Faculty-Student Comariety Review
On January 12, 1968, at 8:30 P.M.
in the Student Union Building, the
curtain rose on the first annual Fa
culty-Student Comariety Show with
a capacity crowd to view the forth
coming evening’s events. An ap
propriate first comment is to give
three cheers to Mr. Len Shaeval and
Mr. Alan Price, whose creativity,
imagination, and boundless efforts
as producer and director resulted in
an exceptional night’s entertain
ment. Yet, as with ail first attempts
at stardom, there are flaws which
must be ironed out, improvements
to be made, and criticisms that are
warranted for the betterment of fu
ture programs. It is in this light
that I offer my evaluation of the
performance.
The show opened with a bang
with the entire cast welcoming the
audience in song. The words and
melody (again contributed by pro
ducer Len Shaeval) were fitting
and rythmic and immediately put
the audience in a receptive mood.
Although I think the chorus was
guilty of harboring a few monotones
along with a few stragglers who had
a bit of difficulty staying on pitch,
the score was enthusiastically de
livered in addition to being well
arranged.
George Kashi and Mike Hager
really got the show on the road with
the “Faculty Auto Race”. Their
fiery and most witty commentary on
an imagined race among the mem
bers of the faculty was superb. The
descriptions were so vivid and the
voices of the two commentators so
exhilarating, that one could almost
visualize Mr. Parkin, rolling for
ward in his Rambler, or Mr. Aurand
barreling ahead in his Barracuda,
or Miss Goodman keeping a steady
pace in her MG, the latter under the
close scrutiny of our two approving
commentators. To be honest with
you, George, I think you should for
get politics—you’re a natural for
the stage, and Mike, you take no
back seat either—Rowan and Martin
will have to go a long way to whip
up a skit that would top your “Fa
culty Auto Race.”
The skits that followed in the
first act; namely “Final Phys. Ed.
Class”, “Cafeteria”, and “Main
tenance Shop”, added a few laughs
to the show, but basically left some
thing to be desired. The general
plot of these skits was good, but
as they progressed they tended to
become dull and dry in content.
They accomplished in three or four
minutes what they could have very
well said in one or two-and some
what more effectively at that.
The Interlude that Frank Nasta
see and Larry Opert provided with
the “Folk Group” between skits
was a welcome one. Such talent
at Highacres should be continually
pursued. It lent a certain artistic
quality and variety to the show that
otherwise would have been lack
ing. Mr. Nastasee and Mr. Opert
gave a rendition of several popular
folk numbers which cannot be too
highly commended.
The undisputed hit of the even
ing was to come, however, at the
end of the first half of the show,
when our Dr. Staudenmeir wowed
us all with his “leg show”. He
was great! Honest, Doc, we were
beginning to think you really blew
your cool. Seriously, the next time
you plan to be that daring, I will
lend you my Lady Gillete-You
know, it gives that smoother, sex
ier look!
The second half of the “Faculty-
Student extravaganza was equally
erttertaining in its scope. Yet, it
also had its lags, the main one
found in the skit “Highacres Home
Movies”. Bat Man made his en
trance a bit too conspicuously after
the second or third scene. The one
really hilarious part of this skit
was Mr. Cerullo’s confiscating the
school funds. We always did think
you were somewhat of a shady char
acter, Mr. C. now we really have
the goods on you.
Mr. Paul’s “Women’s Fashions”
and the student display of “The
May Ball” were both extremely
well-delivered and well-received
acts. I am convinced that Sal De-
Fazio made the best May Queen on
record, and I am sure Mr. Paul will
have an increased enrollment in his
classes from now on due to his
acutely interesting topics of dis
cussion.
The highlights of the second half
of the show undoubtedly shone on
the “Faculty Quintet”. A better
assortment of “nutty” professors
I am certain no University will ever
see. When Mr. Shaeval came out in
that blonde mop everyone knew it
was over. I think he was a perfect
cross between Raggedy-Ann and
Paul McCartney. As if this were
not enough, he was followed by a
somewhat shady looking character
in black leather jacket and match
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