Northstar Chorus Annual Show, 1990

Story Synopsis:   Step right up, ladies and gentlemen!  Welcome to the semi-greatest show on earth!   Somewhere, in a world only slightly simpler than ours, a bedraggled small-time circus finds itself facing fearful financial and familial difficulties in the small town of Dixie Minnesota.  The great Closalina family of tightrope walkers faces a leadership vaccuum;  no one knows whether the new clown and her trained dog will draw couch potatoes out of their sacks; and all of the men have been kicked out of their quarters by their wives....hurry, hurry, hurry.

Title:                  Uptight on the Tight Rope--or--No, No, No Net

Author:              Dutton Foster

Location:          I. A. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium on the Campus of the College of St. Catherine

Date:                March 24, 1990, 4:30 and 8 p.m.

Headliner(s):    Interstate Rivals

                           Esprit De Corps

Other Quartets: Metrotones

                            Three Ring Circus

                            Clowning Around

                            Rain 'N' Shine

Characters:        Tornado Warning                Max Parks

                            Miranda Warning                Molly Anderson

                            Novo Caine                        Steve Osborne

                            Trajectory Closalina            Bob Delamatre

                            Claude Posterior                Dave Melville

                            Forsa Gravity                    Mark Gilstad

                            Washonda Closalina           Carol King

                            Steve Adore                        Jeff Griese

                            Georgia Clown                    Jenni-Cowdry-Nielsen

                            Assorted Clowns                Mary Lou Gilstad

                                                                      Kathleen Almquist

Chorus Songs:    Circus Day In Dixie

                            What, No Women?!?

                            Coney Island/We all Fall Medley

                            Down in the Old Neighborhood

                            A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

                            Five Foot Ten, Poison Pen

                            Heart of a Clown

                            Baby Face

                            When the Circus Came to town

                            When the midnight Choo-Choo leaves for Alabam

Memorable Line from Show:

Tornado Warning:  I'm sorry to say, the Human Cannon Ball has been fired ...We'll never find another man of his caliber...