Magnificat High School - Magnifier Yearbook (Rocky River, OH)

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Unique hairstyles, courtesy of an Especially For You Beauty Salon hairdresser, adds to the makeup of Sue Liggett ’86. Sue played the part of an actress in the musical. Photo by A. Sheridan. Hot Box Girls line the stage creating a scene remi¬ niscent of a chorus line. Their dances and songs kept the audience coming back for more. Photo by A. Sheridan. A perfect closing to Act 1, Sarah Brown (Ann Smith ’84) catches Sky Masterson (Willy Mino ’86) off guard with an uninhibited expression of her feelings while in a state of mild intoxication. The two sang I’ve Never Been in Love Before in the last scene of Act 1. Photo by A. Sheridan. 22 GUYS AND DOLLS

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A Woman’s Touch the first time this year. And, of course, the Magnificat Key Club joined forces with the clubs from the boys schools. Together they planned service projects to fulfill community needs. Occasionally, one or two members of the Magnificat yearbook staff ventured down to the EDWARDIAN office. Timing her visits close to deadlines, a visiting Mags girl was welcomed to lend her expertise to the publication and no one complained about her adding “a woman’s touch.” With all the services performed by Mags girls at all-boys schools, we felt a sense of obligation to our female comrades. Many guys reciprocat¬ ed by helping out with things at Magnificat. Once the Ed’s yearbook was well under control, St. Edward senior Jim Bebbington and junior John Heffernan assisted the DAWNING staff with everything from tracing miniature layouts to printing pictures. ACCOLADE advisor Mr. John McCartney allowed senior Anne Sheridan to visit St. Francis de Sales High School to observe the production of a national award-winning yearbook. At the Toledo all-boys school, she saw the development of the awesome designs of junior Jeff Zawodny and was introduced to the wonder of a Comp set typesetter by junior Kevin Blochowski. In preparation for the Cleveland State Model United Nations, St. Edward senior Kevin Gleeson helped JCWA president Christine Mack ’84 and her diplomatic cohorts research posi¬ tions and prepare their opinions. It turned out that the Magnificat delegates couldn’t have asked for more able assistance, as the St. Ed¬ ward delegates won the Cleveland State com¬ petition. The Magnificat musical, Guys and Dolls, just couldn’t have gone on without the guys. St. Ed¬ ward ’83 Sean Aylward and St. Ignatius ’86 Willy Mino were two of the twenty males who made the “Guys” part of Guys and Dolls credi¬ ble. The company also enlisted the services of the St. Edward Orchestra for the musical accompaniment that contributed significantly to the raving success of the play. Those were just a few of the services ex¬ changed between Mags girls and guys from the all-boys schools. Above all those things, though, was that being around Mags girls reminded us that, after sitting all day in a classroom with 29 other guys, there was more to life than football and sweat.fll —James Bebbington During a Lil’ Abner rehearsal, Colleen Sweeney ’85 and John Peffer 84, St. Edward, and other chorus members await their cues to go on. The small gym and stage at St. Ed’s became home to the Mags girls for those six weeks of rehearsal. Photo by J. Bebbington. AT GUYS SCHOOL 21

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Give my regards to the players of Broadway’s Hit Musical Broadway’s hit musical Guys and Dolls came to the Magnificat stage in four action packed performances. While the actors and actresses were bringing Runyonland to life in front of the footlights, another show was going on back- stage. Some of the cast sat quietly in a section of their dressing room rehearsing their lines. Others hurried to speed up a costume change, concentrating on making cues. Someone had brought a radio which played while many of the actors and actresses sat around it listening. A few danced or sang quietly to let off a little excess energy. Some psyched themselves for the Lady Luck scene by betting stage money on that inevitable crap game. There were even a few in the cast who managed to get some homework done during those infrequent free moments. A certain amount of tension, both onstage and backstage, drew the cast and crew of Guys and Dolls together to form a “family”. In this close-knit circle of friends, everything came sec¬ ond to the show. This sometimes caused a little trouble in school. The excuse of play practice grew worn, but it worked long enough to get the show on the boards. “The applause after each show made all the long hours of rehearsal worth it,” said Naomi Straka ’86. Guys and Dolls went on after good, bad, and even blacked-out rehearsals. Through two months of rehearsals, the people drew clos¬ er together and put on a weekend of shows which could only have been performed by a group that were just as comfortable with each other onstage as they were off.1 1 — Kathy Schoeffler Adelaide (Kris Koma ’86) advises Sarah (Ann Smith ’84) to “Marry that man today and change his ways here after.’’ By the end of the play both “dolls’’ had married their “guys’’ and lived happily ever after. Photo by A. Sheridan. GUYS AND DOLLS 23