Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Drama Club Productions: March Madness, “There’s No Business Like Show Business”; Satire, “The Mouse That Roared” Students proved they were as funny on stage as in class during Drama Club ' s productions. The Mouse That Roared and March Madness. Old time vaudeville met revival as the Master of Ceremonies and Company concocted impressions and slapstick routines which tied together the 12 acts. As in past years, singing was the dominant talent. The songs of Donna Urschel ( Anticipation ' ), Paula Morphis ( The Sounds of Silence ), The Group Five ( Up, Up and Away ) and Joe Banana and The Bunch, filtered through the audience. The Mouse That Roared examined United States foreign policy with a satirical view. Duchess Glori- anna (Julie Bibler), Tulley Bascomb (Brad Dibkey), Mr. Benter (Joe Golando) and Count Mountjoy (Keith Wet- more) portrayed befuddled leaders of a tiny duchey that waged war on the United States and won. Local drama productions stole possible playgoers from The Mouse That Roared. However, the play was a personal success for its participants.

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1. Chorus opens Folk Concert with theme song, “Spinning Wheel”. 2. Chris Stombaugh, left, and Robin Ackerman discuss the accompaniment for “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”. 3. Monica Bretscher plays a lively Hungarian song, ‘‘Son of the Pustza”. 4. An amazed Lady Brockhurst, Candy Cropper, reprimands her flirtatious husband, Lord Brockhurst, Garrett Daniels. 5. Karen Maiers. 6. Boyfriend chorus-line per- forms theme song dance routine. 7. Polly Brown, Wendy Reichard, gazes longingly at her heart-throb, Tony Brockhurst, Don Clark. 21

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1. Kerry Whitesell’s monologue is reminiscent of the early 1900 ' s. 2. Ron Tuthill is alias W. C. Fields 3. John Wayne 4. Ed Sullivan. 5. Shelley Broviak and Mary Fulton perform Laugh-In ' s “Tyrone and Gladys ' . 6. U.S. President, Melanie Wellner, confers with General Snippet, Al Frailey, and Prof. Kokintz, Garrett Daniels, about the quadium bomb. 7. Brad Dib- key reprimands the mouse for frightening the tourists. 8. Grand Fenwick ' s bowmen, Brad Dibkey, Bret Peeler and Kelley Moore- head, invade New York City. 9. The court of Grand Fenwick L. to R. Keith Wetmore, Julie Bibler and Joe Golando study the pro’s and con ' s of invading the United States.