Kingsport Times-News / Saturday, March 8, 1980
Teen Scene
"Occupational hazards"
A couple of near misses occurred recently at Central High School, reports teen correspondent Karen Hamilton.
Play practices for the student production of "Hello Dolly" had been going well until Rick Hill, one of the characters in the production, accidentally bumped into a prop, a tall bookcase, causing it to fall to the ground.
Leslie Sharp and Becky Poister, playing the characters of Minnie Fay and Irene Molloy, had been rehearsing a scene under the bookcase just seconds before. Luckily, Paula Bryant, director of the play, had instructed the girls to move just moments before the bookcase hit the stage floor.
In a separate incident, band Director William Canny was conducting the Jazz Band in a particularly intense piece of music when a flag pole hanging from the wall and a picture fell, "as if on cue," and narrowly missed Canny's head.
Canny, "in his true professional style," continued conducting through the "close encounter."
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