New Haven High School - Mirage Yearbook (New Haven, IN)

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Musical Produced After A Year ' s Rest Start with talented, young perform- ers, add a little g rease paint, a little hard work, and a pinch of, well, pinching, and the Spring perform- ance of Once Upon a Mattress had something for everyone. If royalty was your bag, you saw plenty of that, or a love story — that was there, too. Or a bawdy, mute king with a preference for serving girls, plus a far-from-mute queen . . . And if you just liked plain fun, music and dancing — all of those were there. Behind the strong voices of Sen- iors Laura Coffman (Winifred) and Barb Masterson (Lady Larkin) and junior minstral Scott Rathgaber, the cast sung and danced its way through the piece, originally starring Carol Burnett. The story was based on the chil- dren ' s tale, The Princess and the Pea with variations like a quiz show run by the queen, (junior Lori Drayer) and a crooked magician (sen- ior Scott Davis) to search for an eligi- ble princess, and a certain lack of enthusiasm on the queen ' s part to the idea of her son ' s marriageability. However you counted and added it up, the ingredients turned up three nights of entertainment — and a hilarious good time. The aspiring Princess Winifred (Laura Coffman), has fun at the Queen ' s Ball. Winifred ' s drink is drugged so she will fail the test of a princess. The King is struck mute. Marc Todd has the difficult task of keeping quiet during most of the play. •

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Why Mondays? After you have had that fantastic weekend, it seems to always get spoiled by Monday. You wake up and somehow you manage to get to school. After you have been in first period for about 15 minutes, the guy sitting next to you yawns. Naturally you follow suit and so does the girl sitting behind you, and the girl sitting beside her, until the yawn has reached epidemic proportions. After the bell finally rings you get pushed along to second period. Today ' s the day the teacher desig- nated as note day. It figures, you barely have enough energy to stay awake, much less push a pencil. Third period you find out your class is having a guest speaker to tell you all about The 31 things you can do with eggs, You ' ve just thought of 32. Fourth period is the period that lasts an eternity, but today you are saved. The teacher is showing a movie! As soon as the lights are out, heads are dropping like flies. Another equally boring class. By now you are fighting extra hard to keep your eyes open. Just as you have drifted off to a light sleep, the teacher drops his solid lead globe and you are awak- ened with a start. Sixth period is always the longest period of the day. The only thing that keeps you going is that you know if you can make it through this day, there will not be another — Monday for at least six more days. Chemistry proves to be a bad class for Monday mornings. Jeff Detro hides behind his hat to catch a few Z-Z-S. Too tired to even click the camera, Jon Haverstick rests.

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The queen ' s temper was hardly pleasing to anyone in the play. Lori Drayer scolds Prince, Kurt Swank. Ron Forks plays court subject, Sir Harry. The Gypsy Princess Winifred, (Laura Coffman), appears after swimming the moat to get into the castle.