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Home My WebLink AboutX2023-010-002PICKERING HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PRODUCTION \l�lir'1� Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Witmork, New York City, N.Y. Book by E. Y. HARBURG and FRED SAIDY Lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG Music by BURTON LANE ONTARIO COUNTY'S MOST PROGRESSIVE G.M. DEALER PONTIAC AASEN PONTIAC BUICK LTD. 17 Kingston Rood West Telephone 942-5660 839-121 1 PICKERING, ONTARIO welcome TO PICKERING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' PRODUCTION f;,�s 4 OF iiiiiati J r4ilLw Produced and Directed By: Musical Direction By Assisted By Choreography By: Assisted By 11jr. A. ), /--) t L Mri. V. `JtAivan Mr. A Clad Tflij3 J. oickliny-4 wiJJ Z. Paterjoii Mr. M. ! qa Mr. ,2). U(/iA0" PRODUCTION STAFF Stage Managers _. _ MR. B.HANSON Assistant MR. P. WHITE Set Designers MISS N. GILHOOLY, MR. G. BARANCHUK Set Construction Supervisors MR. B. HANSON, MR. P. WHITE Lighting & Special Effects Technician _ MR. R. PEARCE Wardrobe Mistress _ .. MRS. P. McDOWELL Properties MISS D. HOBBS, MRS. C. MARCUS Make Up ...... _ _ __ MR. H. CORRIN Business Manager & Ticket Sales _... _ MR. G. McKAY Assistant MR. R. McKENZIE Publicity & Promotion Director _ MR. G. McKAY Advertising Production Manager _ MISS N. GILHOOLY Programmes MR. C. J. KOTCHAPAW THE LEADS CATHIE ROLLANDS AS SHARON McLONERGAN DAVE GREEN AS FINIAN McLONERGAN ARMAND CONANT AS OG, THE LEPRECAUN RANDY HUNT AS WOODY MAHONEY JAN WILLIAMSON AS SUSAN "THE SILENT" - and - DEBBIE FISHER (Understudy) - FRIDAY PERFORMANCE - OUR THANKS TO: LIGHTING CREW —Bill Horseman, Taylor Morey, Cornelius Holtz. STAGE CREW —David Day, Paul Pettijean, Robert Rogoski, Edgar Bath, Don Turcott, Jim Findlay, John Podlipski, Wayne Roszell, Ray Smith, Peter Hilge, Mark Guest. COSTUME ASSISTANTS—Jo-anne Hawker, Carol Bell, Susan Warder, Chris Shaw, Wilma Donkers. MAKE-UP TEAM —Paul Bowlby, Karen Blake, Carol Fox, Judy Forsythe, Susan Britton, Sharon Coburn, Janet Tilston. STUDENTS' COUNCIL —For financing the production and aiding greatly in the promotion and sale of tickets. MR. LUDWIG, MR. WELBOURN & ASSISTANTS in construction of stage props ADVERTISERS who made this souvenir programme possible. COMPLIMENTS OF Boyes Drugs Ltd. R.S. Greene, Phm. B. _ J Pickering, Phone =- Ontario 942-5961 COMPLIMENTS OF Madill & Fossey CUSTOM BUTCHERS Specializing in 68 Kingston Rd., Home Freezer Meats Pickering COMPLIMENTS OF MOODIE'S MOTOR INN DINING LOUNGE & LOUNGE FULLY LICENSED Exit 65 MacDonald - Cartier Freeway 77 On No. 2 Hwy., Pickering, Ontario COMPLIMENTS OF DISNEY MOTORS LTD. Chrysler, Plymouth, Va I iant & Fargo SALES & SERVICE CHRYSLER CORPORATION Pickering 942-5540 THE CAST (In Order of Appearance) Buzz Collins, The Senator's "Yes Man" _ _ _ _ Bill Palm The Sheriff _ _ _ . _ _. __. P. White 1st Sharecropper _ _ _ _ _ Greg Gammon 2nd Sharecropper _ _ _. Allan Conant 3rd Sharecropper _ _._ _ _ _ _. Ron Anderson Susan Mahoney, a deaf mute _ _ _ _ _ Jan Williamson Debbie Fisher Maude, a tobacco picker _ _ Carole Potentier Dolores, a tobacco picker Dianne Potter Arlene, a tobacco picker ... Sharon Davis Sharecroppers' Children: Henry, Susan's dance interpreter _ __ _ _ Colin Walker Honey Lou ... .. _ _ _. _ _ _ _ _ _ Anne Arsenault Diana _ _ _ _ .. ... _ ..... _ _ Patti Barchard Jane .. ......... ____. _ _ _ _ Ruth Hoskins Finian McLonergan _. _ .. ... Dave Green Sharon McLonergan _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Cathy Rowlands Jan Umphrey Woody Mahoney, Susan's brother _ . _ Randy Hunt Og, a Leprechaun _ ...................................... Armand Conant Howard, a negro college student ................ _ .... Grant Bowlby Senator Billboard Rawkins, of Missitucky .................. Dunstan Morey First Geologist _I ..................................................... Greg. Gammon Second Geologist ...................... ....................... Evert Meiljerink The Preacher _............... _..._ P. White Mr. Robust, a partner of "Shears & Robust Ltd." _. Ron Anderson Mr. Shears, the other partner .... ................ .. Fred Schram 1st Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer ........ ....... _.. _. _ Grant Bowlby 2nd Passion Gospeleer ... ...................... Greg. McKechnie 3rd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer ...... .............. __ _ _.. Fred Schram Deputy _ _ _ _ _ ............ _ .. ... Ken Pratt SINGERS AND DANCERS Ron Anderson, Anne Arsenault, Patti Barchard, Grant Bowlby, Geoffrey Brock, Allan Conant, Sharon Davis, Debbie Fisher, Greg. Gammon, Deb Graham, Ruth Hoskins, Eric Hughes, Hilary Lawson, Cathy McKay, Evert Meijerink, John Moss, Carole Potentier, Kathy Pegg, Dianne Potter, Kathy Robinson, Jan Umphrey, Colin Walker, Jan Williamson, P. White. synopsis of scenes and musical numbers SCENES ACT ONE Scene 1. The meetin' place, Rainbow Valley, Missitucky, U.S.A. Scene 2. The same. That night. Scene 3. The colonial estate of Senator Billboard Rawkins. The next morning. Scene 4. The meetin' place. Following day. Scene 5. A path in the woods. Scene 6. The meetin' place. Next morning. ACT TWO Scene 1. Rainbow Valley. A few weeks later Scene 2. A wooded section of the hills. Scene 3. The meetin' place. Scene 4. Just before dawn. MUSICAL NUMBERS This time of the Year ..................... Susan and Ensemble How are Things in Glocca Morra ................ _....___.__. Sharon Look to the Rainbow ......................... Sharon and Ensemble That Old Devil Moon .......................... Woody and Sharon Something Sort of Grandish ................. Sharon and Og Dance: If This Isn't Love ....... _. Susan and Dancing Ensemble Reprise: Something Sort of Grandish _.._ Og Necessity ____......._... Maude, Dolores, Arlene and Girls That Great Come -and -Get -it Day Woody, Sharon, Preacher and Singing and Dancing Ensemble ACT TWO When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich Susan, Children, Sharon and Singing and Dancing Ensembles Reprise: "Old Devil Moon" ___._ Sharon and Woody Ballet of the Golden Crock Susan accompanied by Sonny The Begat Senator Rawkins, 131, 2nd and 3rd Gospeleer Reprise: ''Look to the Rainbow _._....... Sharon, Woody and Singing Ensemble When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love __... Og and Susan Reprise: "It This Isn't Love" Sharon, Woody, Finian, Children, Singing and Dancing Ensembles Finale Entire Company THE STORY OF "FINIAN'S RAINBOW" Everyone in the world knows that all Americans are million- aires. But only Finian McLonergan, of Glocca-Morra, Ireland, knows why. By a process of mathematics, logic and moonbeams, he has found the answer: it is the soil of Fort Knox that makes this so. There's something magical about that soil. It gives to gold phenomenal qualities hitherto unsuspected even by the gold itself. Thus equipped with powers verging on the atomic, the gold in Fort Knox performs a wondrous work. It radiates a powerful influence throughout America, fertilizing the oranges in Florida, activating the assembly lines in Detroit, and pro- ducing a bumper crop of millionaires. If this reasoning is false, then why did they rush to dig gold out of the ground in California in 1849, only to bury it in the ground of Fort Knox a century later? This is the McLonergan Theory, and the exciting corollary is all to plain: any man can bury a bit of gold in the ground, near Fort Knox, and become a millionaire. Finian knows his economics, but he also knows his lovely and spirited daughter, Sharon. He'll never get her to