Drama of the 1960's
One of the more exciting school events were the first school plays. The first play, of the ’61-’62 school year was My Three Angels, which is a Christmas story that takes play among the less-than-moral citizens of French Guiana, where half the people are ex-convicts and the other half ought to be, and yet they are able to discover what things really matter most. This play, and the others that followed, was put on in two places.
“They were held in the cafeteria” says old Cascade teacher Phil Zalesky, “Plays were not held in that place very long except when they put on the performance of Oklahoma which really required that large stage, there may have been other performances they had there. But after that they more or less went to the little theatre (Bear Space Theatre) and where held for one or two nights.”
To help with production both the Stage Crew and Drama Club worked hard. Of the Stage Crew, the ’64 yearbook says “these boys have built and set up the back drops and scenery for the plays this year and when it came to needing any equipment such as risers for the musical groups at Cascade or simply any extra props, the stage crew took care of the problem”.
In the ’64 year the Drama department put on the Fall Play, called The Member of the Wedding, as well as a Spring Madness play called In Case of Murder. The Member of the Wedding is a play adapted from a book, written in 1949 by Carson McCullers, and is about a 12 year old girl Frankie Addams, whose brother is having a wedding, leaving her with no one to listen to her and her dreams of going to Alaska.
The play, while being an amazing production, must have also inspired one sophomore named Patrick Duffy, who went on to be accepted in the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington, and later became a professional television actor.
“They were held in the cafeteria” says old Cascade teacher Phil Zalesky, “Plays were not held in that place very long except when they put on the performance of Oklahoma which really required that large stage, there may have been other performances they had there. But after that they more or less went to the little theatre (Bear Space Theatre) and where held for one or two nights.”
To help with production both the Stage Crew and Drama Club worked hard. Of the Stage Crew, the ’64 yearbook says “these boys have built and set up the back drops and scenery for the plays this year and when it came to needing any equipment such as risers for the musical groups at Cascade or simply any extra props, the stage crew took care of the problem”.
In the ’64 year the Drama department put on the Fall Play, called The Member of the Wedding, as well as a Spring Madness play called In Case of Murder. The Member of the Wedding is a play adapted from a book, written in 1949 by Carson McCullers, and is about a 12 year old girl Frankie Addams, whose brother is having a wedding, leaving her with no one to listen to her and her dreams of going to Alaska.
The play, while being an amazing production, must have also inspired one sophomore named Patrick Duffy, who went on to be accepted in the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington, and later became a professional television actor.