Gateway High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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XX il I Remember Mama I Remember Mama was The musical ThaT was puT on March 'IA-I6 in The spring. IT was abouT a Norwegian family of seven. The children were KaTrin The oIdesT, Johanna Mama's shadow, Nils The only boy, ChrisTine The braT, and Dagmar The youngesT who was seven. The sTory is was narraTed by KaTrin. IT Told of The ups and clowns ThaT The family had from being poor and a how Mama seemed To make everyThing beTTer. The Trouble sTarTed when Papa IosT his job and wanTed To go back To Norway because They would lose The house wiThouT paying Three hundred dollars. Some of The oTher characTers in The play were Uncle Chris a rich family member, The AunTs CTrina, Jenny and Sigridj, Mr. Thorkelson, Mr. McGuire, BriTTa, Dame Sybil FiTzgibbons and The docTor. - The sTory ends when KaTrin, who wanTs To be a wriTer, sells a sTory To a magazine and geTs five hundred dollars for iT. The family buys The house and doesn'T have To go back To Norway. Many long hours of hard work from The acTors, acfresses, orchesTra, sTagehands and Technical TheaTer sTudenTs wenT inTo This producTion and iT Turned ouT To be auiTe successful. The children, Shelly HuTchings, Brandy Bradford, Jill STrampeI, Heidi Lindemann and Greg STraighT preTend To see a bird. 132 I R TTTBTYTDBT MGTTWCJ David Cowles, Lisa Parker and Amy SchmiT waTch The Hardangerfjord. . W 1--. -.-..-v ...- .,-..-.- V,

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Flowers For Algernon Sr. Roberf Brink cuTTing Sr. Myke SargenTs hair. Sr. Myke SargenT as Charlie. The GaTeway TheaTer ArTs Class has a few differenT direc- Tions a sTudenT can go. Some of The classes are lnTroducTion To drama which gives The sTudenT an insighT abouT Themselves and TheaTer. TheaTer ArTs l, Teaches a sTudenT abouT The hisTory of The- aTer. Drama ll Teaches The sTu- denTs abouT The behind The scenes look aT crew, cosTume, and acTing. Drama lll and IV are abouT The same, only The sTudenT geTs To produce scenes. Tech TheaTer Teaches The sTudenT how To build a seT for a producTion. High school TheaTer is noT aT a professional level. IT's invesTiga- Tive and shows sTudenTs ThaT aloT more goes inTo a producTion ThaT jusT whaT you see on sTage. High school TheaTer is an invesTigaTive experience ThaT leTs sTudenTs ex- plore differenT aspecTs of TheaTer arTs. Some of The plays being done for The 841-85 school year are Flowers For Algernon and a musi- cal I Remember Mama. A cockTail parTy in Charlies honor. Flowers For Algernon is abouT a young man who is menTally reTarded, becomes inTelligenT and Then reTurns To being menTally reTarded. Dr. STrauss and Profesor Nemur have experimenTed wiTh all sorTs of mice To increase Their inTelligence. One parTicular mouse is really inTelli- genT because of an operaTion. Charlie is broughT To sTrauss and Ne- mur by his Teacher who is Alice Kinnian. They discuss The operaTion and decide ThaT Charlie is a good candidaTe. AfTer The operaTion Charlie is highly inTelligenT buT afTer Time his inTelli- gence fades forever. Then he's back To being good old reTarded Charlie. - Winfer Play 431

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David Cowles played Papa and Lisa Robison played The lead role of Mama. Cindy Thomas fAunT Trinay and Erik Woelhoff CPeTer Thorkelsony al The parly dance. The children Iislen To Chip Davis QUncIe Chrisy sing Easy Come, Easy Go. Spring Musical 133