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THE HERALD Wedaealay ll The of packs them in Approximately 1 people eased on dawn the road to Memorial Arena over the weekend to catch three productions of the George town Figure Skating Club The of Carnival coordinator Peg Shannon said that the tickets for the three shows were sold There was one show Saturday afternoon and two more on Sunday The show gave the many talented skaters of the Georgetown Figure Skating club a chance to showcase their talents and also the opportunity to have a little fun with the classic story of the liltto girl from Kansas who finds herself In the land of Ox The highlights of the show ere no doubt the performan ces of Kris Barber and Kelly Johnson The dance pair recently crowned the Canad ian Junior champions perf in both the first and second half of each show and also did an encore each time Barber also took part in the show as a member of the Emerald City s dance court In this scene he skated with Leslie Tonna a professional with the club The script or the show was written by Greg He Till was the scene the ballon arrived to take Dorothy and back to Kansas Unfortunately the balloon man Chris Cox the Wii Stephen the Tin Man Debbie Newman the Scarecrow Janet Shepherd Toto the Laura and Dorothy SJtana Armstrong used ihe original book and movie versions of the Wizard plus the stage play the Wis to pen the show The plot did not vary from the movie which featured Judy Garland in 1B39 the same story of the little girl who gets whirled away to the and of Or There she makes some great friends as well as at least one vicious enemy and at the end she returns home to her Aunt Em In Kansas Armstrong did an excellent Job as Dorothy and Dougal was superb as Both bad many chan ces to showcase their talents on Ice Eileen Hancock chilled the audience In her solos as the Wicked Witch of the North who of course was Dorothy main adversary Also playing in the lead parts were Janet Shepherd as the scarecrow Deborah Newman as the Tin Man and Laura as the Lion The soundtrack albums from both the wizard of and The Wis were used ex tensively for he show Other members of the GFSC professional staff who worked very hard to put the show on were Connie Swal low carnival director Jan Fell Burrows Carnival costumes Marilyn Barber Carnival props and cue sheets Rick Car nival sound lighting and music and Sherry The skaters are too nume rous to 1 si here but they all did an excellent and superb Job The professional staff also received much support from parents of skaters in pulling the show together The skaters had Just six rehearsals to get the show which ran for more than three hours down pat Three advance Three Georgetown rep teams have earned a berth in the third round the The United Rent All Minor Pee Wees defeated Owen Sound three gomes to Iwo in a very exciting series The DUG Stationery Major Bant amsandthe Rotary Internal Juvenile squad were both three games to one winners in their series again Owen Sound The most heartbreaking loss In second round was suffered by the Optimist Club MnorBanlams After losing the two games or tie series in overtime the bant showed their spunk by inking the next two games to tic It up They suffered a close loss in the fifth and deciding game The and Mc Nolly Construction Major Atoms their series three games none Fort Eric and Labelmasters Minor M and Sunny Acres Farm Major Midgets lost their sets by the same numb ers Owen Sound The Minor Atoms and the Standard Products Major Pec Wees were In first round Barber was kept very busy In the Wit Asldefrom doing three great dances with bit dance partner Kelly Johnson he also was a member of the Emerald City dance court Here he dances with Leslie of Nerval at a partner Donna Is a professional with the GFSC