Dakota State University - Trojan Yearbook (Madison, SD)

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'i , S ! ABOVE: Hoping to hear whether or not Felix has flushed himself down the toilet bowl, FeIix's poker-playing chums listen at the bathroom door. AT RIGHT: Oscar disrupts a quiet poker game by spraying his pals with a newly opened can of beer. Niel Simon's The Odd Couple brought real hysteria to the stage of Kennedy Hall Auditorium as General Beadle's department of speech and drama presented the popular three- act comedy, November 1-3, Two of GB's veteran actors, Jim Benjamin and Tom Blair, portrayed the hilarious roles of tvvo gentlemen -Felix Unger and Oscar Madison- Who, as the result of marital prob- lems, decide to share an 8-room apartment in New York City. Helen J. Peterson and Jean l.or- ang enacted the roles of two Eng- Simon's The Cdd Cc: lish sisters who lived next door to the mismatched pair. Bright and humorous supporting roles were played by Steve Jones, Tim Nicholaisen, Jim Bauer, and Gary Nyland. The four gentlemen portrayed the poker-playing chums of the odd couple. Robert Clausen, technical direc- tor, artistically captured the atmo- sphere of a typical modern-day New York City apartment in his colorful Set. James L. Johnson served as direc- tor.

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FLUTES Georganne Blase Judy Rentschler Shirley Feller JoAnn Johnson Victoria Trautman BASSOON Carolyn Knox Bb CLARINETS Carolyn Acheson Ronald Beckman Anita Drake Theola Ekle Peggy Galloway Cindy Hanson Barbara l-lyink Barbara Kellen Gloria Owen ' ALTO CLARINET Kathleen Casey BASS CLARINET Donnelle l-lanke ALTO SAXOPHONE Bradley Koepsell James Rourk TENOR SAXOPHONE Jane Grimme Mary Klosterbuer BARITONE SAXOPHONE Sandra Chrlstenson CORNETS-TRUMPETS June Addy Thomas Cole Jon Gill Mary Lou Olson Tim Peterson Richard Turner Richard Wales FRENCH HORNS Jerold Johnson Joel Jorgenson. Connie Stoneback Steven Ziebarth BARITONES Elizabeth Nelson Neil Roskeland Denis Ziebarth TROMBONES Richard Buck Craig Johnson Joyce Lusk Theola Vetter Terry Folsland TUBAS Roger Abrahamson Pat Bohl PERCUSSION. Bob Andersen Susan Bulfer Irene Dugclale Patricia Getz Charlene Jacobson Dan Ryan Mary Zorr DIRECTOR Dr. Merrill E. Brown

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Qpens 1967-'68 Drama Seasgn ABOVE Oscar comforts Fellx and persuades hum to cancel hns rldlculous plan of sulclde and to move In and share his apartment LEFI' An an tuclpated evening of merrlment and romance hu larlously turns Into a sentimental orgy of tears for Fellx In his selflndulgent sorrow over has once happy marriage