Viewmont High School 1974 Yearbook (Bountiful UT)

Four hours a day, five days a week, for two months -

Totaling over 180 hours of practicing - The jokes be–

come sour, the nerves become raw, brains tired, memories

foggy - Bodies sore and aching - Throats rough

and dry - Day after day - Repeating the same lines

over and over and over and over ... and over - Lying

in the semi-dark auditorium on the rough red carpet –

Waiting for your cues - Missing them more than once–

Dancers meeting cast - Orchestra meeting sound crew

- Taking 50 or 60 people, throwing them together for

eight weeks in red alert conditions - You come out

either all mentally unstable or all everlasting friends –

Comparable to a miniature " Peyton Place" - Sitting

around after practice listening to a critique - Realizing

every day brings the production closer, closer, until ...

DRESS REHEARSAL - Make-up, lights, set - Opening

nights after practices painting the scenery -- Falling off

ladders - Slopping goopy paint all over the stage –

Listen ing to "Tommy, " "Jesus Christ Superstar, " and the

Beatles.