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InCider Press |
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Volume 27, Number 4 Bart Bartholomew, Editor and Publisher May 2004 |
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All photographs of the show were taken by Karen Nanninga and Sharon Purvis |
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Home of the Little Apple Barbershop Chorus |
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Spring show takes audience on journeys |
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For the twenty-seventh consecutive year the Little Apple Barbershop Chorus treated its audiences to memorable musical experiences during its annual spring show. The show, "Sentimental Journeys," was presented on April 24 in Kansas State University's McCain Auditorium at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prior to each performance the audience enjpyed Dixieland music by the Manhattan Barefoot Dixieland Band. Producer Don Thomson developed the show around the theme of a grandfather reliving sentimental events of his life as he related them to his grandson. Don very cleverly linked the events with appropriate narrative comments for the actors and selected songs that further developed the events being relived. When barbershop arrangements were not available for songs that told the proper story, Don arranged them. In each case the song and narratives provided the audience with vivid images and emotions of the sentimental events. The journeys being taken during the show were easily imagined due to the sets designed and constructed by Pat Caffey. Grandpa Cook, played by Larry Marcellus, and Billy, played by Spencer Wichman, spend much of their time sit |
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ting on the swing on grandpa's front porch. Other sets included a gazebo bandstand, a church, and grandstand. As always, Director Ken Lang worked tirelessly with the fifty members of the chorus insuring that words and choreography were mastered. Ken's leadership always inspires |
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The Charades: Ken Garwick, Gene Wiley, Jim Eickman and Leonard Purvis singing "Gone Fishin" while Billy (Spencer Wichman) gives fishing a try under the supervision of Grandpa (Larry Marcellus) |