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

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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

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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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A good show Price is S Practice “No one would believe the circumstances we practice under,” said Mrs. Anne McCaffery as she moved the green chair upstage. Practice for St. Edward’s April 6-8 production of LiJ’ Abner was basically sane. But in the two weeks preceding Opening Night, the hours grew longer. Mags girls who headed towards St. Ed’s after their last classes ended up staying there until as late as 11:00. To say that schoolwork “slipped” was a mild under¬ statement. Sleep was kept to a minimum. But at 8:00 on April 6, all signs of fatigue disap¬ peared as the adrenaline flowed. Fatigue was a little more apparent, however, in the faces of the girls involved in Irene. The St. Ignatius musical was performed the first and second weekends in April. Girls came into their 1-2 classes sleepily greeting friends they had just left nine hours before. “What time did you get home last night?” and “Did you get all of that stuff out of your hair?” were standard in¬ quiries. Back at Magnificat, Sophomore Laura Keating’s sound effects of a thunderstorm com¬ peted against Neil Diamond’s Hello Again. On one side of the closed velvet blue curtain, the lights were raised, and an outstanding track team practiced. On the other side, the white lights were dimmed, and an outstanding cast re¬ hearsed. As Mrs. Doyle led her team in warm-ups in the gym, the eight actresses of the one act play whispered their lines. But once the runners moved outside, the curtain was opened, the house lights were lowered, and Mrs. McCaffery took her place on the Port-a-Pit—a comfortable substitute for a director’s chair. A Marriage Has Been Disarranged was molded into an en¬ tertaining comedy. As track team members fil¬ tered in and out of the gym auditorium, some were distracted by the action on stage. Many stood beside the stage and acted as a recep¬ tive, encouraging audience for their classmates on stage. The scene at the Baldwin-Wallace One Act Play Festival was a little different. There the girls, in competition against eleven other schools, had everyone’s undivided attention. Im¬ mediately following the performance, the play was critiqued by the judge. Dr. William Zucchero praised senior Debbie Pauer’s acting, telling her, “You looked very at home with a bottle.” He also complimented senior Tammi Timko on her consistent characterization. And to senior Ann Smith he awarded a silver medal. When the play went on again for the student body four days later, the members of the track team led the audience in reacting to the action on stage. All that practice paid off. 0 —Anne Sheridan As they await pick ups for their own performance, Karen Crisafi ’86, Tamara Timko ’84 and Marilyn Cahill ’86 listen to Mrs. Doyle’s pointers for the track team. The one act play and the track team shared the gym on rainy afternoons. Photo by P. Klimko. PLAYS 25