America to try out his theory if he tells her the truth. So he invents a mythical case of arthritis for himself, and fills her full of pity with a story that the only climate to cure it is found in Rainbow Valley, in the State of Missitucky, U.S.A. near Fort Knox. Getting the gold to launch his project is for Finian, less a problem. Some of his best acquaintances are gnomes and elves, and the leprechauns whose crock of gold provides the power to make wishes for the mortals of Ireland. So he ''bor- rows" the little fellows' crock. Finian gets to Rainbow Valley with Sharon and plants the crock. The leprechaun comes in pursuit, uttering dire warn- ings of misery and destruction. Wishes are made on the crock (it's good for only three wishes in the hands of a mortal) and history veers crazily from its path. The news gets out that gold has been discovered on McLonergan's property. Credit and calico gowns and tractors pour in upon the people of the Valley. Finian's theory comes true. Sharon is about to get that rainbow her father has always promised her — a boy for her heart and pennies for her purse — when the leprechaun's doleful predictions materialize. Not for good, of course, but long enough to make you wonder what next? And if you don't believe in leprechauns — well, considering the state of the world, it must just be that leprechauns find it hard to believe in people. IN REHEARSAL FOR THE SHOW Finian McLonergan and his daughter Sharon discover the magic of Rainbow Valley. "If This Isn't Love'; muses Og after experiencing a human trans- formation at the hands of Sharon McLonergan. ORCHESTRA: Organ Percussion .....I ............. Vibraphone............... ........................... Piano_........................................... Conductor Susan "the Silent". Her tongue is tied until opened by the magic of a pot of gold. Senator Rawkins is determined to go to any extremes to keep the dam from being built in Rainbow Valley. Mrs. Eileen Bath ...... Vic. Oakley Charlotte Sullivan ................... Florence Giddings Linda Paterson Mrs. Virginia Sullivan COMPLIMENTS OF BIG PAUL'S SPORTING GOODS LTD. Station Road PICKERING ONTARIO COMPLIMENTS OF R. KERTON PRINTING LTD. AJAX, ONTARIO 942 - 4541 COMPLIMENTS OF RICHARDSON'S I.G.A. FOOD MARKET LIMITED PICKERING, ONTARIO ARE Main Street PICKERING 942-191 IN REHEARSAL FOR THE SHOW The sharecroppers of Rainbow Valley when "The Great Come and Get It Day" arrives. Finian and the Leprechaun share their feelings about Glocca Morra. THANK YOU We (the performers) are bound to receive most of the credit if our show is a success, but we humbly confess that we hardly deserve it. The audience seldom realizes the countless hours of work involv- ing the men and women behind the scenes. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude to Mr. Cafik, our director, who toiled strenuously with the leads and chorus; to Malcolm Gale, our choreographer, who tried desperately to teach us to dance; and to Mrs. Sullivan and Mr. Clark, who con- ducted and arranged all the musical numbers. This was accomplished after coping many nights and days with a rowdy chorus and tempera- mental leads. We also thank their helpers —Miss Giddings, Miss Paterson, and Mr. Wilson, and the host of others, mentioned else- where in the program, without whose help the show would never have been possible. Oh yes, and the most important thank you of all goes to you, our audience who made the whole thing worthwhile. —Dunstan Morey, on behalf of the Cast. About the only thing you wont find at GALLOWAY'S VARIETY STORE is little Jack Horner (HES HOODAYING IN ARGENTINA) oR WA-S IT OSH RW R GALLOWAY'S VARIETY STORE MAIN STREET PICKERING HUNTER'S � Pickering's Largest Variety Store Kingston Rd. 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