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Losing all to win (From page 14) saw an accordion and said 'that's neat'. And Mom latched onto it, saying 'Oh he likes it!' and put me into it." Accordion Arts He stuck by the accordion for three years and can still play it if he has to. But only if he has to. It wasn't until Grade Seven that -he started playing trumpet and joined the R.H. Cornish concert band a year later. When he started high school he stuck by his trumpet and signed up with the school's band. It was about the same time as he auditioned for In The Shadow Of The Glen and didn't get the part. One of his first rejections. "I remember talking to Ed Daigle (of the Borelians) when I was 10 or 11, talking about theatre and how I was thinking about getting into it. He was encour- aging but I remember _.4hinking that maybe it was because I was so big that I'd never get a part'. So he joined Diet Workshop and took it all off. "You have to make up your mind to be com- mitted to losing weight. You have to be ready in your own head." Sore Thumb And he was ready, but nothing really changed as far as theatre went. He auditioned for sev- eral parts in high school but never snagged one. So he worked on his music, joiming Jazz- merize and Intrusion. and winning medals all over the place. During the summer before Grade 12, how- ever) things started oan up. He audition- ed for part in the Borelians Christmas play, Stick With Molasses, and no sur- prise, he didn't get it. But just as he was beginning to think it was hopeless, the director of the play, Bethany Sch- ryburt, asked him to be her assistant. You can guess what he told her. His experience as assistant director led into work with the now defunct Youth Borelians during Western Week- end, in which he was the giant among many short people. "I thought, here's my chance, my ticket in the door. But, like, every- one else was 10 or 11 and I was the oldest. Did I feel dumb. Stuck out like a sore thumb'. But it was experience, nevertheless, and it was the ticket in the door for Jeff, who turned next to backstage work on Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii, and a part as Santa Claus in Mrs. Oodle Noodle, Crum Dum and Santa. Busy Year His work with the Borelians'set him up for Grade 13, the busiest year of his life. Since last summer (when he once again performed at Western Weekend) he has done umpteen assemblies, performed with Intrusion, Jazz- merize, and three plays, Jitters, The Shadow Box and the award-winning After Liverpool. Liverpool represented the PPHS Drama Club's first entry into the Durham Regional Drama Festival, against eight other plays from schools throughout the area. Two were chosen to go on to compete in a similar contest in King- ston. Liverpool was one. "It was just amazing, especially considering that I was the only one in the cast with any other previous exper- ience on stage". Liverpool didn't win in Kingston but it wasn't over by any stretch of the imagination. Not too long ago it went up again in a church in Saintfield and will be shown to a Port Perry audience for the first tim¢ on June 20 in Town afl 1873. : Conflicts Rehearsals for Liver- pool, and the various musical bands he was in began to overlap and became a serious prob- lem when he started working with Theatre Workshop Productions in two plays since Christmas -- Jitters in January and The Sha- dow Box a couple of weeks ago. "At some points in the year I was out every night", he recalls. 'There was one week where I didn't see my Mom for five days. It really blew her mind, I'll tell you. The various directors of each play were under- standing, as were his teachers when his school work began to suffer. He handled it all by complaining to any- one who would listen. "I just like to com- plain a lot. It's one of my favourite hobbies. It lets out some of the stress from feeling a little overworked. Underline little, okay?' he laughs. "They understood, sure. They realize it's for a good cause, I guess. The only thing I hated about © NEW & USED CAR & TRUCK SALES ® PARTS DEPT. ® SERVICE DEPT. the whole year was when I had conflicting rehearsals. I'd get into a lot of hassles. I sort of had to keep a balance between the two, music and drama, but I always leaned towards the drama'. With friends in music and a certain amount of his own talent, Jeff was often tempted to forget about acting and con- centrate on his music, which by the time his last years in high school rolled around, included flute playing. "But I realized I'd had my chance at music. Now it's time for drama. I'm finally gett- ing around to doing something I've always wanted to do'. He'll be finished high school within the next few weeks and plans to work for a year before thinking of university ('""UCLA, for theatre, 'cause that's where it's at!'"'). During his year of he figures he'll take a job at a restaurant or a gas station, something that will give him lots of free time to concentrate on doing as many plays as he possibly can "with- out getting burnt out". Already this summer he's scheduled to appear in Lovers And Other Strangers with Theatre Workshop Pro- ductions, the same com- pany he worked on Shadow Box with. "The Shadow Box was the hardest I've ever worked on stage", he says. "I like doing the drama stuff, the heavy stuff". "I used to do impress- ions when I was a little kid, a fat little kid. And I used to do Richard Nixon, shaking my jowls just like him and saying 'I am not a crook'. I guess they were really laughing at my fat but I was a little kid and I didn't care," he says, sadness creep- ing around the corners of his mouth. "Just as long as I could make 'em laugh". 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Both the audience and the actors alike sweltered through one of the stickiest shows of the season. Talk about self-control. Tough Role When she returned to Guelph, Sue involved herself with two more productions, Fifth of July and Top Girls, but contented herself doing mainly backstage work, learning about lighting, sound, mixing boards, computerized dimmers and a myriad of techni- cal details gleaned only from experience work- ing backstage. "It's a really good program and I'm glad I took it. I've met some people who have a lot of experience in theatre and it's good because they really take an interest in what they're doing"'. She completed her first year in Guelph's theatre course just a short month or so ago and immediately jump- ed into one of the most difficult roles in The Shadow Box, a Theatre Workshop Production presentation under the direction of John Foote (her boyfriend Steve's older brother). It turned out to be the biggest challenge she's met sc far. "California Suite anc Mousetrap and Memos were great but I really hadn't done enough tc really be pushing my: self. I guess in Shadow Box I was pushing myself more, really getting into the part," she explains. 'Both my acting teachers at university and John (Foote) pushed me harder than I've ever been pushed before'. Her next assignment is playing the lead in Whose Life Is It Any- way?, a haunting tale about an artist paralyz- ed from the waist down as the result of a car accident. "It's a fantastic part, a real challenge be- cause I have nothing to work with, only my head. Maybe it's the biggest challenge I'l] ever have". Beauty Queen She expects the prod- uction will go up some- time in July but in the meantime she'll be kept -Exterior Painting- -Interior Painting- 'Wallpaper- - Free Estimates rm peLv... 985- 3430 DENNIS ~ ANDERSON PORT PERRY, ONTARIO busy with something that has absolutely noth- ing to do with acting. 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