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From: Rick Blum
Date: 31 Aug 2005
Time: 17:44:53 -0400
Remote Name: 24.183.62.214
This list is in honor of all the fine work the archives staff did this year in trying to track down old pictures of previous talent shows. The pictures gathered did a great job of capturing some of the magic that's happened at camp for the past 30+ years. But they can't tell the whole story.
So, to get a discussion going, and to keep the memories warm until next summer, here is my suggested top 5 staff talent show skits of all time..(Feel free to reply or argue for your own favorite)
#5: "King with a very fierce temper" (1976-1980, 1988...) A skit that always managed to whip the kids in the front row into a frenzy. One of Karl Weber's lasting contributions to the legend of Camp Arcadia.
#4: "If I had a Million Dollars" (2002) The only one of recent vintage to make the list. But it was a classic idea to combine a popular song at the time and mix it with a popular Arcadia topic at the time, the spirit of Arcadia campaign.
#3: The Important Papers (1976): For those of a certain vintage, nothing says staff talent show more than former staffer Andy Feldt wearing that silly lifeguard hat, talking in a German accent, and running out the door at the end of the skit with a roll of toilet paper.
#2: The food skit (1988) This was a skit performed the year I was on staff. I don't really remember the premise, other than it was 4 your girls trying to eat food. But it singlehandedly had the funniest moment I've ever seen at a staff talent show when former staffer Anita Krizman (AKA: Hoover) tried to stuff too much food in her mouth, and it was always hilarious watching her trying to swallow everything she ate.
And the #1 Camp Arcadia skit of all time: "Dear Stanley" (1977-1981): Former Laundress Denise Noffze's tour de force one woman show of an old lady writing a letter to "Stanley" in a bring down the house fashion.
Honorable mention: The Sweeney Sisters (mid 90's), Captain Obvious (mid 90's), Carnak (Mike Zeddies version..late 70's) and the performance of the soap opera at Camp. Clark Zeddies did the best pratfall at the end of this skit imitating "night falls". I suspect he still has back problems from that skit.
Agree, disagree??? Haven't heard of any of them and need clarification? Well, that's what the discussion room is all about. Send your thoughts and get the discussion going.