before their marriage as well as long after their marriage are shown as viewed through the three per- spectives of the play. The scenes involving Marriage” and Death” showed the interaction of the Gibbs family and the Webb family as they moved through their lives in this small New England town. Performed on a nearly bare stage with very few props, the performers seemed to ask the members of the audience to focus on the emptiness of the characters’ lives. In emphasizing this aspect of the play, the cast provided a method by which the observers of the Gibbs and Webb fam- ilies could come to some realizations about their own lives. ABOVE: Phil Casey and Karen Leone make themselves at home. BELOW LEFT: Dawn Briggs goes about one of the many ordinary tasks of Grovers Corncrs-fccding chickens. BELOW RIGHT: Jamie Mascitti. as Professor Willard, helps the audience to better understand the intellectual at- mosphere of his town. 30