Highmore High School - Hisodak Yearbook (Highmore, SD)

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ONE ACT PLAYS One Acts Are Crowd Pleasers Three one-act plays of a humor- ous nature were presented to a local audience January 23 in the auditorium and a matinee was put on for the grades K-8. The plays were under the direction of Barb Roseland. assisted by student di- rector. Jodi McDonnell The first play. A Memo from Ju- piter, revolves around the ques- tion of whether or not Cupid, in an age of computer dating and sin- gles bars, really has any function at all anymore. Can an eternal being whose function it is to over- see romance in the lives of mortals really be expected to find fulfill- ment in that job anymore? This play featured Steve OligmueHer as Jupitor. king of the gods. Justin Runestad as Mars, god of war; Jenny Nemec as Minerva, god- dess of wisdom. Kaela Goodrich as Venus, goddess of beauty. Dan Lusk as Cupid, god of love. Brian Ardry as Johnnie Rush, a theatrical agent for William Morris. Inc., and Julie Haiwick. Leanne Hoffman. Darin Larson. Jodi McDonnell, and Lori Newton as reporters and broadcasters “Cinderella Wore Combat Boots. the second play on the program, was a spoof of the famil- iar fairy tale Cinderella This play featured Jerry Hinkle as the story- teller. Gary Schmidt as the king. Mike Jetty as Prince Charming. Cathy Faulstich as Godzella. Patty Kilber as Mozarella. Becky Nemec as Motherella. and Christine Volek as Cinderella The last play. Two Fools Who Gained a Measure of Wisdom. was a play based on an Anton Chekov short story that tells of the anxiety experienced by a newly- wed who must make an obliga- tory visit to his wealthy, accentric old aunt who has financed his mar- riage to the sweet and gentle new bride He is terribly embar- rassed for his new wife to visit the old lady who lives in a decrepit old house, complains about her feet, smokes three cigars a day and keeps a pet monkey The cast of this play features Cindy Faulstich as the maid. Grant Garrigan as the husband. Jackie Neuharth as the wife, and Jill Pekarek as the aunt. Cinderella Wore Combat Boots was the play chosen to compete at the regional contest in Mobridge on January 29. Gary Schmidt and Cindy Faulstich both received awards for Best Support- ing Actor and Actress respective- ly One-Act Plays 9

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THIS PAGE: RIGHT: Jackie Neuharth and Grant Garrigan dancing together m the play Two Fools Who Gained a Measure of Wisdom.” BOTTOM: The cast for the one-act plays includes FRONT: D Lusk. G Schmidt. D. Larson. S. Oligmueler. M Jetty, and J Runestad SECOND ROW: C Faulstich, K. Goodrich. L. Newton. C. Volek. and J McDonnell THIRD ROW: Director. B Roseland. J Nemee. C. Faulstich. B Ardry. D. Hinkle. P KHber. J. Hinkle, and L. Hoffman BACK ROW: J Haiwick. J. Pekarek. J Neuharth. and B Nemec OPPOSITE PAGE: TOP LEFT: Cinderella. Christine Volek. is wondering why she can not go to the ball BOTTOM LEFT: Johnnie Rush, alias Brian Ardry. kisses Venus's hand, alias Koela Goodrich's, while being introduced BOTTOM RIGHT: Director Barbara Ro- seland talks to the cast of A Memo from Jupitor after dress rehearsal Pic- tured clockwise are J. Nemec. J. Run- estad. D. Larson. S. Ofcgmuefler. J. Haiwick. K Goodrich. D. Lusk. J. Mc- Donne . B Ardry. and B Roseland 8 On© Act Plays

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11 I ALL-SCHOOL PLAY Clumsy Custard Strikes With a taste of the bazaar, the three act play. The Clumsy Cus- tard Horror Show , also had a dash of silliness to it. Supporting a cast of 16 actors and many crew members, the play was a major production for the Highmore Dra- ma Club. The Highmore FHA pro- vided dinner before the play as they have done in previous years The characters were varied and many The part of the director was played by the real director herself. Barbara Roseland. Grant Garrigan was the slightly senile storyteller. Arnis Boheme. his helpers, the Ush- ers. were played by Lori Newton and Cathy Faulstich. Worfle. the three-horned beast and loyal friend to Swashbuck Valpariso. was played by Justin Runestad The part of Swashbuck Valpariso. master of fast feet and a hero of unparalled proportions, was por- trayed by Mike Jetty. Kaela Goodrich was the soon to be mar- ried Princess Prince, daughter of King Dumb Brian Andry was cast as King Dumb, the low on intellect ruler of Zob Proper while Jerry Hin- kle portrayed the evil and devious Dacron, ruler of Zob Improper In Dacron's service are the cruel and unusual Ice Cream Clones, twin sis- ters played by Jill Pekarek and Cin- dy Faulstich. while King Dumb has the not- so- valiant knights. Sir Prize. Sir Vival, and Sir Cumference who were played by Dan Lusk. Gary Schmidt and Kip Kusser re- spectively. Patty Kilber was Head, a forlorn women whose head was disengaged from her body when she refused to love Dacron. Steve Oligmueller and Jodi McDonnell were cast as the traitorous Mal- force and Alphasia. Matforce. who is. chief advisor to the king and Al- phasia, nanny to an unsuspecting Princess. Then of course there is the Clumsy Custard, an amoeba- like creature that feasts on royalty and peasants alike. The Custard was domesticated by the evil Da- cron and Dacron uses the Custard as a torture tactic. With the masterful storytelling of Arnis Boheme. the tale was told. The setting of the play is a magical kingdom called Zob. Of Zob there are two parts. Zob Proper and Zob Improper The plot twists oround the motive of Dacron to success- fully woo the Princess Prince. How- ever. Dacron is not the only one who seeks to woo the Princess. Swashbuck Valpariso also wishes to woo her Rumored to have fallen prey to the Fungus people. Swashbuck and Worfle encounter everything from turkey spiders and mistaken identity to the evil designs of the Ice Cream Clones. Polly and Ester, in their quest for the Princess. After one failure. Dacron manages to capture the Princess with the aid of Malforce and Alphasia Swash- buck. learning of the capture, sets out to find her. But alas, with a heavy heart for he has fallen in love with a scullery maid who is really the Princess in disguise. Meanwhile, the Princess believes the young Swashbuck to be an itinerate raisin washer. With the help of his clones and Malforce. Dacron manages to take away the power of fast feet from Swashbuck However, while Dacron looks for an escaped Prin- cess. Worfle applies an antidote, supplied by the reformed Head, to the weak Swashbuck. Swashbuck gets back his fast feet and does away with Dacron. The end of this tale was a typi- cal ending as Swashbuck and the Princess recognized each other as the scullery maid and the raisin washer and lived happily ever after with the Clumsy Custard as their pet And anyone guilty of treachory was reprimanded Jockie Neuharth wds assistdnt director while Doug Hinkle was in charge of lighting and sound ef- fect. Stacy Rodman furnished cos- tuming Many of the cast pitched in to build and decorate the set. Christine Volek. Jackie Dittman, and Leanne Hoffman aided the actors with their stage make-up and special effects. They dlso as- sisted the light technician and the director when needed. 10 All-School Play