Right: “Mr. Preble Gets Rid of his Wife" feain order . tured Kevin Villers as a rather meek husband trying to kill his wife, Debbie Ashbacher, to run off with his secretary A Successful Exit for Our Director Susan Saucer's last production at Prairie was not your usual two act comedy. Entitled "A Thurber Carnival", the production was a collection of some of the more famous sketches by the modern American humorist James Thurber. The sketches were linked together with musical interludes played by Bret Zvacek on guitar and keyboard, Keith Elias on saxophone, and Brian Revers on drums. Bret arranged and adapted the music, which won an award from the C.R. Community Theatre. The members of the cast had no one character to portray, but assumed many and varied parts. The actors presented everything from fables for our time to a monologue on the destruction of man. Craig Christenson, Kevin Villers, Jon Gillette, Dan Dennis, Chris White, Pam Riggs, Merrilee Freeburg, Janice Ziskovsky and Debbie Ashbacher all did an out standing job of changing characters and costumes throughout the show. Key parts of the show were the two revolving platforms and the crew in charge of them. Dennis Haren, Amy Greenlief, Susan Marak, and Chris Bell got their exercise as they moved furniture on and off, and turned the platforms for each scene. Technical direction was provided by Russ Price. Brenda Millard was student director for the show. 53
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