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Show : r . .. . . . i . :l . J;.;,;-'"::4-r5l! .1 " j.Hr .f.'S5t; ,iihiiftirtiiillftiiiir liMLiUl "LI'L ABNER". Final touches are being put on the annual high school operetta production for the year, as cast prepares for the presentation next Wednesday, Wednes-day, March 5 in the high school auditorium. Curtain time is 8 p. m.. Shown above are Daisy Mae and Lil' Abner, played by Lorraine Rowley and Richard Adams. Cooperating in the production are the music, speech and dance departments of the Parowan High School, under the direction of Robert Potter, Mrs. Lollin Orton and Mrs. Gary Bentley with Mr. Greg Langley, studentteacher as director. Broadway show lil' Abner comes to Parowan next week The famed Broadway musical, musi-cal, "Lil Abner", is being presented pre-sented at 8 p. m. next Wednesday Wed-nesday by the students of the Parowan High School, in the new auditorium, it is announced announc-ed by Mr. Robert Potter of the music department, Al Capp's I famous cartoon characters will come to life on a stage setting of Dog Patch. The musical mu-sical will be presented free of charge and the public is cordially cor-dially invited to attend. Mr. Greg Langley, a drama student-teacher, is director of the hilarious show, and he is assisted by Mrs. Lollin Orton, Mrs. Gary Bentley, Mr. Potter and Mrs. David Dalton. Mr. Langley's stage-craft class has built the realistic set complete with props, and his make-up class will provide the cast with make-up for the performance. perform-ance. The lively plot concerns the course of true love as depicted depict-ed by Daisy Mae and Li'l Abner, Ab-ner, with Earthquake McGoon, "the Worl's dirtiest wrestler" trying to get her for himself. The U. S. Government plans to bomb Dogpatch as the most onnesessary town" until Mammy's Mam-my's "Yokum Berry Tonic" offers of-fers great possibilities as a fantastic cure-all. The plot is complicated by the world's richest man, the seKish General Gen-eral Bull Moose, who is determined deter-mined to get his hands on the profitable tonic and uses every ev-ery means available, including includ-ing Appassionata Von Climax, his "confidential secretary", and Evil Eye Fleagle with his secret weapon, the deadly Whammy. The cast includes a large group of principals, given in these columns recently, along with cronies, wives, husbands and dancers with the total cast taking in a large percentage percent-age of the high school student body. |
