Actors meet tap dancing challenge

CONTRIBUTED
CALEDONIA Fine Arts
takes to the stage Dec. 7
and 8 at the R.E.M. Lee
Theaire with the musical

| Crazy For You, a story

written in the 1990s but

‘containing Gershwin hits

from the 193Ds. .

The songs and dances |

in the show have meant :

introducing several stu-

dents to the challenge of

tap dance.

Producers recruited the ‘

talents of Carole Anderson
of CJ Dance Studio this
fall to provide dance in-
struction and adapt chor-
eography,

In addition to regular
after-school _ rehearsals,
Students in the dance rou-
tines have attended four-
hour dance sessions on Sa-
turdays.

The students have been
game to try everything
thrown their way. In sev-
era] cases, though, the
professional choreography
needed to be adapted.

Crazy For You tells the
story of a New York bank-
er who wants to be a stage
pecformer but finds himself
sent to Nevada to fore-
close on a theatre that
hasn't been in use for 20
years.

To pull off a foreclosur-
e-Sstalling show - and to
stay close to the woman
he has fallen in love with
- the young banker imper-

From Bt
It’s a battle

She injects insulin four
times a day. The tests and
record-keeping all help her
tweak her insulin usage
and her schedule of fre-
quent snacks,

“If I were not such a
conscientious person |

would be long dead,” Ro-—

berts says.
Others aren’t so lucky.
Many diabetics are in
denial and wait far too
long to be checked and
diagnosed.

Some refuse to adjust to

the discipline and organi-
zation necessary. —_

Still others scrimp on
the number of daily blood
tests. Each test strip costs
about $1 for diabetics not
on a medical plan, and the
costs can add up.

The constant battle can
be depressing, Roberts
adds, and the suppart of an
understanding family is

crucial.
Raa

Life isn’t easy as a dia-
betic. And even a lifelong
expert like Roberts slips
up.

Most recently she lost
her driver's licence.

She had gone out in the
car without carefully pack-
ing a snack she could have
to boost her blood-sugar
level.

She had just parked her
car in a downtown [ot
when she realized she was
going into insulin shock.

With seconds to spare,
she decided she might lie
unconscious for hours un-
Hoticed if she stayed
where she was. That could
have caused permanent
brain damage.

So she wheeled down
the alley onto the street,
stopping her car in a safe
position but one sure to be
noticed,

The unconscious Ro- ,

berts was soon found and
tevived, but also relieved

of her driver’s licence,

“It was a _ stupid
mistake,” she said.

Despite her survival,
she’s suffered some com-
plications.

She hasn’t gone blind or
endured amputations, as
diabetics often do.

But she has lost some
sensation in extremeties,
and suffered a heart attack
two years-ago. She has
also developed liver dis-
ease.

“I've been
lucky,” she says.

The disease is on the
increase, particularly in
the aboriginal population.

Roberts’ success is an
example and a beacon of
hope for. many others who

really

Struggle daily.

“T's not-impossible to .

survive with, diabeles,” she a
8 anys.

sonates a famous impre-
sario, recruits Folties girls
from Broadway and cow-
boys and miners from Ne-
vada.

The show and the cou-
ple’s future are almost de-
stroyed when the read im-
presario arrives.

Further complications
arise with the intrusion of
a greedy saloon owner, the
banker's frustrated fiancee
and overbearing mother
and two English tourists.

The lead roles of Bobby
Child and-Polly Baker are
played by Adam Kerby
and Hannah Kantola, two
actors who appeared in
last year’s Anything Goes.

Adam and Hannah, Ka-
trina O’ Byrne and 29 other
cast members will have
the audience leaving the
theatre humming “Bidin’
My Time”, “Someone to
Watch Over Me”,
“Embraceable You”,
“They Can’t Take Thal
Away From Me”, “Nice
Work if You Can Get 1t’,
and “I Got Rhythm”.

The cast in the upcom-
ing production is the Cale-
donia’s smallest in recent
years.

“Our usual cast size is
about 50 people,” director

CAST MEMBERS rehearse “Slap That Bass" at CJ Dance Studio. .°

Rebin MacLeod says.

“But each show has its
own needs and prompts
different casting
staging.”

Musical director Geoff
Par has the members of
the 25-piece orchestra
comfortable with their po-
sitions in the “pil”.

“[’m impressed again
this year with the playing
ability and professionalism

and’

demonstrated by ‘the pit”

band. members” in laking
up this commitment, Parr
says.

Sect construction, cos-
tumes and. make-up are
supervised by Andrew

Williams and his crew of

Stagecraft 11 and 12 stu-
dents, who have spent
hours working on the show.

Assigned seating tickets

“

for all three performances °
(two evening performances
at 8: p.m., anda Saturday
matinee at 1 p.m.) are
available at the Caledonia

Senior Secondary School

Office and at Ruby Red in
the Skeena Mall.

Revenues will cover
$15,000-worth ‘of ‘bills in-
valved in staging a musi-
cal of this type.

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