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'Sound of Musk? ScoresFP AudienceBy CLAIRE POTTORFF .(Kfrwi Tflbuni Stiff'.WrlUr) ^■ it billed is entertainmentlor all the family, and John'Car-roll High School has '.come' up with a-family production/ “The Sound of Music. Students cm the ilage and • parents joining mow students la the pit orches-tra — it's a fine combination lor an evening’s .entertain meat'At the 4 Thursday children’s matinee, the Broadway and Hollywood musical hit had its good and bad moments —v hut through it all It had an audience. at entranced 'r youngsters, • TP-: nights performance At the Port Fierie Elementary 'School Auditorium for those-beyond-elcme'-ntaty-school set should mov* (aster with the rough spots Ironed out and-.. Us’ .inostly-teenage cast .more confident The start of the Rogers end Hammerstein hit is a young pas* (tilani - named Maria -Rainer, And Maria; aptiy played h«re by a charming Cuban girl, Mar-garita Castellon,’ is without question the star of the JCHS production.A siire voice, a great deal of verve and an obvious affection tor the seven youngsters who share the spotlight with hex, carried Margarita — md tu a few scenes, the show, too — through to a ‘rousing escape from the Nazis over the mountains, into Switzerland.The Sound of Music, based on the larlife $tory of the singing Von ’ Trapp family, take* place in Austria in 1938, a land living In the shadow of disaster. Twenty scenes In two acts carry the family through the months prior to the invasion of Austria, and their subsequent escape.An ambitious musical for any amateur group, Tli* Sound of Music, is a big production for a high school and if the JCHS version has its' moments of indidsion, its moments of brilliance more than compensate.Musical. directors, Barbara Holt and Sister Ruth Michael desirve -accolades for their work. The choral work is almost always superb and this was no mean feat, considering the ages (the youngest Is seven) of the children .they worked with and taught to sing in. harmony.The Von Trapp children are inveterate scene-sfealers and ' this, without trying.., They all seem to be enjoying their roles immensely, particularly a talented red-headed lad who Is quite at case on the stage1 — Claude Boudrias^ He has an unusually high, clear'voice of excellent quality and couldn’t be haring more fun than dashing around qn the stage in the role of Kurt- The baby sister of this crew Is Gretl — a .very smallgirl with very kmg blond curls ind loaded with all the feminine wiles usually reserved for older sisters erf the slage. Portrayed by Virginia Case, little Gretl will' undoubtedly steal ' the hearts of all lt;the audiences at all three performances, tonight, Saturday and Sunday,Gretl*s sister (also her real sister) H * painfully bones I fraulein named ‘Brigitta, a' role played with lots of spunk; by' impish • Josephine Case.: Blond Susan Hodfoer is’ Marta, Joefe Welch Is the day-dreaming Lout sa;.Pat. Small Friedrick andthe big sister of them all, lies!, is the 'v,inning Laurie Tot-sworth, •Individually and- coUecfcivBly, thelt; Von Trapp children do a better than average and better .than amateur fob. They are exceptionally good singing -“The Lonely Goatherd Song” with Maria', and the poignant good* night' song — “So Long, Fare* well.”Dorothy Marentette Is the Mother Abbess. It’s not an easy job — a young girl, interpreting tiie role of a mature woman, but Miss Marentelte does a fine fob as the sympathetic .Mother Superior and also falls heir to one of the best songs. In theshow — “Climb Every Mountain.11 *Second female lead — the sophisticated Elsa Scliraeder — is a role easily bandied by Aida Wooley, still remembered for* her raucous portrayal of Megs Broekie in last year1* school musical, Brigadoon.' And another Brigadoon character, dour . Mister Lundy, Is back on stage — this- time as the male lead — the arrogantSt. Lucie Tops In Sales TaxSt. Lucie County led all others of its size, or larger, throughout the state, in sales tax collection increase for the month of March over March of 1966.Thas was revealed in compilations released by the Florida Revenue Commission today, showing a 19.48 per. cent rise for the countyi agakjt an averr age of 3.67 for the state- as a whole.St/L u c i'e collections wereCaptain Von Trapp, a widower, fatter of the seven children andeventual husband of Maria. Gene Crlbbs,'the captain, comes through with a good baritone voice. It carries him through a love aong with Maria — “An Ordinary Couple'* — which wowed Thursday’s pencil-pushing set.• Presto-chaego and Paul Cor-nille is taking over as Max Del; weiler, an engaging entrepreneur, He makes a convincingMax — a man of the world■ ,wbo Is .out to make It. Rolf Gruber,' the awkward youth who cquris.-Iiesl is handled well by John ScoLfo,Franz, the butler, sneeringly Prussian and resplendent in red jacket, is played by Alfred Neil. The somewhat snooty Frau Schmidt, housekeeper for theVon Trapps, is a suitably snippy Carole Barolim.The Ihree nuns, Sister Berthe (Ellen Woife), SUter Margaret* ta (Lurana Case) and Sister Sophia’(Barbara Molner) do much to get the show off to a (aat start, Be sirre and notice the faces of tte chorus of sister3, they are as lovely as the if singing U good. 1Oathy' Clotty is seen briefly as a postulant. At the Captain's panty you'll meet Herr Zeller, (•Michael Underwood) and the austere Baroa •Elberfeld, (Thomas Harris), John CorntUe Is castas the arrogant Admiral Von SAreiber, a roie sparked with Germanic hauteur. Then there are dancers, and a bevy of nuns — not to mention a few stagehands who got tangled in the curtains or caught behind sets on a few occasions, Thursday.And the people behind the weeks of rehearsing and work Elmer Cox, dramatic coach; Sister Jean Agnes, scenario; Sister Sarah Patrick, costume mistress; and orchestra, direc-. tor, Arthur C, Pot-torff. An orchestra, even a small one like this, is a great addition to an amateur musical production and more local groups should try to do this.• R’s a goo/ show — you’ll go home whistling songs that have long since become familiar to you, and y 0 u’ 11 probably remember for quite some time, the startling loveliness of Mar-$161,740.40 for the mouth against $135,366.32 for Morfih, ’66, Pe- ganta Oastelloh as a joyousfleeting a ^ubstsantial gain hithe county's business. /Martin jCounty eolf cottons $79,553.11 were up 11.82 per cent over March a year ago; Indian River County was up f 77 per cent, and Okeechobee's rose-by4.12 per cent.bride in the'wedding scene.✓HOUSING(Continued From Pig# 1)approximately $10 to $12 for
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1967
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