Junior Show - Class of 1961

Cover: Susan Mosher

Mount Holyoke College - Class of 1961 Presents
That's The Spirit
Author - Ginger Stromsted
Chairman of Show - Cynthia Freidman

Director - Mrs. Debra Koff Freedman
Literary Critic - Miss Virginia Ridley
Technical Advisor - Mr. Oliver Allyn Business Manager - Margaret Bloete
Stage Manager - Carol Schwartz
Technical Director - Julie McMaster

Mob:
Jiffy Bagster-Collins
Ann Bragner
Ellen Fetter
Ginny Gross
Barbara Jabs
Janet Nack
Judy Perinchief
Carol Spalding
Ruth Vars
Shirley Whittlesey
Connie Williams

Dancers:
Marina Biaggi
Barbara Bowman
Norma Farrar
Betsy Gummey
Barbara Lehage
Helen Maurer
Susan Mosher
Joyce Rose
Ann Wood

CAST

Noah
Sairy
Pocca Dew
Appleblossom
Jake
Jake's Followers:
    Dodo
    Chaz
    Buckeye
    Drewberry
Maggie Walpurgis
Maggie's Cohort, Jeremy
Georgie
Grandpa
Dino
Marilyn
Barley
Zamber
The Rear Brothers - State Revenue Men:
    Sunny
    Herb
    Theether
    Pincheron
    Dudley
    Nancy Dingwall
    Betsy Karch
    Sue Rhodes
    Sue Griffin
    Marion Strong

    Joyce Weiderman
    Barbara Baldwin
    Nancy Birge
    Barbara Hall
    Karen Johnson
    Nancy Barnes
    Barbie Sutton
    Sallie Austin
    Rocki Hill
    Judith Marshall
    Mary Lynn Caffrey
    Jody Teel

    Joan Bunting
    Ruth Cooney
    Donna Miller
    Callie Davidge
    Rosann Thompson

Villagers: Sylvia Beasley, Janice Kubic, Lillys Marik,
Virginia Sparrow, Sally Stearns, Paula Whitney
    Music:
    Chairman
    Virginia Smith

    Liz Hottel
    Rocki Hill
    Margie Morrell
    Carol Miller
    Janet Smith
    Julie McMaster
    Joyce Wiederman
    Marion Strong
    Sara Jane Woodward
    Nancy Dingwall

    Pianists
    Janet Smith
    Sara Jane Woodward

    Records
    Barbara Childs
    Kathy LaHait

THE PLOT: That's The Spirit traces the conflict of faith versus reason in the little-known border town of Hiccup, Tennessee. When the local inhabitants see smoke on Corn Pone Mountain the eddicated group deride the townspeople for going to the mountain where Maggie Walpurgis, the local conjure lady is conjurin' up a spirit. Jake, graduate of Tennessee "Agi," is especially aggrieved to see that Appleblossom, his ladyfair, has forgotten her logic and gone too. On Corn Pone Mountain, Maggie laments her inability to conjure up spirits, placing the blame on the little eddication that the mountain folks have received - it is just enough to make them doubt. In an attempt to curb their loss of faith, Magie arranges for a bogus spirit to rise from the pot. Jake and his followers are busy lambasting her seance when much to the surprise of all present, especially Maggie, Noah rises from the pot and foretells a flood. While the people, with great faith, start building an ark, Jake, with the assistance of the State Revenue Men, tries to prove to the mountain folk that there will be no flood. When the short-wave radio announces in a voice surprisingly like Noah's that the Tennessee Dam has burst and that all inhabitants had better seek shelter, both groups are reconciled. As Maggie puts it: "In a crisis, we're all (faith and reason) in the same boat."

Side One:

1. Overture
2. Smoke on Corn Pone Mountain (cast)
3. Can't You See (Sairy)
4. Propensity for Men (Pocca Dew)
5. I'm Convinced (Appleblossom)
6. Can't You See I'm Convinced I've Got a Propensity for Men
7. Eddication is the Thing Twixt Thee and Me (Appleblossom and Jake)
8. Hocus Pocus (Jake's followers)

Side Two:

1. Conjurin' Blues (Maggie Walpurgis)
2. Eddication is Lousin' Up My Brews (Maggie Walpurgis)
3. Confusion (cast)
4. Noah's Ark (Dahlia and Villager)
5. Build An Ark (cast)
6. It's All a Hoax (Dino and Jake)
7. Flood, Mud, Blood (State Revenue Men)
8. All We Got is Faith (cast)
9. We Couldn't Dam It! (cast)