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NEWS! 2004
- DIRECTORS:
- Producer: Myrlene Kennedy
- Drama Director: Kathy Powdrell
- Vocal Music: Jane Ann Quevedo
- Choreographer: Kara Baker
- Accompanist: Cliette Hodges
- Instrumental Music: Julio Sanchez
- Tommy Tune Awards: BEST CHOREOGRAPHY 13 Nominations
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- February 20, 21,
27, 28, 2004
- 7:00 pm
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- February 29
- Sunday Matinee
- 2:30 pm
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- Friendswood High
School Auditorium
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- Tickets: $7
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SYNOPSIS: A Zany
Salute to College Football in the Roaring 20's! (Complete story .. click HERE.)
In the 1920s, colleges were reminiscent of
country clubs, as is the case at the story's fictional setting,
Tait College. Football reigns king on the Tait campus and Tait's
collegians have a hot time keeping up with their star football
player, Tom Marlowe. Most will drop everything to watch him practice,
to do something to earn his favor, or follow the latest chapter
in his soap-opera romance with the daughter of one of the school's
wealthiest benefactors. Only one girl seems oblivious to the
folderol - Connie Lane, an intensely studious woman. Ironically,
Connie is recruited to help when Marlowe fails the astronomy
final he needs pass to in order to play in the big game Saturday.
The story develops when the football star and the tutor fall
for each other, and the football coach and the astronomy professor
rekindle their own college romance. Inevitably, these couples'
love can only survive if the team wins the big game. Click HERE for the complete story.
"Good News!" premiered on Broadway
in 1927, the same year as Show Boat, helping to mark the rebirth
of the musical comedy which had fallen out of fashion thanks
to the popularity of the musical revues that were the rage in
the '20s. Written by the team of B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray
Henderson, and Frank Mandel, the show immediately became one
of the musical theatre successes of that decade, in large part
because of its hit songs including "Button Up Your Overcoat,"
"The Varsity Drag," "The Best Things in Life Are
Free," "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries" and "You're
the Cream in My Coffee."
The musical was adapted twice for film, first in 1930 and then
again in the more successful MGM version of 1947 that starred
June Allyson and Peter Lawford. In 1974, following a year of
preview performances on the road where the show was rewritten
almost every night, producers took one more shot at bringing
Good News! back to New York. The popular, revised
version of "Good News!" was written in 1993 by Mark
Madama and Wayne Bryan for the Musical Theatre of Wichita.
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| FHS Awards: |
| 2003 |
| 2004
Best Choreography |
| 2005
Best Choreography |
| 2006
Best Musical, Best Supporting Actress,
Best Scenic Design |
| 2007 |
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- BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
- Tommy Tune Awards
- 13 Nominations
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- LEADS
(in order of appearance)
- Tom Marlowe - Sam Robinson
Connie Lane - Jennifer Richards
Babe O'Day - Alison Hunter
Bobby Randall - Paul Stuart
Professor Charlotte Kenyon - Ryan Mora
Coach Bill Johnson - Isaac Bourgeois
Pat Bingham - Alyson Currey
Pooch Kearney - Mitchell Blanchard
Millie - Lauren Kyle
Windy - Eric Van Hal
Flo - Molly Black
Slats - Cale Borne
Beef - Matt McGinley
Carda - Shelley Rudy
Lucy - Erin Scott
Sylvester - David Harris
Ticket Taker - Jason Barringer
Lefty - Matt Koncaba
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- SONG LIST:
- ACT I:
- Students Are We - Students
Good News - Cheerleaders, Students & Adults
He's a Ladies' Man - Flo, Millie & Girls
The Football Drill - Guys
Button Up Your Overcoat - Bobby & Babe
- Sour Apples - Students
Together/My Lucky Star (Part 1) - Kenyon & Connie
- Together/My Lucky Star (Part 2) - Coach,
Kenyon & Connie
- On the Campus - Students
- The Best Things In Life Are Free - Tom &
Connie
You're The Cream In My Coffee - Coach & Kenyon
The Varsity Drag - Babe & Students
- Lucky In Love - Tom, Connie, Pat, Babe, Bobby
& Students
- ACT II:
- Today's the Day - Pat & Girls
- The Girl of Pi Beta Phi - Pat & Girls
- Never Swat a Fly - Bobby & Babe
Tait Song - Cheerleaders & Students
Just Imagine - Connie
- Keep Your Sunny Side Up - Tom, Pooch &
Football Team
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries - Kenyon,
Connie & Babe
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- TAIT COLLEGE STUDENT BODY
| Balkum, Laurianne |
Keeble, Lauren |
| Barras, Jennifer |
Klumpyan, Michelle |
| Barringer, Jason |
Koncaba, Matt |
| Black, Molly |
Krause, Caroline |
| Bevan, Daniel |
Kyle, Lauren |
| Blanchard, Mitchell |
Limmer, Melissa |
| Blumentritt, Carla |
Mann, Catherine |
| Bond, PamEla |
McConnell, Hunter |
| Borne, Cale |
McGinley, Matt |
| Bossert, Michelle |
Mintz, Rachel |
| Bourgeois, Isaac |
Mora, Ryan |
| Bourgeois, Peter |
Mulder, Stephen |
| Branscome, Whitney |
Mullins, Blake |
| Brown, Caleb |
Nesrsta, Laura |
| Bruchmiller, Ellen |
Ogden, Justin |
| Bueche, Michelle |
O'Neill, Rhys |
| Conner, James |
Ott, Catherine |
| Currey, Alyson |
Otto, Eric |
| Currie, Logan |
Parker, Kassie |
| Davidson, Katie |
Pendley, Eryn |
| Dinjar, Robert |
Regian, Devon |
| Disiere, Brittany |
Richards, Jennifer |
| Dowden, Courtney |
Robinson, Sam |
| Feith, Andy |
Rudy, Shelley |
| Fields, Whitney |
Scott, Erin |
| Forsythe, Lacie |
Sheets, Nathan |
| Goldsmith, Baker |
Smith, Whitney |
| Hall, Jeremy |
Stuart, Paul |
| Harris, David |
Taylor, Trudy |
| Hickey, Amy |
Thompson, Kelley |
| Hughes, Jill |
Tiemann, James |
| Hunt, Andrew |
Tiemann, Jayme |
| Hunter, Alison |
Unger, Adam |
| Jarrell, Meghan |
Van Hal, Eric |
| Johnson, Kyle |
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- CREW
| Ansell, Charles |
| Arnold, Erin |
| Barcak, Ethan |
| Bevan, Cameron |
| Boerner, Amanda |
| Bosco, Jessica |
| Buckley, Ryan |
| Bueso, Lucia |
| Burns, Jacob |
| Curtis, Kara |
| D'Ercole, Amanda |
| Danielson, Martin |
| Friedrich, Lisa |
| Gaido, Nick |
| Gray, Joshua |
| Hansen, Veronica |
| Herder, Liann |
| Jernigan, Katherine |
| Kistenmacher, Ryan |
| Krushin, Kelli |
| Le, Kim |
| Mathews, Sara |
| McDonald, Katlyn |
| Morris, Kira |
| Mossbarger, Hannah |
| Nhem, Steph |
| Pavelka, Josh |
| Penny, Tom |
| Potter, Jake |
| Rickard, Matt |
| Robbins, Mark |
| Salinas, Kim |
| Schulz, Elaine |
| Sharp, Cory |
| Smith, Meghan |
| Stewart, Jon |
| Ward, Ryan |
| Williams, Oliver |
| Wood, Chris |
| Zendt, John |
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