Northeast High School - Charger Yearbook (North Little Rock, AR)

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. , , CONCENTRATION - junior Dara Hall listens to the debate going on about whether or not headset devices should be banned on thoroughfares during Student Congress. Those attending Student Congress were debate students. Photo by Greg Powell W do it all for you Drama students keep audience in mind as they select plays and perform, for offending audience is deadly he popular McDonald's com- to consider their level of maturity mercial - We do it all for and what they have seen before. you - was a fitting theme When we did 'Music Man' we for students enrolled in performing arts classes such as band, choral music, speech, and drama. For pleasing their audiences was a top priority, and their performances were planned with that goal in mind. Drama II student, Jeff Seabaugh, explained that pleasing an audience requires knowing it. Most people in our audiences are teenagers, he said. So when we pick a play or plan a dance we have knew that many in our audience had never seen a live stage production before, jeff continued. They are accustomed to radio and television. If we try to give them something that is over their heads, they are offendedfl Jeff added that offending an audience is deadly to the show. The whole idea is playing to an audience, he said. If they donlt get the message, then your purpose is defeated. - By Karen Salmon GETTING IT READY - Sophomore Lajoya Warren puts the finishing touches on a sketch during her sixth period art class. Photo by Greg Powell SPOTLIGHT SOLO - Concert choir members pause as exchange student Yuko Suzuki sings a solo in her native language. Photo by Beth Brady KEEPING COUNT - Seniors David Beebe and Christy Hicks practice a dance used in the play The Matchmaker, a production by the drama department. Photo by Beth Brady We do it all for you!6l

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WHATS THAT YOU SAID - Cornelius Haclcel CDavid Beebej stands in awe as Barnaby Tucker Ueff Seabaughj tries to convince him that Mrs. Malloy's hat shop is the perfect place to hide from their boss. Photo by Robert Miller We do it all for ou Complimenting actors and getting audience into the action is goal of stagecraft, and the method is creating 'real thing' he audience was also the prime concern for stagecraft students who came up with everything from a giant Santa's lap for the Christmas assembly to a trap door for the fall production of The Matchmaker. Senior Angie Cook, stagecraft student and technical director for Encore, said that getting the audience into the action means re-creating everything. lt has to look real so the audience will feel like they are really there, she said. Angie added that creating the real thing isn't always easy. Taking a high school person and making him look 50 years old is hard to do, she explained. The make-up has to 'age' him and make him look natural at the same time. He has to look real for the audience to accept him. Every member of the audience must be able to see and hear everything that happens on the stage. Angie said that this requir- ement complicates set assignments such as the trap door that was used in The Matchmaker. Our stage doesn't have a lower level, so the trap door had to be designed under a platform, she said. The scenes on top of the platform, which was four feet tall, had to be visible for everyone in the audience. At the same time, the platform had to be big enough to hide actors and crew members who supplied everything from voices to exploding tomato cans on cue.'l Angie said that while the sets are important, they can't take away from the actors and action. Everything must compliment everything else, she said. The set is built around the actors, the actors use the set, and the audience can enjoy the show, - By Denise Clay 62!Acaclemics STYLE AND GRACE - Michael Tidwell, a dance instructor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, joins the Drama II class in an exercise to improve students' ballet techniques. Dance was anew dimension added to the drama department. Photo by Vicki Causey