Sammamish High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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f doubtful, came off as an accomplished number, even with one dancer dragging a damaged leg. The child-like romantics between Emile DeBeque and nurse Nellie Forbush, always good for a giggle during rehersal, became more sensitive and less humorous. The stage crew finally learned how to move the sets quietly and keep from being picked up by the microphones. Even the anticipation of parties after every show failed to dampen the produc- tion. Each performance was like opening night, and judging by audience reaction, opening night was excellent. Six weeks ofwhat must have seemed hopeless rehearsals had somehow bound sixty-odd people into a unified organization that transformed an unbearbly corny play into something beauti- ful. It caught, as some people noted, the true feeling of South Pacific. Some of the audience even cried. In charge of the organiZationwasMr. Ron Childers, direc- tor, odd-job doer, and occasional smiler, Mr. Alan Lund and Mrs. Margaret Lieberg, musical directors: Laurie Farber, student director and worrierg Steve Burton, stage manager and janitor: and Diana Sullivan, lighting technician. The actors that these people were in charge of included: Sharon Thompson and Leslie Baker as Nellie Forbushg Bob Julien and Randy Olsen as Emile DeBequeg Jeff Sunde and Mike Bacigalupi as Lt. Cable, Mary Chesterman and Kathy Allen as Bloody Mary: Marc Shulman as Luther Billisg and Randy Ogan as Capt. Brackett.

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Nellie, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you! And I love you too. Honestly I do- Please let me go! Please let me go! Pure, unadulterated corn! Is anybodygoing to believe that a middle-aged French plant- er on an American held island during the Second World War falls in love with an American nurse, only to be turned down after she discovers he was once married to a native girl and had two children? The planter then decides to go off on a hazardous mission, which turns the tide of the war in favor ofthe U.S. and convinces the nurse that nothing really matters except that he loves her and she loves him. Actually, this is all easy to swallow in contrast to the second- ary plotwhich involvesa bland lieutenantwho meets a native girl who takes all of five seconds to fall in love with him, can't speak a word of English, and dances very nicely for him. The lieutenant is killed and the girl is left with her tears. Coupled with lines like: He has got a chance, hasn't he? Of course. There's always a chance, it's easy to come to the conclusion that South Paczfc is a corny play. Yet in a manner which some must have found surprising, the play evolved into something beautiful. On the nights of March 17, 18, 24, and 25, in the cafetorium, the corn dis- solved into warmth, and the vitality of Rodgers and Hammer- stein's South Paclfc suddenly appeared on the stage. The sailors' dance, which took forever to work out and was still

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There is othing Like A Play Lt Cable fleff Sundej talks with Luther Billis fMarc Shulmanj as Stewpot fDoug Hendrix! and Professor fTom Randall! listen. Cast: Nagana .... Jerome ..... Henry .,.. Stewpot ...... Professor ........ Commdr. Harbison. . . Yeoman Quale ,.... Sgt. Johnson ..,.., Seaman O'Brien ..,, McCaffrey ........ Lt. Marshall .,.,., Ensign Manelli ...,. Ensign Walewski. . Ensign McGregor. Ensign Noonan ..... . Ensign Whitmore ..... . Ensign Yaeger ,... . . .Nina Peprarpa . . . . .Jeff Altaras . Yves Palandjian . . .Doug Hendrix . . . .Tom Randall . . . .Don Gibson . . . .Tom Dale . . . , .Don Phipps , . .Don Burdulis .,....JimGay . . .Barbara Fam . . . , .Jan Davis . . . .Julie Todd . . . , .Lynn Olson . . . . . .Linda Hill . . .Marnie Layne Nancy Olszewski Ensign Pitt ...... Ensign MaCrae .... Ensign Murphy .... Liat ,........... Lt. Adamas ....., Native dancers ...,. Committee Chairmen: Tickets ........... Publicity ........ . Make up ..... Props ...... Costumes ..... . . .Vicki Chiloote . . . . . .Diana Stack .Michele Williams . , .Astra Ketchian . . .Steve Reynolds Lynn Cunningham, Cheryle Isaacson, Diana Smith, Tammy Miller . .... . .Kathy Stalter .Marilyn McGuire, Debby Middleton . , . .Cindy Salazar . . .Donna Murphy . .' ..... Chris Coy, Sue Sheldrake