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Show B1 Life Is The Emery County Review, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Swell Emery and Carbon Counties, Utah u Living in the San Rafael Swell Area u SWELL RECIPES Canning Treasures Sharon Jensen shares some of her favorite canning recipes B3 Ben Cox and Jessica Labrum show their Halloween spirit during the Emery High production of Boo! Photos by James L. Davis Boo! Bryson Weaver Students get spooky with play that keeps audience in motion B Casey Wood oo! The exclamation was taken to heart the week of Halloween as Emery High School brought “Boo! Thirteen Scenes from Halloween” to life. Written by Pat Cook and directed by Neal Peacock, close to 40 students in Peacock’s 8th period Theatre III class and a few others began preparations for Boo early in the school year. The parts were assigned and practices were held during Jennie Miller, Colton Judd class for a couple of weeks. When most of the class had final scene taking place on their lines memorized the the front stage of the audiplay was set aside and the torium. Guides would lead class began working on the a couple of groups through play “Man of La Mancha,” the first 12 scenes, and which Emery High will be putting on Nov. 20-22. With when a sufficient number of groups had gathered, the a week before the debut of last scene was preformed. Boo, the class once again picked up the play, perfecting it prior to its debut on Oct. 28. Unlike most plays put on by Emery High, Boo did not simply take place on stage in the auditorium. The attendees found themselves walking through the upper rooms of the auditorium to 12 different scenes, each staged in a different room, Kaitlin Potter and Brett Mecham concluding with the and Fabio O’Donnel Each scene, excluding the last scene, lasted between one and seven minutes. The final scene lasted half an hour, so it took nearly an hour and a half to see the entire production. The play debuted on Oct. 28 to approximately 250 students from Huntington Elementary School. Guides were assigned groups of between 10 and 20 students and ended up taking all 17 groups through the auditorium to each different scene, except for the final scene, which the elementary students did not see. The play then debuted to the general public that night and was preformed the two following nights as well. When all was said and done the scenes were preformed around 65 times, each excluding the final scene, which was preformed around 8 times. The play was a complete success, paying its royalties and set and significantly helping with the set for the upcoming production of “Man of La Mancha.” It also gave the citizens of Emery County a fun and exciting Halloween play unlike anything many had seen before. Heather Madsen and Brantz Woolsey. Tyler Cox and Jacob Davis Natalie Winn, Ariel Halton and Allison Barham. |