Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Variety Show: 180 A Hit!!! As the house lights dim, Mr. Lee Smith’s show band strikes up the jazzy strains of Thus Spake Zarathustra to prelude the annual Variety Show. The curtain is drawn, Mr. Milton Anderson raises his baton, and the A Cappella Choir sings I Know I’ll Never Find Another You.’’ Girls from the band and orchestra dance expressively to the beats of Shaft,” Call Me Madam, Dancing in the Dark, and Gypsy, while instrumentalists clad in colorful costumes add a little variety by performing Tropical Trumpets, Clarinet Caprice, and Huckleberry Flute. Larry Anderson then per- forms a flawless tap dance while the trombones play a version of Tea for Two.

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Accompanied by Mrs. Norma Anderson, vocalists Terry O’Conner and Debbie Posey perform tender solos to ‘‘A Time for Us and The Way We Were. The A Cappella helps the audience feel at home with excerpts from the musicals “Oliver and Promises, Promises, and the Senior Ensemble adds choreogra- phy to their number, “Feeling. Jenni Mayer, Jennie Jackson, and Julie Jurgens present a classic “Melo- drama and Bill Iglehart and Eric Clausen liven things up with their act, “Noah and the Lord. The fantastic Skunk River Pickers then present Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and Betty Barbalics performs an interpre- tive dance to “All the Things You Are. Mark Arnold sings an expressive solo while playing the guitar and harmonica. The crowd roars with laughter during the Band Parents dance line, Midnight Fire Alarm and the traditional boys dance line, “Wildwood Flower, choreographed by Jacque Chance. The show is top- ped off with the theme song, “There's Only One of You, and the cast heads for the square dancin’ cast party, where they all almost passed out from exhaus- tion. 182