{"id":12460,"date":"2014-04-09T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2014-04-09T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:14:34","slug":"elk-lake-stages-ditch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/04\/09\/elk-lake-stages-ditch-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Lake stages &#8216;Ditch Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12461\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12461\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12461\" alt=\"On a traditional senior skip day before the prom, students Adeline (Allyssa Hewitt)and Matt (Kyler DeGrote) encounter street person Trudy Everpopular (Natalie Newhart) while engaged in a scavenger hunt.\" src=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL002-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL002-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL002-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL002.jpg 2836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a traditional senior skip day before the prom, students Adeline (Allyssa Hewitt)and Matt (Kyler DeGrote) encounter street person Trudy Everpopular (Natalie Newhart) while engaged in a scavenger hunt.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY PAT FARNELLI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for spring, Elk Lake Drama Club is performing &#8220;Ditch Day,&#8221; this Friday and Saturday, which should provide some relief for community cabin fever.<\/p>\n<p>It is the day before Senior Prom at Horace Handyblender High, a day traditionally known as Ditch Day, and students are plagued with senioritis.<\/p>\n<p>But this year the students have been warned that following tradition could land them in hot water.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12463\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12463\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12463\" alt=\"While model Dana Nonnamacher sits for a portrait by artist Pete Picasso (Nick Smith) at the local art museum, Quality Du Jour (Bri LaRue) does a little scheming with Chips Sawyer (Justin Cobb).\" src=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL006-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL006-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL006-1024x379.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL006.jpg 2629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While model Dana Nonnamacher sits for a portrait by artist Pete Picasso (Nick Smith) at the local art museum, Quality Du Jour (Bri LaRue) does a little scheming with Chips Sawyer (Justin Cobb).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The principal, Miss Claypool (Shanice Warner), otherwise known as &#8220;The Terror,&#8221; has vowed to track down any wayward students and make them pay dearly for their day of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Bag lady Trudy Everpopular (Natalie Newhart) works the truant students, the searching administrators, and the audience with broadly comic relish, selling lottery tickets, watches, and other devices from her raincoat.<br \/>\nThis doesn&#8217;t deter Cliff (Matt Sterner), Adeline (Allyssa Hewitt), and their friends from upholding senior skip day tradition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12462\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12462\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12462\" alt=\"High School Principal Miss Claypool (Shanice Warner) questions homeless opportunist Trudy Everpopular (Natalie Newhart) while searching for AWOL seniors with her assistant Miss Sparrow (Haley Skinner). \" src=\"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL003-300x280.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL003-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL003-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psowegomedia.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WGSI_DitchDayEL003.jpg 2282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High School Principal Miss Claypool (Shanice Warner) questions homeless opportunist Trudy Everpopular (Natalie Newhart) while searching for AWOL seniors with her assistant Miss Sparrow (Haley Skinner).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To make the event memorable, a treasure hunt has been planned, but things happen that are not what the students bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of jewelry thieves (Justin Cobb, Chris Kinder, and Bri LaRue) has hidden a stolen diamond necklace in Adeline&#8217;s bag. Now, unbeknownst to the students, the thieves are watching their every move.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;The Terror&#8221; and her assistant, Miss Sparrow (Haley Skinner) are also in hot pursuit. The chase is on through the art museum, a shopping mall and to the beach. Add an artist, a cop, surfer Muzzleguts, bag-lady Trudy Everpopular and fortune teller Madame Zenobia and you&#8217;ve got a day filled with zany characters and lots of laughs.<\/p>\n<p>The show, written by Tim Kelly, will be performed in the Elk Lake High School auditorium, Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Director is Ina Braddish.<\/p>\n<p>Cost of tickets is $3 and can be reserved by calling the Elk Lake School at 278-1106 ext 226 and leaving a detailed message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY PAT FARNELLI Just in time for spring, Elk Lake Drama Club is performing &#8220;Ditch Day,&#8221; this Friday and Saturday, which should provide some relief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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