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Show With you’’ Lights flash, a train roars, or perhaps a gun speaks. Those and many other effects are required to make a school play production look, sound, and feel alive to the audi- ence. This is where the stagehand makes his debut! But there’s more to being a stagehand than pulling switches to create the desired effects. Scenery must be constructed, erected, and moved. The proper placing of props and the engineering of various elements of stage construction are also neces- sities. Lighting must be changed and directed in just the right spot at the desired time along with the various sound effects. KS Oh, that intoxicated Miss Wellington! “Well Backstage, Harold Oaks, and Carolyn een Howes, “puss cat.” Jean King, Gould Father, here we are again. . .” Col- admire Yes, a stagehand’s job is not easy; truly they are the unseen actors of a drama. And you were thrilled, frightened, worried, or carried away in a thousand other emotional ways because of these “people behind the scenes.” This year Sam Crawford, David Gunnison, Glen Budge and Hal Stephens served as Weber's stagehands. Working hard and with split second accuracy these unsung heroes of the stage skillfuJly applied their talents to make Weber’s drama ble and successful. 128 productions possiAfter the final performance the cast relaxes with the director, Mr. Ralp Dabb; Jones, King, Taylot, Oborn, Henderson, Howes, Thomas, Oaks, Jacobs, and Gould. |