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Annie, an optimistic orphan girl,

convinced the audience that the

oi£hng Ropho more An na Marie Rice !Annie) on £tage. are
H geniorg Matt Gall !Drake) and Anna Ca£hero !Mr£. Pugh!. Rice by Lauren &mghart and Alyson Carstens
Raid that it wag gomewhat awkward being carried by her fellow s '
actor£. 'For once in my hre I wag really talll' photo by Heather Dehrn
('t inging with her newly found friend Sandy, i£ £re£hman Alex
i:) Breedlove !Annie!. Having a dog trot on the £tage wag rare and
£omehme£ difficult when Gu£, the dog owned by Andrew Smith, The time and effort performers had put toward
didn't feel like cooperating and re£ponding to hi£ new name, "Ann1e" showed , considering the fact that two of the
shows were sold out for the f1rst time in four years.
"You could feel the excitement on stage. Open-

ing night, definitely IS a high; there's nothing like it. The
best part is when the audien ce can feel the energy the
actors have, " senior Melanie Benesh said .
ln each musi cal, one could expect different
sacnfices that he or she was forced to make. Actors
had late rehearsals, missed social events, and skipped
homewor k. lt came with the territory, including the
productions on Oct. 25-28.

However, in "Annie" there were also personal
sacrifices act ors encountered . The roles of Annie,
played by freshman Alex Breedlove and sophomore
Anna Marie Rice, revtuired them to dye the1r ha1r a deep
auburn because it was known that Annie had red hair,
and the directors wanted to keep consisten cy t o the
Broadway musical. The same went for the leads of
Oliver Warbu cks, played by seniors Mike Hinckley and
Sam Vasta "My k11ecs were kilockill(l alk11
"The tl cU(lht 111y heal't W~10 (JC,lll~J tc 1eap
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biggest sacrifice clut of 111y chest. 1l1ere W(.re alsc• a
that l made was HlliL•Il l_,utt e1flies i11 111y ~;to11121ci1. I
shaving my beau- wa0 afl'c.-1i.JI' j 111e~;s U~ ~11ille, ell' that
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tiful head , and I woui.J hit a yucky 11ote L1LII'il1~1 011e of
many people IllY 00 I clS. II
didn't want me
) ancing to 'Eagy Street' i£ junior Aly Car£teng IMi££ Hannigan), and genion to. My director ~fre.sllma11 Alex B1·c.e.Jlove
Matt Uehling !Rooster) and Sarah Robin£on !Lily). They celebrated becauge
Mr. (Terry) Petersen said that if l wanted the lead role
~Y ju£t figured a way to earn Rome 'eagy' buck£ by pulling a gcam on W arbuck£.
>to by Heather Dehm of Warbu cks l needed t o be bald . lt was a big but
u;t-Anni..-Alex Br'9<!Cilove G Anna Marie Rice. Kate-Jodi LeVine G Doran Schmidt Pepper necessary change that made my chara cter more
tra Hanson, July-Allyoon Schnmderwmd G Lauren Banghart Duf'fy-f;ara Schweid G Cone
ant- Leanna. Beth-BeCca Goodsell G Suzie Moessner, Suzy:Kaylan Paisley G Amanda real istic," Vasta sa id.
..rorak. MU:s Hannigan-Melanie Benesh G Aly Carstens, Olivar W arbuck&-Sam Vasta G
Ike Hinckley, Roostar Hanniga n-Adam Rowin_l(s G Matt Uehlin)!, Lily-Sarah Robinson.
mdles McC!OGkay-Peter Chang Dog Catcher-JOhn Stutznes&er. Ju:.: l DO.I( Catcher-Ted Through all of the sacnfices and pra ctices the
uni_l(a. Office Ward-Rob Botkin. Grace Fa rr..U-furrie Bahde (.; Rachel ~e, Drake-Matt
JJ. Mrs. Pugh-Anna Cashero, CecilleJ['oru Oe;tmann, Annett..-Mes:an Duell Mrs. Greer-- actors had made, the outcome was well worth it.
ma KolbecK: Household Staff Choru.--Katie Shald. Kimmy Smith. ~elle Murphy. Laura
aack. & Mes:an Glover. Bert Healy-David Brodhead Fred M cCracken-Peter Chan)!, Jimmy
hnson-'I'ed Osuni.l(a. Bonnie BoylB.n-IGrbi long Connie Boylan-&u-ah llily, WEAF Stage "! couldn 't have been more proud of the per-
anan_l(er-Nicole Riedl FDR-Michael Bandemer, Icka.--Peter Jensen. Howe-Scott Sandstrom.
orgenlhau-J ohn Stutznes&er, Hull-Rob Botkin, Parkin.--Rachel McCune & Carrie Bahde, formers. They did a wonderful JOb and all of their hard
phle-'I'ana Abram, Apple-Seller--Jenny Pa<kach. Artie-David Brodhead Mary-Ruth
'Omek. Eddie-Scott Sandstrom, Fred-Peter Jensen. Ira-Michael Bandemer, PeQ'~a
::howicz. Jane-Nicole LeGrow, Hoovarville & NYC Choru.--ICirbi Wn)!, Beth !lQdloff. Mandy work paid off," director Terry Peterson said .
It Aimee Thompson. Brittany LeGrow. Mes:an Graber. Sarah Camp1iell Kaitlyn Fischer,
::ole Riedl Molly Meyerink Sarah ~hly. Mike Hicnkley. Sam Vasta. Matt Uehling 193
iamRowm_l(s. Ryan Durham, '!'aria Abram, Jenny Paskru:ch. Ruth 1-lromek. Sarah
::hoW1CZ. N'icole l£row, A Star to B..-Kirbi wn . Usharett..-Mand 'l'ifft
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