A follow up to the Denny Tillman note from last month...his note follows...
Denny TillmanDear Hix News Editors,
Please post my query.
Since many of you from the class of 1960 shared our earlier grades too, I'm wondering if anybody out there remembers putting on Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" in junior high? I think it was the 8th or 9th grade.
A note from Jeanette Arnold Bemberis...her note follows...
Hi...Denny Tillman wanted to remember the junior high production of The Mikado.
Ivars BemberisIvars and I (Jeanette) put our heads together and think it was probably in the spring of 1956.
Jeanette Arnold Bemberis
Polly CrammerPolly Crammer was Yum Yum
Phoebe Oliver
Phoebe Oliver was Katisha, both were in the class of 1959. Ivars was Nanki Poo ( he couldn't sing, but was good at memorizing the lines!).
Kathy Millevolte
Kathy Millevolte was one of the three little maids.
Bonnie Wilbur
Bonnie Wilbur and I were in the chorus.
Harold Berkowitz
Harold Berkowitz was one of the characters also-can't remember which one.
Recently Ivars and I ushered at the Richmond Opera Company's lavish production of "The Mikado" and while we thoroughly enjoyed the trip down memory lane we were both amazed that we remembered so many of the lyrics to the songs after all of the years that have passed. Our junior high production was a great experience and the memory is still there!
