Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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Lisa Smith, Jim Wierenga and David Ulmer amuse the audience with their Sick and Wrong sequel. Now for something completely dif- ferent . ..that ' s how Jennifer Luttrell, special events co-ordinator for 1986-87, described this year ' s variety show. As a major change this year, the show did not use an emcee. Slides were used to introduce the acts and Dirk Rowley served as the hidden announcer. Highlights of the first act were The Big Butt Family by Second Center Olsen, Snap To It by Five Swell Guys plus Two and Beep, Beep by First South English. Act Two included a sequal to last year ' s nauseating Sick and Wrong performance, a rowdy rendition of The Pirate ' s Song by the Wandering Wheels men and a jazzy version of Dead Man ' s Blues by the Brass Ensemble. Kelly Kamentz, Steve Swing, Joel Durkovich, Brian Barton, James Kenniv, Jim W.erenga and Joe Maniglia entertain with Seven ' s a Crowd. Variety Show 27

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Variety Show Boasts Til ' s Finest The Wheels guys, including Galen Classen, Kent Merrick, Brian Carter, Eric Jones, Neil Boss, Zane Huffman and Ted Bowers, do their pirate ' s jig for the audience Robin Sonnevelt belts out her Variety Show song. 26 Vanety Show

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Good Doctor: Good Comedy With the unexpected destruction of Taylor ' s Little Theatre, the immediate future of the theatre program was in question. However, as they say in the business, The show must go on, and indeed it did. Renovation of the former Ayre ' s Alumni Memorial Library into a theatre was completed just in time for its debut show The Good Doctor. ' ' This comedy, written by Anton Chekhov and compiled by Neil Simon, was directed by Dr. Oliver Hubbard and presented on two successive weekends, Nov. 6-9 and Nov. 13-16. Not only was this play unique in being the debut show for the new Little Theatre, but because of the great interest of participating students, it is the only show in recent years to be double— cast. In the play, the Narrator (Joe Maniglia) shared with the audience nine different stories interrelated through their extremes of humor: The Sneeze, The Governness, Surgery, Too Late for Happiness, A Quiet War, The Seduction, The Drowned Man, The Audition, A Defenseless Creature, and The Arrangement. Each of these stories brought with it a comedic insight into human behavior. Right — Cherdyakov (Brian Smith) and his wife (Teresa Nevil) are very excited that General Bras- silhov (Chuck Gray) is sitting in front of them at the theater, while the general ' s wife (Rochelle Manor) is not impressed with the couple ' s loudness in The Sneeze Below — Two retired officers (Stephen Barron and Frank Sharp) find themselves in the midst of their weekly debate in A Quiet War. 28 The Good Doctor