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   1986 North to the Klondike Thirty-Ninth Year: May 9 and 10, 1986 Steering Committee Chairman: Dave West Steering Committee Treasurer: Bruce Hinckley Producer: Bob Rector Writer/Director: Jill Benone Musical Director: Steve Hill Choreographer: Melinda Prentice Associate Choreographers: Barbara Benz, Mary Jean Muff Rehearsal Singers’ Rehearsal Accompanist: Angie Browne Credits/Graphics (25th Year): Nancy Campbell By Jill Benone: The program was finally set up the way it should be. The Steering and Production committees were properly identified, the cast list was correct, and the program notes were placed well. The show, in five scenes, moved from VW through the Chilkoot Pass to Mother Lode’s salon and boarding house, defeating a villain, his girl friend, and dealing with prospectors, barmaids, a claim jumper, and the Zeppolinis. All the Klondike stuff happened in the 1890s, but a linear time frame has never been a problem for Follies. The unintentional highlight of the show was the discovery of Bruce Hinckley’s favorite costume and good-luck charm, a red dress, which unknown to him had been abducted by his dear close friends. Bruce, costumed in yellow, was upset at the disappearance. In an ad-libbed scene, dear friends Rector and West rolled out the red costume on a dressmaker’s dummy. Bruce, playing his customary PTA president, immediately "purchased" the dress and changed into it onstage. From then on, he took it home with him. He kept it for the remainder of his years with Follies. Hinckley, West, Rector, and Mike Myers, with Lee Weismeyer, Kirk Stewart, Greg Galletley, Doug Hunt, and the invaluable Tom Dibble, Dave Kern and Dick Soderlund, among others, sharpened the Steering and Production Committees into a finely tuned machine. Everybody was active in the PTA, all worked on the shows, and everybody talked to everybody else. These were very happy, productive, and profitable years for Follies.