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   1984 The Beautiful Briny Sea Thirty-Seventh Year: May 18 and 19, 1984 Steering Committee Chairman: They Can’t Say No* Producer: Mike Browne Writer/Director: Jill Benone Musical Director: Steve Hill Music Arrangements/Adaptations: Irene Louie Choreographers: Ginger Barrett, Dolores Hawkes, Linda Hunt, Dorothy Montapert Singers’ Master Rehearsal: Jim French "Beautiful Briny Sea" Set Design: Nancy Campbell "Davy Jones’ Locker Set Design: Liz French Credits and Graphics: Nancy Campbell By Jill Benone: No one man could commit to heading the steering committee*, but there were many active past chairmen and producers who never said "no" to Follies. In addition to filling other positions, they covered the gap. Steve Hill was back for good, and the singing/dancing numbers become truly excellent. The program covered the entire show. The ad sales and patrons’ lists took up forty-one pages, including full covers, and the program photographs were current. Once again, set painters included VW students, who may have been painting by numbers, but were learning some stagecraft. Somehow or another, several VW students, the PTA ladies, and an Olympic trainer end up beneath the sea on their way to Davy Jones’ Locker, a sort of resort hotel. Davy is a jovial host and record keeper of all things lost beneath the sea. The dancers were the Corps de Poisson. The Lobster Quadrille was not in the least what Lewis Carroll imagined (or maybe it was.) On the "Davy Jones’ Locker" set, Liz French painted two matching portraits. One, "Coleridge With Albatross" was the poet with the albatross around his neck. The other, "Albatross With Coleridge" had the bird with the poet around its neck.