Subj:      earlier years.
Date:     11/17/98 11:56:22 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:     cjacobso@dept.english.upenn.edu (Carolyn Jacobson)
To:  jeffgoode@aol.com (Jeff Goode)

Hi Jeff--

Some early details.

Spring, 1988

March 18 was the last day before spring break, and March
25 was during spring break.

[May 6, 1988]--last day of classes
[May 13, 1988]--Last day of finals


FALL--1988

October 14, 1988--first show I went to.  I make some note about one guy
doing a penthouse article about the IC Police.  Held outside.
[October 21, 1988]

Tue, Dec 13 last day of classes
[December 16, 1988]
Tue, Dec. 20, 1988--Last day of finals


SPRING--1989

Wednesday, Jan 11, 1989--Classes Start
[January 13, 1989]
[January 20, 1989]
[January 27, 1989]
[February 3, 1989]
[February 10, 1989]
[February 17, 1989]

February 24, 1989
Philosophy Teacher/Hardees Poet/Beethoven Sketch.  Referred to as "Hardees
Sanitation Sketch"
"Free at Last"
Something about sleeping with a plant?
reference to a Dead Panther sketch
Question about whether the money has been raised for the piano.  

March 3, 1989
Gwen Link (first of the night) with the cans and the story of the homeless
man under the bridge. Best serious piece I've seen at No Shame in
sometime.
Spiderman sketch
3 scripts in envelopes, people reading them cold.   
The lipsync at the end was really interesting. Those guys certainly can
dance.
"Touch My Brother's Wee-Wee"

March 10, 1989
Short (maybe only one piece?)
Piano player doing something

[March 17, 1989]--last day of classes before Spring Break

[March 24, 1989]--during spring break

March 31, 1989
The first act would have been much better if the people had acted and not
read.  
The Wile E. Coyote bit went over well because of the fact that he
memorized it mostly.  
Writer and Critic Script
Gary Frank might have been involved

April 7, 1989
Last skit of the night involved a red ink gun

April 14, 1989
Outside

April 21-22, 1989--Best of NS for $2, in Theater B
Ran an hour and a half
Gary&Jacob doing "Moms"   (Due to Jacob's abscence)
John singing "Annabel Lee." 
Two by NS Players
Dead panther (disputed about whether this was there or not.  Maybe fri but
not sat.)
One where the four people lyed on the florr was rather wierd, but not too
bad.  
(Names listed on the poster:  Gurler, Johnson, Smith, Ristau, Price,
Frank, Wells, T-Bone, The music of Stuart Hoyle, Margo, Scully & Mitchell,
Dr. Yahtzee, Schnurr, Heinz, Dead Panther, "and more")

[April 28, 1989]--last day of classes

[May 5, 1989]--last day of finals

SUMMER--1989

July 14, 1989--May have been one  which PARTI people didn't know about
(just theater people?)

July 21, 1989
Musical at end
Long live the Looser's and Ray on the white telephone.  1-800-843-7070
talk to ray talk to me......


FALL--1989

Sept 15, 1989--first show of semester.  Problem finding faculty advisor
Outside at 11:30 instead of 11.
Premiere of NS Dancers
Dr. Seuss piece.--it's a Amway salesman and a Jehovah's witness, each
trying to bring the other over to his 'faith'.

Sept. 22, 1989--back at normal time
Bob did something (sex on stage?)--the evangalist who had all that cocaine
dumped on him
Sounds like T-Bone was there asking questions

September 29, 1989
And for the performance, I can't say much because it was my first.
But for the lady who did the reading on the painter:
  FUCK OFF BITCH
The lady in the red sweater.  I'm pissed because i happen to be
military. And she only represented the horror side of the story!
There are many reasons for war, and many horrible consequences.
But i happen to believe that you have inalienable rights and i will
defend those rights for you even if i am maimed or killed.  i will
do my best so that tif can perform at no shame, and bodie can listen
to Prince, and so T-bone can smoke and play his guitar.  I will
put my life on the line so pretty girls can come to IOWA and me
et study a profession, and even so you can have long hair and and earring.
Be proud your an American!
(Sounds like she read some poems)
NS Dancers with poetry being read
It seems that no one liked anything that the so dubbed "lady in the red
sweater"said or did.  I shall be brave, or stupid, only time will tell
which, and state openly that I thought her "Ode to a Blanket" was pretty
decent work.
I missed a good chunck of No Shame but if THIS woman in the red sweater
did "Ode to a Blanket"-she is a playwrite in the workshop here.
********************
169 (of 828) PARADIGM Sep. 29, 1989 at 15:03  
ATTENTION!  I have skit for tonight, I need three people to help.
 part 1 myself
part 2 person who can argue, as much talking as part 1
part 3 one or two lines
part 4   all you need to do is beable to fall down

