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Article: Parents of drama students answer to another curtain.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2002
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Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard
What a difference a year makes.
Last year about this time, Mary Huls, director of the youth-oriented Spotlight Theatre in Pleasant Hill, practically was dragging some of her students' parents onto the stage to do a play.
This year, she can't hold them back.
"They're having way too much fun," Huls says with a laugh.
Sparking the merriment is "Drop Dead," Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore's 1985 screwball who-done-it farce, which Spotlight Theatre will open Thursday.
"Drop Dead" is quite similar to "Noises Off," currently playing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Both ...