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Randy Buck Has Leading Role In “A Funny Thing"
Madcap Musical Ends
'7O Playhouse Season
By Carolyn Yuziuk
Parkway Playhouse ends its
1970 season with a madcap mu
sical entitled "A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the
Forum," in which the cast has
been flung into a melee of
virgins, heroes, villains, scar
let ladies, slaves,
old lechers, etc., etc. The
Playhouse Company reveals un
plumbed depths when acto r s
seen in previous productions as
sober-minded colonels, elderly
doctors and bewildered
suddenly burst into song and
dance wildly around the stage
The songs are hilarious - but
when combined with the unbe
lievably comic sight of the
hairy male legs under the Ro -
man togas, compounded by
seeing the men bounce and
cavort like ballerinas - they
will keep you simply rolling in
the aisles!
The story of the wily Ro
man slave that is related in "A
Funny Thing" is low comedy,
pure and simple—or, r a t h er,
not very pure, just rowdy—hut
all the same it required of its
authors some of the same kind
of serious scholarship and re
search as a Ph.D. thesis. For
this is authentic stuff fran an
cient Rome, a combination of
farcical situations in no less
than nine plays by Plautus, the
playwright who lived from 254
B.C. t01848.C. and wrote
round a hundred plays that kept
his fellow Romans in stitch es.
Stealing comic ideas from the
plays of Plautus has been a ha
bit of writers for centimes .But
to keep Plautus's daffiness in
its original Roman setting, as
in "A Funny Thing,'provesthe
talent of the authors, Burt
Shevelove and Larry G el b a rt.
Randy Buck opens the show
as Prologus, an actor.. he then
becomes fteudolus, a slave to
Hero. His preceding roles this
season marked him as capably
but nothing would lead you to
suspect the ability he display
in this leading role. He is
agile, he is funny, he is good!
Frank Fuller Jr. appears
again in this production. He
was funny as the deaf old man
in "Straw Hat" but that was
nothing compared to his antics
in this play.
Gloria Shott as Domina(she
played the demented old lady
in "Summer and Smoke") is
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13,1970
Governor Bob Scott To
Visit Yancey Monday
-3y Bob Helmle
Governor Bob Scott is pay
ing Yancey County a non- po
litical visit next Monday and
Tuesday, to review at first
hand the comity's needs and
problems, and to see what pro
gress is being made.
A feature of his visit will
be a public watermelon cut
ting party on the Burnsville
Town Square, starting on Mon
day evening at 7KX) p. m. En
tertainment at this party will
be provided by award-winning
square dance teams and some
other performers who competed
in last week's annual Youth
Jamboree held at East Yancey
High School.
Champion clogging and
smooth dancing teams coached
by Mrs. Raymond Fox and Mrs.
Ralph Robinson will be among
the performers. Miss Linda
Deyton, the newly crowned
"Miss Mayland" will have a
prominent role in the welcome.
A large supply of watermelons
is being provided. In case of
rain, the party will be held in
the East Yancey gym.
The Governor's visit, both
from his standpoint and that of
the county, is a serious one.
He says he wants to meet peo
ple and talk to them about the
development and other needs
of the county. Flans are be
ing made, accordingly, to
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accomplish this purpose, and
. the melon cutting party is be -
ing arranged with this end in
view.
As this issue of The Yancey
Record goes to press, only pre
liminary plans have been com
pleted. The Governor's party
is expected to arrive in Burns
ville at about 5:00 p.m. Fol
lowing supper at the Nu-Wray
Inn, Scott will join the party
on the square.
Tuesday will be spent large
ly in a tour of such things in
the county as the Governor may
be interested in. Tentative
plans call for a visit to the
Courthouse, the new Northwes
tern Bank building, the Park-
Girl Scouts Hold Day Camp
Parents Invited To See Projects
Girl Scouts from Yancey
County and Mitchell Count y
have been holding their Day
Camp on Carlie Rice's farm
since Monday, August 10, with
high spirits and enthusiasm.
The girls assembled that
day in something less than per
fect weather - in fact, warnings
of rising waters and wash e d
out bridges and roads due to
showers over the weekend be
fore had put a damper on many
activities. But the girls re
mained undaunted by hardships.
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
way Playhouse, with its recent
State-financed addition, the
tomato packing plant, the 'Yan
cey Hospital, and the site ac
quired for a new hospital, and
' such of the county's Industrie s
as the Governor may care to see.
Luncheon for the visitors is
to be served on Tuesday at the
Nu-Wray Inn, and sometime
during the afternoon the visit
will end.
Governor Bob Scott has al
ways been popular in Yancey
County, and in elections he
has carried the county decisive
ly. Plans, accordingly, are
made to have this visit as non
partisan as possible.
As one Scout leader remarked,
it was just like survival train -
ing. The number of girls who
turned out for Day Camp that
first soggy day was a tribute
to their training. Day Camp
was cancelled for Tuesday and
resumed on Wednesday.
All parents of the Girl Scouts
are now invited to attend a
parents night at Day Camp to
be shown what their daughters
have been accomplishing dur
ing the week. Parents night
is Thursday, August 13, 1970.