Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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...nan-ull 'imit- v l ? l i s Marzo, laughter fills aadzfcmam Singing Magze To Do, the Northwest Singers opened Bearlerqae '84 on May 4 and 5. The two-night variety show was held in the Northwest theatre and was presented by students in the vocal and instrumental music departments. Many different acts were performed throughout the show. Because of the strong vocal department, 11 of the 37 different acts were solos. The style of music and mood varied with each performer as 96 ' Bearlesque evidenced with Holly Kardatzke's romanti lyrics Can 't Hehb Lovin' That Man, to Bruc Adam's version of Y0u're Never Full Dressed Without... Sharla Vogt performel a serious solo, A Pzece of Shy, from th movie Yenlle. The audiences identified with each of th different acts. The taste of the progran ranged from a comedy monologue witl Edith Ann to a song chant by tht Northwest Singers about basketball. Th Singers also performed a series of 50's song called Golden Age of Roch and Roll. Ad ding to the 50's theme was the Sophomor Choir's performance of the Happy Day Medley.

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can have the visitors body when Dracula is through with it. In the first act, Dr. jack Seward and Mina Harker discuss the illness of Lucy Westerna. lNo one seems to know the source of her illness. Because they cannot solve the pro- blems, Seward asks a specialist and friend, Pro. A. Van Helsing to come and examine Lucy. What is wrong with Lucy? Van Helsing's diagnosis is that of a vampire bite. The Ivampire that is better known as Count Dracua. By being a living corpse, Count Dracula sustains life by drinking the blood of live human beings. Lucy dies later from the bite of Dracula, and walks the earth in limbo. But is finally put to rest when the professor and Richard Stockman stab her through the heart with a stake and cut off her head. Throughout the play, Prof. Van Helsing 3 5 .45 and Dr. Seward spend much of their time looking for Dracula. When they finally find Dracula, they drive a stake through his heart and kill him, just as they did to Lucy, but not before Dracula gives a big fight try- ing to gain one more innocent victim. CAST MEMBERS Dracula ........,........ Monte Brunner jonathan Harker . . . ..... justin Miller Vampira ................ Debbie Shaffer . . . . . . Kara Goodpasture, Laurene Hukle Dr. jack Seward ............ Bruce Adams Mina Harker ........ .... C indy Young . . .Dawn Strahan Richard Stockman. . . .... Bill Hinkle .Chris Knitig Pro. A. Van Helsing. . . ...... Paula Ellis Lucy Westerna ..... Renfield ........... . . Lord Holmwood . . . ....... jeffEngelken Director ........ . . .Clayton Crenshaw -Kelli Brown TOP LEFT: Walking around a cemetary in the fog of the night, Prof. Van Helsing CPaula Ellisl, Richard Stockman fBill Hinklej and Dr. Seward fBruce Adamsj look for the resting place of Luck Westerna. BOTTOM LEFT OUTSIDE: Fighting for his life, Dracula lies in his coffin wounded while Prof. Van Helsing fPaula Ellis? and Richard Stockman fBill Hinkley work together to kill him. BOTTOM LEFT INSIDE: While visiting the castle. jonathan Harker Qustin Millerj listens as Dracula Uvlonte Brunnerj plans the events for the evening. CENTER: As the plot thickens, Prof. Van Helsing 1Paula Ellisj, Dr. Seward fBruce Adamsl, Richard Stockman fBill Hinkley, Mina Harker fCindy Youngj andjonathan Harker Uustin Millerj discuss how to kill Count Dracula before he takes any more unsuspecting souls. RIGHT: Greeting his guest for the evening, Dracua CMonte Brunnerj welcomes jonathan Harker Uustin Millerj at the front door of his castle. Dracula 0 95

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? bg l 3' -c Qt. 5 . 4 S 5 .. . ,gs il fwuilil W The act receiving the loudest laugh from oth audiences was the Weathemomen alias Genia johnson and Rhoda cwilliamsj to the song It 'J Raz'm'ng Men. hese two over-weight females sang and danced around the stage rejoicing about the availability of men falling from the sky. Northwestls Stage Band played Sweet Seorgze Brown, Can't Stop, Portuguere Cove and Norwegzkzn. Seniors Shane Ap- Jlegate, Kris Oblinger and juniors David img and Wade Evans performed solos with :he above selections. M.C.'s for the performances were Lora -lull, Bruce Adams and Derrick Nielsen ivho entertained the audiences with magic tricks. If they were not tieing up Nielsen with rope to see if he could escape, they were trying old card tricks. The only suc- cessful trick of the three M.C.'s was right before the intermission of the show. Nielsen made the audience disappear by the wave of his hand and by saying the magical words It's intermission . The evening came to a close after nearly two hours of musical entertainment. The finale included the performance offimenba from West Side Story by the Northwest Singers, Concert and Sophomore Choirs. The vocalists were accompanied by thel Northwest Stage Band for the finale. -Kelli Brown ' TOP LEFT: 'Men Without Shoes' was one instrumen- tal group performaning an original song, TOP MIDDLE: Struttin her stuff, Genia johnson per- forms the Weatherwomen song 'It's Raining Men,' BOTTOM LEFT: Singing in harmony is what the Sophomore Barbershop Quartet is all about, BOTTOM MIDDLE: Politics receive a stab from Sharl Vogt's 'Edith Ann' monologue. CENTER: 'Saturday Night In..' takes on a new mean- ing when performed by this group. ABOVE3 Choercgraphy enhances the finale of the combined choirs in 'America'. Bearlesque ' 97