Dawn Thomsen: Special effects unbelievable.

New coordinator
for Mount Elizabeth

Kitimat’s Mount Elizabeth The-

" atre is losing coordinator Yvonne

Stowell, who has spent seven years
in the position. Stowell says she’ll
miss many aspects of the job.

"It's been a challenging and
rewarding position," she says. "I’m
looking forward to being a patron
of the arts and will continue to be
an interested member of the theatre
community."

This summer Stowell will partici-
pate in a three-week fibre arts
course through the Aurora Summer
School of the Arts and take a long-
awaited vacation to the Queen
Charlotte Islands.

In September Cathy Spanevello
will take over the position as
coordinator of Mount Elizabeth
Theatre. Spanevello was first
active with the theatre during her
term as school trustee from 1988
through 1990. After leaving her
post as a trustee, she remained
involved in the theatre as a volun-
teer. She says, "When the job

came up in the spring, I couldn’t
refuse."

Spanevelio has lived in Kitimat
for 11 years and worked at Far-
west Travel for cight of those
years.

by Harriett Fjaagesund
The 35 theatre arts students from

Skeena Junior Secondary School

who recently attended the Phantom
of the Opera stage play in
Varicouver spoke in glowing terms
of the production. Two of the

students, Dawn Thomsen and |

Glenys George, said the production
was unlike anything they had ever
seen before, using words such as
“awesome”, "unbelievable" and
"fantastic" to describe it. They
added that no other play or movie
they’ve seen about the phantom
could in any way compare to the
new production.

Both agreed that the music,
lighting, sound and dramatics were
electrifying, but that the costumes
and special effects were by far the
most spectacular features. Thomsen
described a scene in which a wall
of flames shot up on-stage. "We
were sitting back somewhere in the
30th or 35th row, and we actually
felt the heat! Everybody was talk-
ing about it afterwards. It was
unbelievable!"

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Skeena theatre students
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Glenys George said she -later
spoke with a woman who was
seated somewhere in one of the
front rows. She felt as though her
eyebrows had been singed during
the fiery scene, which lasted only
a matter of seconds.

Before the performance, students
participated in a pre-performance
educational program. They viewed
a video on a 100-inch screen,

which gave them a deeper under-

standing of what it takes to put
together a production of the mag-
nitude of the Phantom of the
Opera. Both girls commented that

not only did they learn something |

from the video, but also that the
play itself gave them more encour-
agement to succeed in their own
drama and theatre activities.

The students also participated in
a question and answer period with
two of the. performers and the
stage manager. They were treated
to a surprise visit by the phantom

himself, Jeff Hyslop. Thomsen and
George remarked that he seemed a
totally different person on stage,
even during scenes where he was
unmasked. They both felt this was
due not only to make-up but to
Hyslop’s superb acting ability.

The students saw two other plays
while in Vancouver — the Arts
Club’s Revue Theatre’s Dads in
Bondage, a musical comedy about
three fathers staying home to take
care of their children, and the
Vancouver Theatre Sports, an
improvisational theatre company
that took ideas from the audience
and produced some hilarious skits.

Thomsen added that travelling to
Vancouver made the students feel
much more responsible and aware,
because for many of them it was
the first time they had been on
such a trip without their parents,

Theatre Arts instructor Brian
Koven was largely responsible for
‘arranging the tour.

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