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A satire on the traditional
.sentimental musical, "Little
Mary Sunshine" opens this
Friday at Howell Theater. This
play features the typical hero,
heroine, villain, and plot, only
in this play one is meant to
laugh at the idiocy of the old
plots.
This play is also a satire on
the typical depiction of the
white- forest ranger or soldier
as being strong, brave and
intelligent, while depicting the
Indian as stupid or savage.
In this play the hero. Captain
"iiig Jim" Warington, is played
by Dave Landis. Jean Thomsen
plays Little Mary. The support
ing role of Billy Jester is played
by Jim Sudik, and Cindy Wallis
is ' c ist as Nancy Twinkle.
George Hansen plays Chief
Frown Bear.
In this piay, "Big Jim", a
cspmin of the forest rangers, is
,;rs a mission to capture Yellow
F- r.lhtr, the villain in the play.
Yellow Feather is the son of
Chief Brown Bear, who has
adopted Little Mary, and who
later adopts Billy Jester, a
member in the rangers. Chief
Brown Bear and Yellow
Feather are two of the only
three members of the Kadota
Indian tribe surviving.
Little Mary has persuaded
the Kadotas to fight in the
courts over the land of
Colorado, rather than fighting
the government in battle.
Meanwhile, the government
has threatened to throw Little
Mary off her land.
The play naturally ends with
the Kadotas winning the
lawsuit, giving Little Mary her
land, and with a marriage for
almost everyone in the cast.
, This production, directed by,
David Bell, is the first of four
dramas to be presented by the
Nebraska Repertory Theatre
this summer. Performances
begin at 8:00 p.m. at Howell
Theater.
Mellerdrammer
offers fun eve
Opinion by Lucy Lien
lh; villain is a Lincoln
s(,i ) ty lady. The heroine a
lormtT lady of wealth. The
lii-ro. a former rich man from
licdver Crossing.
"Maitsa's Baby Boy" is the
i-u-lienl rammer currently play
at the Gas Light Theatre,
l',:2 S. 9th Street.
The plot of this drammer
civolvos Mrs. McLean, the
hi roine, and Luther Long, the
h -i 'o, Mrs. McLean is played by
lVcky P.rite, and Luther Long
i ; .Payed by Dick Heakin. Both
have lost their money through
Watergate Plumbing stock
they held shares in, and both
try to regain their wealth by
marrying each other. Each
believes the other to be
wealthy, and each also believes
the other to be young.
Consequently, the plot in
volves their efforts to appear
rub jtnd young to the other,
and they even go so far as to
'!:, up their teenage children
a-, toddlers.
'I he plot is crazy, but in a
iii"i!iT'lrammcr( that's the
point, everyone is supposed to
U i loose. In this production,
however, the cast has to work
on this point. Although the cast
of "Baby Boy" is good, they
should relax more, and should
ham it up. The point of a
mellerdrammer is to exagger
ate the emotional scenes, but
except for Lee Schoonover, the
cast doesn't perform melo
dramatically enough. More
interchange with the audience
should be carried on as well.
How.vrr, all in all, the
mellerdrammer is well done,
and well worth seeing. The only
other criticism is minor. During
one of the intermissions, when
the crowd is having a sing-along,
the woman leading the
songs sings too high for the
audience to follow. Lee Schoon
over leading the songs is much
more in tune with the audience.
The play is fun, and the lines
are clever. It is well worth
going to for a few hours of
entertainment.
This production will run until
July 10th, when the next show,
"They Went Thataway",begins.
So go buy a bag of popcorn,
sit down with a beer, and enjoy
the mellerdrammer. It's a good
diversion from studying.
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The Blucgrass Crusade performed for Ail-StHers Jane 16.
Engineering society
chooses NU dean:
Ur. G!orgp P. Hanna, Jr.,
' .'i! of the University of
N bra-.ka College of Cnginccr
i')g arid Technology, has been
i-lecU'd North Central Region
vice chairman of the Pro
iVsiorial Engineers in Educa
tion, fractice division of the
'.'00?) nit-mbt-r National So
riety ;f Professional Engineers.
Active in educational and
environmental committees &t
the Professional Engineers of
Nebraska, Hanna holds a Ph.D.
degree from the University of
Cincinnati, a masters in civil
engine-ring from New York
University and a bachelors In
civil engineering from Illinois
Institute of Technology.
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Hamming it up for "Little Mary Sunshine" are Dave Landis and Jean Thomsen.
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summer nebraskan
tuesday, June 25, 1974