Saturday - November 21: They did it again...the WHS Alumni All Stars put on another incredibly entertaining Lip Sync show. This fall's edition once again took place in the Wellsville High School's Auditeria and the house was packed. This show started a little later than the scheduled 7 o'clock curtain raising while waiting for all the audience to get inside to their seats. The missus & I got there at 6:15 thinking we were way too early and the line already was way out the door.
The cast & crew consisted of 33 alumni members and five future alumni. Wilbur Waggoner served as emcee plus performing in a few of the numbers. All the cast & crew kicked in filling multiple roles from performing musical numbers, to being stage hands, working the concession stand and handling the chores at the door. The performers ranged from graduates of the Class of 54 up to the Class of 91 plus the future alumni. Kenny DeLauder told me he was giving the underclassmen a chance. He was ticket taker at the door along with "Miss Orange & Black" Mary Heaton.
The show started with Toni Figley & Aaron Roach doing a little shadow dancing. Pat O'Hara sang a beautiful gospel tune a cappella. There were 21 lip sync performances of recordings from 1940s up to modern times. It went from gospel, to blue grass, to country, to soul, to hard rock and rap. There was some serious singing to many fun filled interpretations of how we remember many of the songs being done.
One would be hard pressed to pick out the best of the show. They were all good. We about split our side with Helen Hughes rendition of Patsy Cline's "She's Got You". How did she get all that stuff in there? We were very impressed with young Ali Ammon's fiddle playing. Along with her dad Ron that young lady had you doing some serious toe tapping in their premiere appearance. Young Braylee DeLauder stole my heart with her bouncing pig tags, infectious smile and energetic dancing. Mitch Dorsey once again impressed us with his moves. We could go on and on about all of them. It was very obvious all the performers made some serious efforts rehearsing to put on another award winning show. The price of admission would have been cheap at twice the price for this fun filled fund raiser. If you missed it you missed an excellent opportunity to enjoy yourselves.
Billy Roberts was there filming the show. I think there will be DVD copies available at a later date. All proceeds go to the WHS Alumni Activities. Believe this one is going toward expenses getting ready for the big reunion next summer. Think Wilbur said the next scheduled show is to open the 2010 All Class Reunion.
We got so many pictures we made four collages and split 'em into two parts. See below for the second set of pictures. For a better look you can click on any group of pictures to make it bigger.
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