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Sixty-nine Performers Prepare For “King and I
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In this year’s all-school
musical, hundreds of people can
expect to see singers acting,
actors dancing, dancers singing,
singers dancing, dancers acting,
actors singing, and as usual, the
techies will tech. The per
formance is Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s “the King and I”
which will be presented March 8.
Academic Work
Reflected In
Applications
From the number and nature of
applications being fowarded
from the office of Mrs. Gerd
Young, Assistant Academic Dean
of the NCSA High School, one
may assume that a majority of
the high school students here feel
they are receiving the academic
background necessary for their
admission to some of tte nation’s
top colleges and universities,
regardless of whether or not their
main interest will continue to fall
in the arts.
For the size of the student body,
the school has a very high per
centage each year of National
Merit Finalists, and these
students and their classmates
have afready shown interest in
some forty institutions across the
nation.
Five seniors have applied to
YtJe University and other in
stitutions amorg those to which
the siudents are making ap
plication are: Sanford, Prin
ceton, Smith, Radcliff, Hunter,
Barnard, Sarah Lawrence,
Swarthmore, UNC-Chapel Hill,
Minnesota, Indiana, Michigan
State, Florida State, George
Washington University, Boston
University, Northwestern,
Temple, Pittsburgh, Carnegie
Mellon, University of California
at San Diego, and Catholic
University.
Among the professional schools
to which application has been
made are: Juilliard, Cleveland
Institute, Eastman School,
Oberlin, New England Con
servatory, Curtis, Peabody,
Ringling School of Arts, Parsons
School of Design, and Rhode
Island School of Design,
Many of the students who apply
to academic universities will be
continuing their major study in
the arts.
9, and 11 at Reynolds High School
Auditorium.
Principal roles are held by
students from drama, music, and
dance. A total of about 150
students will participate, in
cluding the orchestra and tihe
technical crew. Of the 69 cast
members, 27 are from the dance
department, 23 are drama
majors, 9 are musicians, and the
remainder are children from
Winston-Salem.
The production is directed by
William Dreyer, with
choreogra{Ay by Nelle Fisher.
The orchestra be conducted
by Norman Johnson of Denver,
Colorado, who is the conductor
for the annual spring opera. Hie
sets and lights are guest designed
by Jack Dioepp of New York. The
stage manager is Chuck Henry.
*nie costumes, rented from
Brooks-Van Horn, include some
of the costumes and masks from
the original production.
Miss Fisher is teaching the
dancers special details of Thai
dancing, such as hand, foot, and
arm positions.
The 15,000 dollar budget will be
primarily offset by the receipts
from ticket sales, and two special
performances for the childrens
theater board.
The ticket sales will be handled
by a group of volunteers, many of
them faculty wives.
The crew includes a special
assistant stage manager to take
care of the ct^dren who go down
to age four.
In a switch that would startle
the ghost of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Simon Legree in the Uncle
Tom’s Cabin scene will be played
alternately by two black
students.
-Robin Dreyer
Ernsberger Wins Award
In the portrayal of Ben Hub
bard in Heilman’s “Little
Foxes,” Duke Ernsberger of the
NCSA cast was chosen the most
promising student actor at the
Columbus Festival (See story
page 3).
The $500 scholarship which
Ernsberger will receive is
presented by the Irene Ryan
Foundation, funded by the ac
tress who is best known for the
role of Granny in television’s
“Beverly Hillbillies.” The
foundation also awards two $2000
sdiolarships to students chosen
from the field of regional win-
no's.
Ernsberger, a resident of
Charlotte and a member of the
N.C. ESSAY staff, will par
ticipate later this year in the
national auditions for the larger
sdiolarships.
Notice to all students and faculty
regarding tickets for “The King
and 1”
There will be a block of seats
available to the school com
munity for “The King and I” on
Wednesday and Thursday,
March 8 and 9. If you wish to have
one of these seats, you will have
to sign up before March 1 In
Room 308- Mr. Simonel’s office. -
•The Attractions Bureau
★★★
G)mposers’
Concert
On Saturday, February 19th at
8:15 p.m. in the N.C.S.A.
auditorium, three of the school’s
student composers will present
some of their music; Daniel
Foley’s, Triptych and his
Chamber Concerto will be con
ducted by Mark Popkin; John
McCoy will conduct his Little
Suite for solo bass trombone,
played by Richard Buckley, and
chamber orchestra; Patrick
Byer will conduct his Requiem.
Included in the all-orchestral
program will be Mendelssohn’s
Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s
Cave) conducted by Richard
Buckley.
Guest
Instructors
Join Dancers
For the remainder of the
second term and during the third
term, six guest dance instructors
and choreographers will join the
faculty of the NCSA Dance
Department. Their fields range
from dance and choreography to
music.
The six are as follows:
Richard Gain - modem in
structor (January 17-February
18)
Dick Kuch - modem instructor
(Feb. 6-18, April 2 - June 2)
Matteo - ethnic teacher who is
considered an authority on the
folklore of dances from exotic
lands; he will teach East Indian
and Spanish dancing, as well as
interracial (ethnic forms)
dancing.
Richard Gibson
choreographer (Feb. 21 - March
1)
Julie Nunlist - a pianist who
will teach music from a dancer’s
viewpoint.
Richard Gain, Jo Emery and
Richard Gibson have one dance
work each proposed for the
Spring “Evening of Dance”
program, April 14,15,21, and 22.
Also slated on the program is
Duncan Noble’s “Waltz ^vere.”
Richard Gain is presently
preparing a modem piece en
titled “I Never Saw A But
terfly.” Jo Emery will prepare
ano&er modem piece entiQed
“Kolors” and Richard Gibson’s
ballet is Variations on a
“Rococo” theme.
Drama Plans
Announced For
Summer Abroad
“This Royal throne of Kings
This sceptred isle,...
This blessed plot.
This earth
This realm
This England.”
Mr. Shakespeare has ex
pressed what perhaps is in the
heart of most drama students.
Where else can one better leam
the art of theatre than in the
country that gave us the grand
bard?
This summer the Drama
Department has planned their
third summer session ai drama in
England under the direction of
Rose E. Bruford at StockweU
College in Kent. Miss Bruford is
Ae founder and principal for
seventeen years of the Rose
Bruford College of Speech and
Drama. She was originally
trained under Elsie Fogertz and
has been a lecturer at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art and
the Director of Drama at the
Royal Academy of Music.
In July and August, NCSA
students will undergo extensive
classes in Acting, Mime, Verse
Speaking, Period Movement and
Stage Fighting. There is a
possibility that the session may
have visits from Paul Scofield,
Sir John Guielgud, Sir Bernard
Miles (?), Dame Sybil Thorndike
and Esme Church. There are
guest lectures planned as well as
theatre tickets to Qie National
Theatre, Royal Shakespeare
Company, and other theatre
companies. Trips to museums,
monuments, backstage at
theatres, B.B.C. offices are also
sdieduled.
Mr. Pollock, Dean of Drama,
commented, “The previous two
years have been extremely
rewarding for the students, not
only in the advancement of their
work, but in helping them to
mature and to gain the ex
perience of traveling abroad.
“Miss Bruford, who directs the
course and lectures to the
students, believes that complete
dedication is necessary and urges
me to impress |ipon the students
that they are not in England for a
vacation.”
Students who would like ad
ditional information on the
session may contact Leslie Hunt
in ttie Drama Department Office.