Home Photo Galleries   • 2000-2009   • 1990-1999   • 1989   • 1988   • 1987   • 1986   • 1985   • 1984   • 1983   • 1982   • 1981   • 1980   • 1970-1979   • 1960-1969   • 1950-1959   • 1949   • 1948   1980 A Woodlands Melodrama The Thirty-Third Year: May 9 and 10, 1980 Steering Committee Chairman: Mike Myers Producer: Keith McConnell Writer/Director: Jill Benone Musical Director (Show): Al Larson and his Orchestra Choreographers: Barbara Benz and Margie Miller Singers: Jim French Set Design: Liz French Little Schoolhouse Design: Keith McConnell Set Construction: Lee Weismeyer Graphics: Nancy Campbell Program/Poster Art: Keith McConnell By Jill Benone: Laid in a mythical Verdugo Woodlands of 1906, we had a hero rescuing the heroine who was tied to the railroad tracks by the villain. We had a new headmaster (Steve Smith) visualizing a school of the future, a pragmatic schoolmaster (Gary Goold), three ladies who create a PTA, and their kids. We also have Nacho Guacamole and his Killer Bees, and Miss Esmeralda Tree, a travelling saleslady peddling soap in which the lye fat is added last (song cue: Ah, Sweet Miss Tree of Lye-Fat Last, I’ve found you!) The backdrop was the Verdugo hills with real estate signs advertising new housing developments and the upcoming Galleria III. (We thought it was funny. Little did we know!) The year’s PTA logo, the little schoolhouse, appeared as a practical part of the set upstage right against the hills where Schoolmaster Goold taught.