Johnstown High School - Baronet Yearbook (Johnstown, NY)

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The Roof Smash Hit — Fiddler On FIDDLER ON THE ROOF was a real challenge to all involved, taxing the talents of such people as Sara Grabow- ski choregrapher, in large cast dance numbers like the wedding reception and pushing the directors, actors and musi- icians to the limits of their abilities. The light crew, set construction com- mittee, and art classes (advised by VV. Weldner) spent untold hours creating the illusion of pre-revolutionary Russia. After three nervous performances, fraught with the threat of light-board break-downs, stage manager Robert Russell, director Helen Russell, and band directors James Fransisco and James Hughston could relax to the over- whelming applause and congratulate the participants for a job well done at the cast party and annual Russell's picnic where Warren May and Laurie Becker (student directors) could go back to the normal” life of June exams. Everyone in band and chorus parti- cipated. Major roles were portrayed as follows: Tevye--Brian Oles, Golde-- Carle Hoover; the daughters--Tzeitel-- Julie Schreivogl, Hodel--Paula Carsky, Chava--Marie Slusher, Biclke--Michel- le Sandzik, and Shprintze--Denise Sand- zik; Motel (the tailor)--Neil Renvyle, Perchik (the revolutionary)--Warren May, Fyedke (the Russian gentile)--Guy Sponenburg, Yente (the matchmaker)-- Ethel Harrington, and of course the fiddler--Sara Grabowski, the Rabbi-- Perry Coughlin, and the lonely butcher-- Peter MacMillan. 10