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Bonney Lake ‘Guys and Dolls’ a hit By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
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angsters, gamblers and small-time “Runyonland” hustlers overran Sumner High School’s Performing Arts Center the past weekend. Bonney Lake High School’s drama department began its production of musical “Guys and Dolls” last Friday. The cast and crew performed three repeat shows over the weekend The show’s plot — based on the short fiction of Damon Runyon, an author known for placing a sentimental lens over New York’s criminal element — follows the fallout of a bet between gamblers Sky Masterson (Michael Scribner) and Nathan Detroit (Joseph Drummond). Detroit — in need of $1,000 to rent space for his floating illegal craps game — bets Masterson he can’t convince pious Bible thumper Sgt. Sarah Brown (Kaylee Pettie) to have dinner with him in Havana, Cuba. As Masterson insinuates himself into Brown’s life, the mismatched pair develop sincere love. Meanwhile, Detroit repeatedly tries — and eventually fails — to dodge the marital demands of nightclub performer and 14-year fiancee Miss Adelaide (Sabrina LaGasse). “Guys and Dolls” was the first drama production for Pettie, a senior and longtime singer with the Panther chamber choir.
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Mallorie Ballard, Michelle Limanni and Lizzy Rice-Reynolds play dancers at the Hot Box nightclub in Bonney Lake High School’s production of the musical ‘Guys and Dolls’. Photo by Daniel Nash
Lights, camera, action at Pistol Annie’s shop By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
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Melissa Denny and Jennifer Andrews, partners in Pistol Annie’s Jewelry & Pawn became the stars of a reality television pilot taped Feb. 25. Photo by Daniel Nash
Firearms customers who stepped into Pistol Annie’s Jewelry & Pawn on Feb. 25 found themselves staring down the business end of something that can be even more intimidating than a gun: a camera. The still-fresh pawn shop, coowned by Melissa Denny and Jennifer Andrews, was the site of taping for a reality television pilot produced by the BHf Films, the company behind upcoming unemployment documen-
tary “Not Working.” Viewers familiar with similar reality shows like “Pawn Stars” and “Hardcore Pawn” know they focus on the (slightly dramatized) day-to-day business of pawn shops, set in front of the backdrops of Las Vegas and Detroit, respectively. So will Bonney Lake become a hot, new prime time locale? The short answer is “We’ll see.” As is the norm in television production, a finished pilot doesn’t guarantee air time. Independent production companies will write, record and edit a single episode of a show — the pilot — on speculation. The producers will then take the pilot and shop it around the networks for an interested party. If network executives like the pilot and test audience reaction is strong, the show will be picked up for broadcast as a series.
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