Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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A predominately rookie cast spent late nights rehearsing a play that relied heavily on dialogue but was still worthy of... PRESENTING Ine rront rage t ' s Chicago and the time is the 1930 ' s. The scene is the newsroom. It ' s here we meet Hildy, portrayed by Sophomore Leon May. Hildy wants to break away from the news- paper business and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy ' s hands falls the escapee as hostage. He hides his prize under a rolltop desk and calls his editor Walter, played by Fresh- man Brett Lotz. The three act play, presented on Novemberl and 2, by members of the Drama Club, was an especially difficult play to present, according to Director Terry Nelson. It was a difficult play to pro- duce because the story relied heav- ily on dialogue. There was a lot of memorization and late rehearsals. It was so unusual in that over three-fourths of the cast were new- comers to the stage, Nelson said. The story re- lj . volved around a jailbreak and break- ing of a big story . The come- dy, once made into a popular movie starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, popular- ized poker playing outside of rehearsals and at the cast party since the reporters in the play had to rehearse the game so much. Besides the on stage direction and acting, the set crew, consisting ofbot s and drama club corn- worked hours on weekends transforming the audito- rium stage into the setting of a 1930 ' s Chicago newsroom. The Steve Winslow ushers added to the illusion as they even dressed as newsboys and passed our Front Page programs to high- light the performance. Also instrumental to the show ' s suc- cess were the light and sound crews, consisting of Juniors George Poulsen and Joe Sanders, and Seniors Todd Young and Frank Williams. The sound men handled the task of working out the loopholes in the new $20,000 sound system. Poulsen admitted, We got feed- back from the new equipment and had to work around it all, but it worked out alright in the end. Besides the trou- ble with the sound system, the cast was confronted with another prob- lem: Where were they going to find a rolltop desk big enough to stuff the escaped murderer, played by Senior Steve Winslow? The prop committee members couldn ' t find one, so Nelson simply rewrote part of Act Three to hide the murderer under the desk. Nelson laughed, The results were funnier than how it was originally written. Student directors were Thespi- ans Jennifer Johnson and Dawn Taylor. The tough, macho reporters were fun to portray, stated Senior Kevin Morey, who played Reporter McCue, but it took me forever to get the ' Chicago twang ' . That ' s right, Walter, I quit! fumes Hildy, played by Sophomore Leon May, while reporters Fresh- man Jeff Riggs and Junior Todd Gilbert look on. Brad Holloway 16 FALL PL A Y

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Marriage plans, usually no laughing matter, some- times are in a mock ceremony, as Seniors Mark Grasso, Amy Brown and Rhonda Pearson show. Not just anyone looks good in a mini-skirt ;however, Seniors Pam Fullenwider and her date Jimmy Winkle show off their legs at Sadies. With a doivn-home setting for Sadies pictures is Freshman Penny Townsend and her date Senior Jerrv Williams. Double your pleasure, double your fun as Fresh- men Andrea Heath, Yvonne Morey, and their dates Max VanCleave and Shane Southerland kiss their mutes. SADIES 15

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Ironing out complications with the new sound sys- tem is Senior Todd Young at a technical rehearsal for the fall play. Front Page Cast-Rovi 1: C. Terrell, L. May.B. Lotz, A. Patterson, S. Winslow. Row 2: T. Nelson, D. Taylor, N. Thise, A. ( iarroll. J. Riggs, P. Grimes, J. Collin-. D. Slagle Row 3: M. Sindlinger, S. Monks, C. Mitchell, M. Reno, J. Bright, B. Holloway, D. Lamirand, K. Morey, T. Gil- bert, M. Worley, T. Keihn, G. Peirce, R. Werling, R. Nottingham. L Now Fred, don ' t get excited! instructs Sheriff Mike Worley to Chicago Mayor David Slagle, as he panics over the jailbreak. FALL PLAY 17