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Show J- nwuuui NEW & DIFFERENT Opera Eleady For Production dates for the Delta high- school opera, "Shreds and Patches", are now set for Delta Thursday, April 29, a matinee and evening performance, and Hinckley, Hinck-ley, Friday, April 30. Tickets will so on sale at Baker Pharmacy and Service Drug. The opera promises entertainment entertain-ment both unique and highly a-musing a-musing for the audience, as the story is told of the tribulations of an opera company, both financial and temperamental. The whole auditorium will be part of the stage, and at any time characters are apt to be coming in the back doors, and through the aisles, as though a rehearsal really were in practice. The music is taken from the famous Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, using well-known and ever-popular ever-popular melodies from the Pirates of Penzance, Pinafore, or the Mik- ado. The setting is that of the Gay Nineties, and costumes are being ordered from Salt Lake City. And ! there are lots of comedy situations. situa-tions. J Evan Christensen is directing the opera, assisted by S. D. Anderson. There will be an orchestra of 15 pieces, and a chorus of 90 voices. Student directors are Joyce Terry and Carmen Rose, accompanist is Laurel Anderson. Production staff includes Zoe Porter, Mary Lou Raw-linson Raw-linson and Kathleen Eckstrom. Cast in principal roles are Neil Heyborne, LeeRay McAllister, Dick Moody, Kenneth Fullmer, Fred Adams, Ad-ams, Lief Alldredge, Eugene' Hol-man, Hol-man, Donna Sheriff, Shirlene Steele and Jeannette Overson. |