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D) Tom Wopat looks up to 'Blue Skies7D4 Math students go in circles remembering value of piD2 Even one mistake with alcohol can destroy a lifeD3 0 The Sun avium TUESDAY July 19, 1988 GetMim J4 MB step for ttlhe eaet By KATHRYN HANSLER Sun Staff Writer AfT Wi. i 3 wife A '1 tv-iV loft. sk L- Vtf xr-- k4 v-- r1-- MARK ZALESKIThe Sun Assistant choreographer Scott Grossman of Los Angeles leads Miss Teen USA contestants through rehearsals for a dance production for Monday's pageant. Now, the competition begins By STEVE COOPER Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Even a Miss Teen beauty needs a Mr. Teen hunk.

For the past three days, the 51 Miss Teen USA contestants got their wish when a group of high school hunks were bused back and forth from Orange County each day to rehearse and dance with the girls in preparation for the Miss Teen USA contest and national telecast July 25. The young men were imported as an 1 1th-hour solution to a problem that cropped up as the girls began rehearsing a large-scale production number scheduled to be videotaped in advance and then aired during next Monday's telecast. "With this kind of number, the girls need some guys to relate to," said Tad Tadlock, the show's choreographer. So on Saturday two days before the contestants were scheduled to tape the dance number 12 high school hunks arrived to share the stage with them. It was the first day of full-scale rehearsals on stage at the Orange Pavilion on the National Orange Showgrounds.

And the familiar cry throughout the day came from the choreographers: "OK, let's do it one more time. Five. Six. Seven. Eight.

Hit it." Much of the nine-hour day was spent getting the young men all cheerleaders from Los Ala-mitos High School in Orange County and young women used to working together on stage in their big production number, "Standing There," teenage pop singer Tiffany's remake of the original Beatles hit. The show's producers hadn't decided until Friday night to have the young men perform in the dance routine. But, as Tadlock put it, since "it's about these guys standing there," the young men seemed to be an important addition. When the cheerleaders walked through the doors, Tadlock shouted, "I've got dancers" and then she leaped in the air like a teenager herself. And when the young men and women met, it was, to say the least, mutual admiration.

The young men ogled and whistled as the girls wiggled heir hips and bounced through their dance routine; and, in return, the girls whistled See REHEARSALD2 TEEN SCHEDULE Wednesday: First round of forma! competition in swim-suits and evening gowns at8p Tickets are $12.50 and Monday: Dress rehearsalfor telecast, 1Ga m.tonoon Tickets are $5. Pageant is at 5-8 m. Tickets ere $27 50 and $37 vision comedy "The New Christy Fichtner, Miss USA 1986; Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton of KIIS-KM: Paul Krepprel, co-star of TV's "It's a Roz Ryan, of television's Hum-berto Savone, Beverly Hills hairdresser; Marina Sirtis, of "Star Trek: The Next model Tatiana. and Judy Zerafa, founder of the national teen motivation program "Go for It." At Monday's pageant, 10 finalists will be named. Wednesday's scores will be tossed out and the tants will once again be judged in eveninggowns, swimsuits and interviews.

Tickets for Wednesday's event are $12.50 and $15 and are available at all Ticket-master locations. Or call In land Ticket Service at (714) 884-0178. SAN BERN Alt l)I0 Wednesday is the night for smiles at the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Though the 51 contestants will appear in evening gowns and swimsuits for their first formal pageant competition, no one will know the sting of defeat during the event at the National Orange Showgrounds. Results from voting by a celebrity panel won't be known until Monday's nationally televised finals.

KCBS-TV weatherman Maclovio Perez and beauty expert Beverly Sassoon will co-host the show at 8 p.m. in the Orange Pavilion. A local band, Rave-Up, will perform. The contestants will earn two-thirds of their judging points during the show. The other hird will be awarded Thursday and Friday during five-minute interviews with the judging panel.

Judges tonight and Monday are Olympic ice skater Scott Hamilton; Allison Brown, Miss Teen USA 1986; Dean Butler, star of the tele i 1 I Miss Teen USA delegates, Kansas' Jennifer Estes, 17, left, Arizona's Kristen Peterson, 18, and Arkansas' Jessica Welch, 17, enjoy a break together. Chaperones offer a friendly lift to teenagers away from home By KATHRYN HANSLER Sun Staff Writer have to clean the bathroom. I don't have to make my bed," said Fran Shuttleworth, 59, of Red-lands. "I get to go to all these exciting places." Shuttleworth, a widow of five years, said she decided to be a chaperone while waiting to hear if she passed her physical so she can join the Peace Corps. She's joining the Peace Corps because "there has to be more to life than just what I've had." Besides Shuttleworth, the other four local women chaperones are Elaine Hall of High-See CHAPERONESD2 perhaps the reason why only five local women volunteered for the job.

