European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Rap boo the Days of elaborate i costumes such As or the Cotton club above and the lion in Winter Leftare Over As military theater groups in Europe Are forced to count Ihler pennies . A fun plan later air eur Gomez Nell Simon s Buol blues won Best director award Tor Michelle Pradelt of com so As Sicily in the air Force s Talent contest. Doing something with nothing la he key to what makes military theater work. Here volunteers help build a siege set. I pm the United states paying As much As $100 per 3go in per Dom plus All travel and lodging costs. This. J of. Lavender Himsel served As a judge and a Cru itch to associates Rorri within West Germany to tip Jill Roc of a Frisby a private Ballet instructor and jul time choreographer from . And Imes Pearcy. Director of the English language theater. Berlin each Community participating in the army tourney nid the judges hotel expenses when they were in their Tea Safe also is cutting Coats instead of sending its edges to each Safe Community to see he plays their Force command is holding its dramatic compete Don i one Community. Thaler groups no Ine judges Are oing the travelling. Initiated in ism Safe s 1988 play festival at Pitburg a with Cost the command Between $20,000 and e 5,000, or roughly Hall its 19b6 expense according Joann Mellon a Safe entertainment specialist most i the savings will be realized by requiring each team to ayls own billeting costs Mellon said previously Ifie command picked up thai Tab. Since less Money and fewer technical resources generally ate devoted to air Force theater programs Safe Heater groups Are More accustomed to challenges to their financial and creative Well being few air Force communities have full time Slaff employed strictly Lor theater projects. And unlike Many army troupes most Safe dram philes compete Wilh other Community organizations for use of base performance facilities we be go the interest and the enthusiasm but everything else is against said Linda Crom program director at Ine ramble it recreation Center. No performances of the Ramstein performing ails society s Safe festival entry. Vanities Are scheduled outside the Competition because Crom can t find a place to stage it. The play and the group s or Ginal entry in the festival. Blithe spirit had to be rehearsed in conference rooms at the base recreation Center. White Force communities prefer no to. Discuss on the record exact amounts allocated Tor live healer Many operate under break even guidelines and turn to bake sales car washes and other fund raisers to boost available Cash. 1 the newly formed Adana be players at in Ciurlik a Turkey managed to save Royalty Lees on oops their entry in the Safe festival through he group president Friendship Wilh the playwright. Brian Clemens. In addition the in Ciurlik a group is fostering a scriptwriting committee to develop original plays to present to the . Community which president Marty Davis said has supported the fledgling theater society. When you re in a Remote area in goes Over real Well Davis said. The question of support however in t limited to financial Aid a problem that has faced military entertainment programs since Well before financial considerations arose is occasional Lack of commander s production of Blithe spirit or instance had to be cancelled and vanities substituted Zvi weeks before the Safe festival when the leading Man s commanding. Officer refused Loel him off to a lond the Eck on. Event but Lack of funds and other woes in Somo cases just serve to urge thealor a pups onto imaginative ways of saving and raising Money As Well As producing creative tical it or Hanau s play Riu rvs sense director Jim Manrri sri of ind he needed outside my to put on the show. 7 tie i i Center in Schallenburg did t have body to incl Lor the production and when Hanrahan checked Wlsh local. Stores prices wore beyond the Community budget luckily. Iho German cd immunity United services organi Waifon helped out and paid 1.500 do about s850 ,As Well As keying non other Angels porn Mufti. Heaters Are becoming no ten Lor their resourcefulness if you Tell someone in. The healer to try to do something nothing they re going to give it a try Lavender said. Equally Mph rustic is Safe s Mellon i in Init s a growing Mellon said o Itic air Force s theater projects. And fran Lurl s Sohre Sari to s heard of Tho demise of no Litara theater since he first joined the pro Ossion some 15 years ago while the final Cvitam has come Down on some groups Many continue 10 Chase . priority is morale enhancement not to make Money Sohre said "ana1 funding will always to found for something that is mooting its to of report Sutt Mitun a Tow off thl two Rwy and fat qty is Imber 23,1988 the stars and stripes Page 15
