Sabetha High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Sabetha, KS)

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and wig as Charley's Aunt from Brazil (where the nuts come from. ) Don Cleavinger managed to make Babbs not only masculine, but also af- fected: Babbs became silly and extremely extro- verted. The two girls--Jack's and Charley's friends--Kitty Verdun (Debbie Shargas) and Amy Spettigue (Ann Marcel Montgomery) had problems similar to those facing the actors playing Jack and Charley: mainly that of being different from each other. Ann adopted a simple, sweet sincerity, whereas Debbie made Kitty a rather intense girl with a definitely waspish sense of humor. Each of the other actors--Larry Bums as Brassett, Diana Schmitt as Donna Lucia, Vaughn Minton as Spettigue, Sondra McClain as Ela, and Jeff Tennal as Sir Francis Chesney--managed to make some- thing more of each role than the script provided. Sets for the play were stylized and skeletal, more for convenience in shifting than for aesthetic reasons. Bright colors were used to emphasize the gaiety of the play, and an effort was made-- chiefly through use of open spaces--to create and airy atmosphere. A stage crew headed by Ed Key and Rixey Wertenberger drove nearly five pounds of nails and splattered several gallons of paint over assorted flats and structures. Bob Flentie's properties crew rummaged in attics and grandmothers' houses for appropriate prop- erties, while Maggie Priest's costumes crew (and some of their mothers) tossed threaded needles about at an alarming speed to come up with authentic 1892 costumes. Other crews were headed by Wilma Menold, Pat Christine, Sarah Jones, and Tom Evans. Although the cast did not completely master the sense of pace needed or a completely sure comedy touch, the individual acting in many cases reached high levels, and the play was carried off in a professional--if somewhat muted--fashion. 26

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