Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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y airfield High School Music and Drama Departments present Thursday, May 8 Triday, May 9 and Saturday. May 10 r airfield High School Auditorium 8:00 PM H k lu lucl Sirs» ji t Mums jin) I vruvhv Jrm Met mu li.(NTvti n lhcpl.»v I Ml MAtC IIM kl KK I . V HELLO DOLLY Well-Well-Helllllooo Dolly, Well Hello Dolly, it's so nice to have you back where you belong .... The strains of this and other tunes from the Broadway musi- cal, Hello Dolly lifted through the halls of FHS from January until May. Few will forget the near capacity crowds that filled FHS auditorium May 8,9, and 10 or the ravishing praise that echoed for weeks after it was over. But perhaps we should start at the beginning- Meetings were held in early September in order for directors Scott Brigham and Ross Coodell to gage the interest level in putting on a musical. They were pleasantly surprised for the room was full. The show was chosen, scripts and music or- dered, and financial plans were set in motion. The set was designed and redesigned. For a new dimension to FHS audi- torium, Clark Smith and Mark Goehring built a runway around the pit. This allowed action to be brought right into the audiance's lap. It was used for galloping waitors, dancing girls and as a makeshift sidewalk. Not until the middle of February did the real work begin. Auditions were held two nights with call-backs three days after that. For 60-plus people, those days were agonizing. Finally, after much deliberation and careful consideration, the list went up. These people and 24 other bit parts and village people started 8 weeks of dancing, singing, and sweating. No one involved will ever forget sourball sales, nose jokes, dreams of styro- foam, the domino theory (concerning waiters) warmups, cos- tume anxiety, the pit piano, the live elephant, monkey poems, oh shut up , old twirler uniforms, Janette's words of wisdom, breaking the 2nd and 3rd night jinx, the tears be- fore, during, and after each performance, the power that all of us could feel both onstage and off, and the so many moments that can never be described. Hello Dolly brought 35 people together in a way not dreamed possible in the beginning. It started new friendships and strengthened old ones. It also proved to many people in the community that high school people can do a first-rate show that people will talk about for years to come. Hello Dolly was many things to many people, but most of all, it was fun! THE CAST Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi Ernestina Mr. Ambrose Kemper Mr. Horace Vandergelder Ermengarde Mr. Cornelius Hackle Mr. Barnaby Tucker Mrs. Irene Molloy Miss Minnie Fay Mrs. Rose Rudolph Waiter 1 ................ Waiter 2 Stanley Policeman Court Clerk ............. Judge BARBARA J. STANLEY ..... KATHY STOLTZ DAVE RILEY DONALD R. MILHOLIN II TINA ANKERBAUER CLARK A. SMITH MARK DAVID LASLO CAROL DHOTT ANNE MARIE HERR PEGGY OGDEN SCOTT WISECARVER ALLEN SHAFER ALAN PEASLEE STEPHEN C. BEKEL BRIAN HILL PEGGY DOYLE RICHARD HADLEY Director and Choreographer-Raymond Scott Brigham Music Director-Russell Coodell Conductor-Ron Prill Stage Directors-Mark Goehring and Clark Smith Assistant Director-Jan Schillerstrom Stage Manager-Richard Hadley 73

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1. The Younkers Train Station is the setting for the exuberant song and dance number, Put on Your Sunday Clothes Z Just give me five minutes of your time and One, two, three - one, two, three presto Barbra Stanley has Clark Smith dancing around the stage. 3. Not without a search warrant! 4. Oblivious to the fact that Clark Smith handed her the hat box, Anne Herr will next appear screaming, There's a man in there. 5. It takes a woman for weaning the Guernsy and clearing the stable, sings the all male chorus. 22

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