The pageant had hoped to recruit 26 chaperones. But with only nine the pageant provided the other four chaperones each woman has had to care for between eight to 10 girls, instead of the usual two. The five chaperones from the surrounding cities volunteered because they had the time and wanted to get behind the scenes of a Hollywood production. For most of them, this is a vacation. "I don't have to cook.

I don't eant's care for three weeks. Delegates can't leave the hotel room without an official from the Miss Universe organization. The chaperones fill this gap. All chaperones must be women who are at least 30 years old, and if they are not mothers themselves, they must have had experience working with teenage girls as a teacher or coach, for instance. And the chaperone must be able to stay at the hotel for the three weeks the girls are competing.

This latter requirement is contestants. Chaperones are with the delegates 24 hours a day, giving them their wake-up call, making sure they get to their rehearsals on time and getting them to dinner. With the girls snug in their rooms by 9 p.m., each woman retires to a room nearby, always there in case an emergency arises. Chaperones don't mind. That's their job.

The contestants call these women their second moms. Pageant producers call them the glue that holds the young dele gates together. The job requires that chaperones be a jack-of-all-trades. "It's a combination teacher, friend, counselor, companion and mom-away-from-home," said Rodney "Roddy" Jennings, head chaperone for Miss Universe sponsor of the Miss Teen USA pageant. And like the girls' own mothers back home, a chaperone's pay is zilch.

The pageant uses chaperones to supervise the girls while the contestants are in the pag Like mother hens, these women watch protectively over their brood. When one of "their girls" needs hair curlers or hungers for yogurt, they run to the store. If "their girl" gets homesick or stressed out over the upcoming competition, they provide the shoulder to cry on. These women are the chaperones for the 5 1 Miss Teen USA Cast gets up close, personal in 'Vanities' By OWEN SHEERAN Sun Staff Writer 1 I STAGE PREVIEW VI 4 i ih WHAT: "Vanities." WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and July 29-30, Aug.

5-6. WHERE: Carl Johnson Center, 214 N. Palm Rialto. TICKETS: $6 adults, $4 senior citizens and students. CALL: (714) 820-2612 or (714) 875-3063.

S5wr I sorority house where they begin to confront their futures. In the third scene, set in 1974, the three reunite briefly and discover their friendships strained and out of place. "I think the play itself is about growth and non-growth," Stewart said. Joanne, for example, never really changes in the play. Even as an adult, she holds onto the same ideals from her high school days.

That's really her identity, Stewart said. Mary, from beginning to end, is unafraid to experiment with life and break out of the old stereotypes. When the three meet again in 1974, she speaks French and tells of her sexual encounters all across Europe. The character of Kathy, however, is more difficult to explain, Stewart said. By the time of the trio's reunion, she is "essentially deadened and can't go on much further," trying to hold on to the days gone by.

While "Vanities" does concern itself about the growth or non-growth of these characters, he said, there's no moral or See 'VANITIES7D2 if? RIALTO Community theater director Thorn Stewart likes to direct small cast plays because it creates a unity, trust and sense of purpose between the actors. And in a play such as Jack Heifner's "Vanities." it's absolutely essential for the actors to be close to effectively portray the three characters of Joanne, Mary and Kathy. The Rialto Community Players production of "Vanities," a bittersweet comedy about growing up and relationships between three women in the '60s and '70s, opens Friday night at the Carl Johnson Center here. "I love working with a small cast. The smaller the cast, the more you can get intimate with them as a director, and the more intimate they can get with their characters," said Stewart, who is directing his second show with the Players.

Small casts can also provide the basis for forging good friendships, he said, and if Mi ml 7 allow for real ensemble work between the actors. And when that happens, the players know it and so does the audience. Set up as three scenes, rather than acts, "Vanities" focuses on the lives of three Texas girls from 1963 to 1978, from high school to college to adulthood. When the play opens, friends Joanne, Mary and Kathy are all high school cheerleaders, and are pretty much alike as they discuss boyfriends, makeup, dating and plans for college. The second scene, five years later, takes place in their college LARRY ROSEThe Sun CAST OF THREE: Starring in 'Vanities' are, from left, Candy Kane as Mary, Shireen Dunwoody as Joanne and Sharon Wilson-McLean as Kathy.

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