Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Resembling beached whales, these lower school students wait patiently for the sun to tan their pale bodies. May ' s eighty-degree temperatures attract students by the dozens to the pole-vault mat during seventh period. Early one morning, Wesley Grace fishes for his breakfast while on the FCA canoe trip. Coach John Cady and about forty upper- school outdoorsmen floated the Eleven-Point River in Missouri for two days last April. SPRING LIFE 1 1

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Pippin: A Quest for Meaning Pippin, a 1972 Broadway bit, was the pring, 1984, musical production. Directed )y Mr. Phillip Eikner, the play tells of Mppin ' s search for his place in life. Pippin is led through many adventures y the Leading Player, who shows him van, parties, love, and Anally death by Ire in a spectacular Hnale. Pippin chooses eve and the tedium of an unpretentious ife, and the show ends with the realization hat life, for all its mundaneness, is worth he struggle. The leading roles were played by Mike arroli as Pippin, Hudson Adams as the Leading Player, John Fulton and Lisa Rosen as Pippin ' s parents Charlamagne and Fastrada, Krissie Alexander as Pippin ' s grandmother Berthe, and Andrea Sabesin and John Minor as Catherine and Theo, Pippin ' s girlfriend and her son. The show required the most difficult choreography and technical work ever attempted by the theater group. Mr. Eikner, after directing his first school musical said, It was a real learning experience for me. I learned the need for organization and effective leadership, which I will try to carry into my next show. In a dazzling array of costumes and make-up, the cast comes together in a powerful, magical fmale. Everyone worked as hard as he could do to make my first show a success. Mr. Andy Saunders, who handled the technical and musical direction and who served as a kind of mentor for the young Eikner, summed it up well: Pippin is representative of the excellence in theater we have achieved at MUS. Everyone I talked to left the auditorium entertained as well as provoked to think about his own life. I) Swept off her feet by members of the chorus, Krissie Alexander lead I lively tune called No Time at All. 3} In need of divine intervention, Mike Carroll and John Minor pray that their duck will recover from its malady. The duck died, bowsver. 3) At merry on stage as he is off stage, Hudson Adams attempts to lighten the hearts of his audience. PIPPIN I U