PAGE 6, THE TOWNSMAN, T By JOANNE AMES Herald staff writer The moment comes, after all the hours of rehearsal and learning lines, the. trauma of pacing the floor at nights with your script, praying that you won't orget your three lines in the -first act, when... You actually have to go in front of an audience. The whole texture of the play changes. The timing changes, there are pegple out there who care about what you're - doing on stage. They laugh at the jokes that you've started to think were ‘'sick”, says Tony’ Pavao, who played one of the lead roles in the Skeena Theatre arts play, “Big Rock at Candy's Mountain. They laugh at things Phe expect them to but, “they don’t get some of the jokes that we think are funny,” reflects Elsie Toelstra, who, played ‘Myra Mobile in the production. Acting, improves. Julie Skara, who played a hippie and a well-di audience makes the play better because “the kids give more with the audience there.’”” Without the audience, it would be just like another dress rehearsal, some of the students said. “They were the ones who directed it, actually,” said Tony Pavao. ‘After the second act, I had such a feeling from the people out there...” The first moment, when ‘our foot crosses the line tween the wings and the You realize that _ er, says the: hursday June 16. 1977 _ BIG ROCK AT CANDY MOUNTAIN stage, all the nerves come to! ahead. It’s not being afraid. of the audience, it’s thinking about lines and movement, and whether or not you can: be heard out there. . Will the set changes Will the lighting work? come through? After the. first few minutes, 386 you can relax, even though you can “look SATURDAY out there and see people you know,” said Dianne Coutts. ° Once you start acting, there’s no time to worry. When the play is over, there is the relief of gettin back to a routine, Take off the makeup, put. away the costumes, tackle the books. Tests and final marks are comi in school. - These ia alot of sadness, “We're a smash!;; The moments of super-high energy after a performance have everybody laughing. too. Working 50 many hours together brings people together. Shirley Taylor, who played Zippity Dewdar, said the group became. close, “sort of like a family.” Elsie Troelstra added that “you have to be able to trust each other and get along.” ; . Some of the players wish ‘they could have done the Nervous, relieved, disappointed play for more nights, or taken it to other schools. It seems like such a_ short climax to six months of work to only a two-night run. What has theatre done for the kids involved? “It gives you the courage: to go up and speak for ° yourself. You feel more dependent, and you don’t care what the other guy has to say, you're not afraid to say your own mind,” said e Skara, ~ “You wouldn't have caught me dead on a stage two years ago. “It’s really SPEED BUGGY SESAME STREET 9:00 _ [KIDDIES ON KAMERA ... ONCE UPOA A crassic ) nged me hers b PORTLAND ROME PARADE, CIRCLE SQUARE... 10;00 BIO GLUE MARBLE noticed fhat the Kids who DOUBLE DECKER : 10:30 | LErsao. t REGOP i! questions .in school NBG MAJOR, LEAGUE SATURDAY MORNING + TH:00"[ wcoowan 800. . ‘CARRASOLENDAS _} ‘assemblies and things are BASEBALL - KLAHANIE st 11:30] stow siz z SESAME STREET __ | mostly in drama. And it’s ‘NFB FILMS 12:00 | sovs oF COLLECTING ; ‘ -- nantly people in drama who ° 12:30 VALUES AND _HORALITY ‘because they're not afraid to. LADIGS PRO GOLF 1:00 | RED FISHER. : OAL PAINTING NOS get up on stage in front of P ASSOCIATION CHAM. US OPEN GOLF 3:30 . BASICALLY BASEGALL . - people, —_ 2:00 | ALL STAR WRESTUNG VICTORY GARDEN A gift, even if these SATURDAY MOVIE: 2:30 FOOD PRESERVING: ast this youre comntinued 3200 SANPIONSE TENNIS: | WOMAN — will last them a lifetime. DEATH VALLEY DAYS 3:30 BOOK BEAT i SURVIVAL j NASL SOCCER 4:00 WORLD ——- Ssunon A OTHE Pint “EXO-MAN” . David NEWSERVICE $30 RT ——— Ackroyd - stars as physics NBC NEWS __ 5:00 NOVA ‘professor Nick Conrad, who "ANIAL WORLD 5:30 pitempts to Invent a sult to —— ———— : nN . THE AOR OOF acilitate movement In his ee aaa — oe — CERTAINTY Wo.¥t3 kari] limbs following an ansaull by 8 GONG SHOW... 4 . — —— — mob hitman which feaves him "EMERGENCY . OUTDOOR EDUCATIO 1 7:00 3GIRLS3 REBOP ~ af Permanontly paralyzed. ANDY WILLIAMS" 7:30 Sarin HAPPY DAYS “s 8:00 | ACADEMY PER THE PALLISERS wee ee rote John “env” IATURDAY MOHT MOVIES B30 Corbett. Cattle baron’ meets 9:00 PERFORMANCE JAZZ Billy the Kid.and they fight the 5:30 a town bess and his corrupt of- 10:00 BEST OF ERNIE KOVACS ficara who plan to take over the ° KING OF KENSINGTON - .: 10:30 : sewn Te a oT a GX OR CT Price Fronk Lovely, Pron NEWS “seit : : : c@, Frank Love it waKEND SS PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS” 71:30 : - Kirk, Paul Pleernt, Cherles LATS SHOW 12:00 ‘THE LLATIE SHOW! ®Chisuiry” ” in and Carolyn Jones. “SOE HO EVIL! Museum ire turns man. into mon: steals bodles fram .§ STAR MOVIE: “Wome of ‘Morgue to create: life-tike' “Images In wax,