The Mail-Journal, Volume 14, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 July 1977 — Page 10

THE MAIL-JOURNAL—Wed., July 13,1977

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Syracuse youths in company

Kenneth W. Strieby, Sue Gans and Mindy Gilliland, all three Syracuse residents, are mem* bers of the Enchanted Hills Playhouse company this summer.

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'Hansel and Gretel' to be offered

Once upon a time, children gathered at the Enchanted Hills Playhouse to be entertained with songs, dancing and favorite fairy tales. On Saturday. July 23, the playhouse will again present a show, especially for the young at Heart — “Hansel and Gretel.” “Hansel and Gretel" is a story of two children who wander too far into the woods and come upon the Gingerbread House of a witch. Gretel is being played by Sue Gans of Syracuse, who has been with the playhouse company for three seasons She usually can be

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Strieby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Strieby of r 2 Syracuse, has the role of musical director for the summer. He spent the past two summers as a member of the pit orchestra playing

seen during each show, not on stage, but playing string bass in the orchestra. Dino ; Lara is portraying Hansel. Dino was seen as the Artful Dodger in the playhouse's first 1977 broduction, "Oliver.” [ The Gingerbread Tfouse Witch is being played |by Mindy Gilliland, also of Syracuse. “Hansel and GretjeT will be presented at two times on July 23, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.)No advance reservations will be taken, the • box office will open one hour before each performance.

MINDY GILLILAND

saxaphone. He will also be seen onstage this year as the giant in “Jack and the Beanstalk." He is a 1974 graduate of Fairfield High School and will be returning to Indiana State University as a senior this fall. Sue Gans, a 1977 graduate of Wawasee High School, is spending her fourth summer playing bass in the playhouse pit orchestra. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gans of r 3 Syracuse. Mindy Gilliland of r 2 Syracuse, also joins the playhouse company this season. She graduated from Libertyville High School in 1975 and will attend Hanover College this fall as a junior. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gilliland, she will serve as playhouse props mistress. Theatre Guild elects officers A meeting of the Enchanted Hills Theatre Guild was held in June with the following officers being elected: President — Kay Franke Vice president — Jane Naugler Secretary — Arlene Berkey Treasurer — Linda Eastman An opening night party was held at the Franke home following presentation of the play- “ Oliver" and was attended by cast, crew and guild members and their guests. Pte guild has contributed half of the cost for a new dishwasher for the playhouse and decorated the float for the Flotilla, under direction of Shirley Krug. The float placed third and the theme used was “Dames at Sea," which is now showing at the playhouse. The next meeting of the theatre guild will be this Thursday at 1 p.m in the home of Billie Ganz. Mongs to appear in play this week Mr. and Mrs. Dick Mong will soon appear in Huntington Theater Guild production of “Pajama Game" at Huntington North High School. The performances will be July 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and July 17 at 2:30. Mrs. Mong, who is Avon’s district manager for Kosciusko and Elkhart counties, will play Mabel, one of the main characters. Her husband will be Max, the salesman. The couple was formerly from Fort Wayne and active in the civic theater and Franke Part Festival Theater there.

Busical-comedy continues successfully

By BILL SPURGEON Our elected representatives in Indianapolis and Washington would find it worth their while to get acquainted with Larry A. Wardlaw. Mr. Wardlaw is director of the current production at the Enchanted Hills Playhouse, and he has demonstrated the rare ability to make something out of nothing, a task congressmen and legislators have been trying for years without a lot of success. Mr. Wardlaw’s victory at the barn theater east of Wawasee is “Dames at Sea," a 1930 s musical comedy with all the substance of an overtoasted marshmallow. He and a talented cast and crew have molded it into a fun-filled evening of entertainment, mixing melody, dancing and color with just the right amount of spicy cam pin ess to make it a success. “Dames at Sea" is the story of Ruby, a girl from Centerville. Utah, who arrives in New York to make a name for herself on the stage. Suzanne Stark is a winsome and winning Ruby, and she performs ably in the role. The plot of “Dames at Sea" finds the WPA demolishing the theater on the opening night of a show, and Ruby’s boyfriend Dick, Jeff Gentry, and his friend Lucky, Thomas Manzi, both come up with the only logical solution: stage the production on the deck of the battleship on which they are serving. The “bad guy” of the production is actress Mona Kent, well-played by Janna Morrison. Miss Morrison, a junior theater major from the University of Michigan, looks right and sounds good and she fits well in being the “opposite” temperament from Miss Stark's Ruby. Filling only slightly less important slots Tn the cast are Debby Shively, pleasant to watch and hear as Joan, the actress who befriends Ruby; Daniel Buchen, equally at home as a stage manager or as a Navy threestriper (the program notes tell us he actually did spend four years in the Navy); and Jerry Zehr, who plays the part of the captain of the embattled battleship to a most enjoyable hilt. “Dames at Sea” would be a disaster taken seriously, which it is not at Enchanted Hills. It would be less than complete without competent tapdancers, and the Enchanted Hills troupe tapdances almost as if it had

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been born and raised in that era of musical numbers. Choreographer Mary K. Perkins is to be complimented, as are all the cast and chorus, for keeping things moving in the dance department. A “well-done" also should be handed set designer Mark Denzlar and technical director Bruce Graham; their first act set of a seedy New York backstage was appropriately done, and the ability of the backstage crew to come up with the deck of a battleship (and not a flimsy one, either) after just a 15-minute intermission for Act II is indeed laudable. Ann Buchen, Karl Kochvar and Mindy Gilliland deserve kudos for the costumes, lighting and props — all authentically done. The small pit orchestra under Ken Strieby’s baton again shows its understanding of musical comedy orchestration, blending well with the voices on stage and neither getting ahead of nor falling behind the players. “Dames at Sea” at Enchanted Hills offers local playgoers an opportunity for a diverting evening of musical fun. It lasts less than two hours and is worth every bit of the admission tariff. Curtain for remaining performances this week is at 8 Wednesday through Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Option tax distributions certified for county The one-half per cent local option tax will add $1,291,935 to government budgets in 1978. Jean Northenor, county auditor, has been notified the various distributions in the county for 1978 have been certified for that amount. The distributions certified for 1978 will total $1,291,935 in the coming year. The distributions certified for 1978 locally are: Tippecanoe Township — $4,913 Turkey Creek Township — $12,935 Van Buren Twnship — $2,912 Leesburg — $2,104 Milford - $8,560 North Webster - $5,100 Syracuse — $49,073 The Lakeland Community School system is to receive $147,408. Area libraries and their respective future receipts are Milford, $3,182; and Syracuse, $5,287.

IHB i I B B 1* | I ! to Kiwirl Bb r'r S* M fl MB® GOING A-CAMPIN* — Early last Wednesday morning a farm wagon, pulled by two horses, was ~ seen going down main street in Milford, with three bearded Amishmen sitting in comfortable chairs in the wagon. The wagon’s cargo: thirty or forty bedrolls. ) The men said they were from the Maple Grove School, about eight miles southwest of Milford on CR 900. and were headed for an overnight camping trip to Bonneville Mills three miles east of Bristol. Then, coming up behind the wagon were a host of girls riding bicycles, all part of the overnight camping expedition. The Amishmen allowed us to photograph their wagon-load of bedrolls, but not with them perched in their comfortable rockers.

.. „ A. . . Lakeland Locals Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shearer of Athens, Ga., are in Milford this week. Shearer is a former pastor of the Christian Church and the couple is visiting many friends in the area while staying with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Beer and children of near Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Enoch of Lake Wawasee have returned from a holiday to Salt Lake City visiting their son and family, Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Peterson and son. s

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