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

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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

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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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I In the role of a woman detective, Carlann Telzerow ’84 offers her hypothesis on how to find the murder er in the “who done it” caper Any Number Can Die. The play was put on by the Ewardian Players of St. Edward’s High School. Photo by J. Bebbington. Hectic is the atmosphere of any dressing room be¬ fore a play, but senior Carole Saade finds it espec¬ ially so because she is in it. Carole was in St. Ignatius’s rendition of Irene the first two weeks of April. Photo by K. Schoeffler. With thunder sure to sound soon after the flash of lightning, Karen Crisafi ’86 and Marilyn Cahill ’86 and Tamara Timko ’84 stand ready for the inevitable boom. In A Marriage Has Been Disar¬ ranged, the storm brought on the prohibited conver¬ sation about home. Photo by P. Klimko. Because of her newly gained independence Kelley Keane ’87 assures Debbie Pauer ’84 and Tamara Timko ’84 that she would never break the rules of the Women Only Resort. After school rehearsals for the one act play became intense as the day of the competition at Baldwin Wallace approached. Photo by P. Klimko. 24 PLAYS