Central High School - O Book Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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School-girls, we, eighTeen and under, Trom scholasTic Trammels Tree. Even if Nanki-Poo doesn'T like me, aT leasT I have one Tan. The Mikado The CenTral l-ligh A Cappella choir under The direcTion oT Mrs. Elsie l-lowe Jensen presenTed The popular C5ilberT and Sullivan opera, The Mikado, December lo-I7. A chorus OT smiling maidens in shimmering kimonos, digniTied nobles in long, Tlowing robes. and colorTul scenery combined To make The Mig: kado a pageanT oT changing color. i Richard Jordan delighTed The audience wiTh his char-acTerizaTion oT Ko-Ko, The l.ord l-ligh Execu- Tioner. ln his proposal To KaTisha The play reaches a comic heighT. Peggy Bryans deserves praise Tor- her excellenT porTrayal oT The love-blighTed spinsTer. OTher ouTsTanding perTormances in The opera were Diane Purviance's role oT Yum-Yum, The'her- oine, and Jim l-lorky's porTrayal oT Nanki-Poo, The Mikado's son. ii This was The Third Time This lighT-hearTed opera? has been perTormed on The CenTral sTage. f In i932 The Mikado was given Tor The TirsT Time under The direcTion oT Mrs. Carole PiTTs. Mr. Ed Clark, now an English Teacher aT CenTral, played The parT oT Ko-Ko in This producTion. Mrs. Jensen was direcTor oT The chorus and cosTume manager in This producTion oT The Mikado. The second producTion oT The Mikado was in l95I under The guidance oT Mrs. Jensen,

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Mrs. Molloy, +here's a man in H1ere. Drive -I-hem +o fhis address. maker over-energelric malclirnalcer who lilces lo arrange and rearrange people's lives and does so lireguenlly. Bill Abernallwy as Cornelius l-laclcl and James Cliilde as Barnaby Tucker visil New Yorlc for a lilrlle excilemenl and soon find Themselves mixed up in a zany, unbelievable plolr. Peggy Bryans, Ardyce Gidley, Gary l-lar'rman,Je1Cf Porneranlz and Mariana Gesman played imporranl roles, also. Orlier sup- porring aclors added ro Hue old-lime flavor of Jrlwe play. Sludenl direclor Jolfin Spilzer and slage man- ager Nancy l-lerzoll were big faclors in Jrlwe ulli- rnalre success of+l1is produciion. 757 Ji? . .. 'C GUY Haffman Bill Abernafhy Jeff Pomeranrz 'Ash an insl'1uH'.

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