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ov 8 CRE TAK GS TP Rw Wo Na 5 Thursday, February 15, 1990 EH 1 A Section A large cast of drama, band and choral students will bring "My Fair Lady" to the stage of B. N. Barnes Auditorium Saturday, Sunday and Monday for three performances that reviewers are saying you don't want to miss. The ambitious production will feature the talents of many Kings Mountain students, many of whom are performing roles in the well-known Broadway musical and others who will be singing and dancing and play- ing in the band. Lead speaking roles in the musical are played by Laura Beth Moss as Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flow- er girl from Lisson Grove working outside the Convent Garden whose potential to become "a lady" becomes the object of a bet between Colonel Pickering, played by Michael Jordan, a retired British officer with colonial experience and Henry -Higgins, played by Joe Champion, a professional bachelor of British upper class and world famous phonetics expert, teacher and author of Higgins Universal Alphabet. The trio also hold the principal vocal parts in the show. Supporting roles and with vocal parts in the musical are Freddy Eynsford Hill, an upperclass young man who become completely smitten with Eliza and played by John Heath; Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's fa- ther, an elderly but vigorous dustman, portrayed by Chris Bridges; Harry, a drinking companion of Alfred Doolittle portrayed by Rusty McAbee; Jamie,a drink- ing companion of Alfred Doolitte, portrayed by Rick Lewis; and Mrs. Pearce, Henry Higgins' housekeeper, portrayed by Ayana Barton. Other key players are Mrs. Eynsford Hill (Michelle Lail), a friend of Mrs. Higgins and Freddy's mother; Mrs. Higgins (Katherine Jenkins), Henry's long-suffer- ing mother; George, the bartender (Jimmy Yarborough),who works the Tottenham Court Road Pub; Prof. Zoltan Karpathy, (Tommy Harrelson), a bearded Hungarian; former phonetics student of Henry Higgins; Ricky Lewis and Cathy Wardlaw as the by- standers. Also: Rusty McAbee Rick Lewis, Travis Wells and Mike Payseur as cockneys who form the male quartet; Chuck Bridges as Henry Higgins butler; Chris Putnam as Higgins footman and Lord Boxington, a friend of Mrs. Higgins; Angela Patterson as a flower girl work- E—— Molly Elizabeth Blanton, Bethware Sth grader, Blanton wrote about inventor Eli Whitney. DAR DISTRICT WINNER-Mrs. Eugene Roberts, Regent of Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter DAR, presents award to District winner in the recent DAR-sponsored history essay contest. ing Wimpole Street; Chris Putnam and Rick Lewis as footmen, Jimmy Yarborough as a Selsey man; Shan Kiser as a Hoxton man; Sherry Moore, Ayana Barton Adrian Hardin, and Lori Cobb as the maids, Rick Lewis Mike Paysour, Roger Hamm, Shan Kiser as the buskers and servants who form singing and dancing ensembles and Roger Hamm and Chuck Bridges as the stewards. Performances eSaturday - 7:30 p.m. . Sunday - 2:30 p.m. eMonday - 7:30 p.m. Tickets: : 4.00 for adults 33.00 for Senior Citizens and Students A singing and dancing ensemble features Elizabeth Wilson, Chris Putnam, Michelle Lail, Shan Kiser, Ametria Brown, Stephanie Myers and Tina Wells. Elizabeth Wilson is Queen of Transyovania, Chris Putnam is the Ambassador. There are other non-speak- ing roles including voices from crowd scenes. "My Fair Lady" features 11 scenes, including the convent garden, the tenement section, Higgins study, outside Ascot, outside Higgins House on Wimple Street, the Tracy Embassy Promenade and the ball- room of the Embassy. Performances are on Saturday and Monday nights at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens. Mrs. Betsy H. Wells is directing the production, as- sisted by choral director Eugene Bumgardner and in» strumental director Dr. Phil Perrin. "My Fair Lady" is adapted from Bernard Shaw's’ "Pygmalion" from the book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. YOU'LL LOVE THE MUSIC-The musical numbers in "My Fair Lady" feature the multi-talented KMHS students in the chorus, under direction of Gene Bumgardner, I , Dr. Phil Perrin, of Gardner Webb College, guest conductor. Lynn Echols is at the piano. Bethware's Molly Blanton ls DAR Essay Contest Winner Molly Blanton, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Blanton of Route 5, wrote about the American inventor Eli Whitney to win the DAR-sponsored history essay contest in the school system and in District 2 of which Colonel Frederick Hambright Chapter is a member. The fifth grader at Bethware School likes history. She is multi- talented, enjoys playing piano and has been active in five recent Kings Mountain Little Theatre pro- ductions including the title role as Annc in "Anne of Green Gables.” She delighted Little Theater-goers as "Brigitta", onc of the Von Trapp Family, in "Sound of Music" and also played in "South Pacific”, "What A Scram” and "Velveteen Rabbit." She isa piano student of as the local and and in the band, under direction of playing a number of talents, tumes have been rented for the show w KMHS Presents 'My Fair Lady’ Photos by Dieter Melhorn REHEARSING LINES-Betsy Wells, director of the upcoming musical," My Fair Lady' at KMSHS, re- hearses lines with the lead characters in the show, Laura Beth Moss, who has the lead female role of Eliza Doolittle, and Joe Champion, who has the lead male role as Henry Higgins. A large cast of drama, choral and band students will bring the delightful musical to the stage of Barnes Auditorium Saturday night and Monday night for 7:30 p.m. performances and on Sunday afternoon at a 2:30 p.m. matinee perfor- mance. LINING UP-Students in this weekend's production of the Broadway musical," My Fair Lady," are dis- Mrs. Linda Dixon and attends First Baptist Church. Her family includes her six-year- old brother, Adam Trott Blanton, a first grader at Bethware, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Trott and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Blanton. - Molly's prize-winning essay fol- lows: "Eli Whitney was a famous American inventor. He was born in 1769 on a farm in Massachusetts. "Eli's father owned a tool shop where Eli often helped his father repair tools. Whitney cnjoyed marking new things like birdhous- cs and doghouscs. "Once Eli took his father's watch apart 10 sce what made it tick. Then, he quickly put the watch back together before his father came home. His father never real- ized what his son had doné. Years later, Eli told his father how he had taken the pocket watch apart. "When Eli was 15 years of age, Whitney made nails. During the time of the Revolutionary War nails were hard to get and many people wanted them. "Eli wasn't able to go to college because his father couldn't afford it. Eli worked hard as a teacher for four long years and saved all of his pay. Once he saved enough money, Eli attended Yale College. "In onc of his classes at Yale, the instrument that the chemistry teacher was using suddenly broke, then Eli asked if he could try to re- pair it instead of having to send it to England. To the teacher's sur- from dancing, above, to singing. More than $2,000 worth of elaborate cos- hich is requiring hours of rehearsals by students. ’ prise, Eli repaired the instrument successfully and then it worked properly. "Eli's invention of the cotton gin was not too popular and did not make him rich until after his death. Whitney's cotton gin could sepa-| rate the cotton form the seed quick- er and much cheaper than doing it by hand. ; "After his invention of the cotton gin, Whitney gave up making cot- ton gins and made guns for the government. As a pastime, he re- paired toys, tools, and things around his home. "After his death, Eli Whitney be- came famous as the inventor of the cotton gin. His invention helped Americans in the South greatly im- prove the cotton industry.”
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