October 6, 1989
Some very very loud music piece (Korean music?) (Done by some woman
teaching acting 1.  Maybe someone Korean.  Who said that if the noise hurt
people, he had succeeeded.)
The Bullwinkle skit, (aka "Bullwinkie and Rhonda" )--by City High Students
the only serious drama was Garry Frank's piece about the fight between the
two ex-friends
"White Rap,"--by City high school kids
Chris Mortika--Magician piece

October 13, 1989 (In Thea. A)
First piece was someone (not T-Bone) singing
Somehing with Garry Frank and Bob Cappel or One with Bob Cappel alone.
Not sure which.
T-Bone
Doughnut dance

October 20, 1989--Thea A

October 27, 1989
   Well, was it marijuana or what? I've heard conflicting reports:
yes it was, that's why Cheryl freaked, no it wasn't, Cheryl was upset
because the guy was rambling off his script, yes, it smelled like it,
no, it didn't look like it, etc. --It's a piece about potsmoking.  Not
actually smoking it, though.  (Sounds like Cheryl getting mad was staged)
********
Boring Eagle Monologue

--Cheryl quoting from Stephen King's *Skeleton Crew* called "Paranoid: A
Chant", the monologue about the people watching her and the man with the
electric ear surfacing in her toilet, etc. That was also a Steven King
poem. 
***************
Monologue--like the one where his father came down with a knife.
Piano p iece
Shawn's piece about her father and the divorce
(ASK ADAM TO CHECK GA#814.  DOES IT FIT IN HERE? SMick "Waking")

November 3, 1989
piece with the ex-sor member and the batcaver at the deadwood
The goldfish skit 
Piece with Dano, Denise, David (He was the first skit... the monologue
about God, heaven, the nature of everything, etc.)
It was awesome 'cause of all the Really awesome pieces, "Sting, huh? Yea,
I'd Fuck him".  "We never really accepted his death", The piano/Acoustic
Bass "jam" session.   The Dance number.
******
the "hair" bit ("My whole family has thick hair") was a scene from the
upcoming West Side Players production "Objective Love"
********
Cheryl's Further attributions: I don't know how many people caught it, but
Cheryl Snodgrass' tiger skit... the kid trying to go to the bathroom
without getting eaten by the tiger in the corner... was word-for-word
(less some editing) from a Steven King short story, "Here Be Tygers".
(_Skeleton Crew_) Rorschach assures me that the order list at the
beginning of the evening credited that to King/Snodgrass (or was it
Snodgrass/King?) but I certainly didn't catch it, and neither did the
people behind us. A lot of people missed parts of the skit because they
were grumbling about the fact that she hadn't credited it properly. 
***********
Reference to a Chess by mail piece done by Gary Frank and  Bob--actually a
Woody Allen piece  (May have happened earlier)

November 10, 1989--Theater A
Table Top Theater
Something else about Siblings (my journal.  Sweeny Siblings?  Oh.  I'm
remembering that this show happened in A, and that Cheryl Graef and some
man did a take-off on the Sweeny sisters skits on SNL--moving through the
audience, singing show tunes.)

November 17, 1989

November 24, 1989--Day after Thanksgiving.  No NS

[December 1, 1989]

December 8, 1989
Musical at NS which I couldn't go to (Scott's Boy with No Skin?)
I think this one is the last of the semester.

[December 15, 1989]

[December 22, 1989]



SPRING--1990
School starts somewhere between Wed, Jan 10, 1990 and Fri. Jan 12, 1990
[January 12, 1990]
[January 19, 1990]
[January 26, 1990]
[February 2, 1990]
[February 9, 1990]
[February 16, 1990]
[February 23, 1990]
[March 2, 1990]
[March 9, 1990]
[March 16, 1990]--last day before spring break
[March 23, 1990]--during spring break
[March 30, 1990]
[April 6, 1990]
[April 13, 1990]
[April 20, 1990]
[April 27, 1990]
[May 4, 1990]
[May 11, 1990]
[May 18, 1990]
[May 25, 1990]--school is definitely more than over by this date.