1995_04 The Daily Collegian April 1995

              Friday, April 7,1995     The Daily Collefcian--£
Vanities' is nightmare on pep street
By Shannon Wentworth
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"Ready—Okay" .the head
cheerleader yells as the others fall
in line to begin this flashback into
the myopic world of high School
muffles, fretting over whether
they are popular enough to win
football queen, if it is necessary to
"'" go all thewayfbra football jersey
and wondering what will hap-
'.    pen if they can't room together in
*k~ college or, horror of horrors, they
don't all get into the same soror¬
ity.
"Vanities"   directed   by
Sherilyn Saxton is a blast into the
trivialized world of three women
who are more concerned with the
symbolism of a shade of nail pol¬
ish than world events. This play
begins in 1963 with Kathy, Mary
and Jo Ann as high school seniors
deciding what cheers to do at the
pep rally, where to go after the
game and lamenting that the end
of high school is drawing near.
At the close of the first scone,
an announcement is made that
the president has been shot in
Dallas and school would be closed
for the remainder of the day. Jo
Ann (Bethany Markhain) re¬
marks, "The president of the stu¬
dent body has been shot in Dal¬
las? I just saw him in Algebra."
This comic ignorance is fore¬
shadowing these women's inabil¬
ity to cope in the "reaT world
Sarah Joynt, who most re¬
cently played Mary Tilford in
"The Children's Hour," portrays
the sexually progressive, peppy
and conniving Mary with a zeal
and horrific honesty that sent
nightmare high school shock
waves up my sgine.
Her equally^ disturbing co-
cheerleaders, Kathy (Amy
Dunham) and Jo Ann deliver out¬
standing performances as provin¬
cial, petty girls trying to step time
by denying that a world exists
beyond tlie realm of cheering.
Jo Ann is the most oblivious
and peppiest of the trio, provid¬
ing much laughter at her expense
though she doesn't know it Kathy
is the most serious and organized
of the bunda,<x>ordinating dances
decorated with chicken wire and
tissuepaperreplicasof everything
from bells to rainbows.
The play picks up with the
chipper trio four years later as
they prepare to graduate from
college. Of course, they are all in
the same sorority and worried to
hilarity aboutlifeafter college with
their rather useless degrees.
Jo Ann is going to marry her
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high school sweetheart Mary,
who has been sexually liberated
by the pill is goingonatrip around
Europe while Kathy prepares to
enter the job world as a gym
teacher.
In the final scene, the women
meet after not having seen each
other for three. Instead of catch*
ing up and reminiscing about old
times, they sadistically rake up
the past and tear it down. Kathy
and Mary realize they peaked to
soon, that being popular was at
the expense of the education they
could have used in the "real"
world Mary is just as brash as
ever, selling erotic art to rich voy-
euriffor huge sums of cash.
"Vanities", written-Jack
Heifner, is a student production
put on in Lab School 101 by the "
Theatre Arts Departmenton April
7 and 8 at 8 pjn. All proceeds
from the $3 ticket sales go to the
William Stone Memorial fund to
raise money for acting workshops.
Saxton, who directed the pro¬
duction, said that there is very
little opportunity on campus for'
student* directors^o practice on
campus outside of these produc¬
tions. She chose to put on "Vani¬
ties" when she saw the three ac¬
tresses interact
"They had the charisma nec¬
essary to bring these characters to
life," she said "A lot of people���will not be pleased with them[rhe V
cheerleadexsjaspeople They kind
of get what they deserved.   ,
"However, it may give people
insight into what it i^like to be one
of these people."
This play is a must see for
anyone who has ever wanted to
laugh at what happens to the
"popular" when there are no more
popularity contests to enter.
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