Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED... 1970... Straw Hat Players

2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Straw Hat Players - Minnesota State University Moorhead


The photo above, from Sunday's Fargo Forum - August 9, 1970, promotes A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, the final production of that summer season.

It's one of the few times I've played blond... I'm in the middle of the first row (billed as Lennarta Ramberg).  My "twin" is Ruth Schultz.  We're the only two not scantily clad.
  
The other admirers of returning soldier Milos Gloriosus, played in this production by Lowell Gytri (now Los Angeles actor Lowell Dean), starting at picture left, are: Monica Kolb, LaNita Sola, Patricia Holt and, in leopard skin, Peggy Smith. 

Still eighteen, I had just finished my freshman year at Moorhead State. It would be my first of seven consecutive seasons with the Straw Hat Players.

The 2013 summer season will also include a production of A FUNNY THING.  I hope to see it if Bill and I fly back to attend the 50th reunion, July 19-20.