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Article: COMMEDIA DELL' OJAI : TEACHER FORMS COMEDY TROUPE AT OJAI CAMPUS.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 16, 1996
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Byline: Victoria Giraud Special to the Daily News
Geoff Foley's love of the performing arts led him to the Boy Scouts and comedy when he founded Explorer Scout Post No. 2500, better known to Ojai folks as Commedia dell' Ojai.
A track and field coach for 19 years and athletic director at Villanova Preparatory School, Foley said there was a need for something like the Commedia.
``The schools didn't have much of a theater program. When they got too old for kiddie programs, what was really lacking was performing arts for kids,'' he said.
Commedia is the traveling art of comedy - Commedia dell' Arte - made popular in Europe during the ...