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Supports Add Their Style

A it was so much fun ." Sophomore Jason
said, "I was happy just to have a part;
Emry said, "Minor roles gave people
Iter watching "The Wiz", much
of the audience returned home talking
about the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the who were active in many activities a
chance to be in the play also."
Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy. The leads Other students found that minor
spent hours perfecting their parts and parts were a great place to gain theat-
memorizing lines. As important as the rical experience. Freshman Stephanie
leads were, the minor characters and Shafer said, "I enjoyed being on stage,
crew also led to developing the total learning, developing responsibility, and
effect that appeared on stage. having fun."
Minor roles are often the most diffi- Makeup and set crew gave the
cult to play. Director Terry Peterson, finishing touches to the stage perform-
said, "I've always thought that it took ance of the musical. Work began in the
more for a minor role to be a success summer to build the set designed by
on stage because less is defined in the Senior Jennifer Peterson. Makeup crew
script ... (they) must create their char- attended three two hour sessions to
acter and have less time afforded from perfect their art.
their directors." Each person on crew and cast was
Much of the time audiences a piece that created the total picture
walked away from performances not that won the audience's attention and
aware of the minor characters and the admiration. _/
work that they put in. Why then did the
students do it? Freshman Tris Jacob

Ferocious or not, lions always get people's at-
tention. Junior Jay Mulkey (silver cast) stars in his
first production here. Senior Chris Pelletier plays
the blue cast part. (A. Davis)

Senior Jennifer Peterson, Dorothy, consoles Ju-
nior Jay Mulkey, the cowardly lion ; providing
hope of better days. Both are members of the Sil-
ver cast, Blue cast members were Senior Chris
Pelletier and Freshman Gina Mategrano. (A. Da-
vis)

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