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The ADVANCE, November 3, 2021 /Page 4A
Cast of "Ruby's Story"
DYNASTY!! VHS Captures
8th Straight 2AA Title
L to R: Dottie McDaniel (All-Start Cast), Mikkelle Peters (Best Actress), Roman Edwards
(Best Actor), and Alan Johnson (All-Star Cast).
The word “Dynasty”
sometimes gets overused
in the day in which we live,
but when it comes to the
Vidalia High School One
Act Play to not assign the
term might be a slight, as
the Cast of “Ruby’s Story”
won Vidalia’s 8th straight
Region 2AA Champion
ship.
The Vidalia team re
ceived high marks from
the judges, which qualified
them for the State meet on
November 20 at the Mon
roe County Fine Arts Cen
ter in Forsyth.
Two of Vidalia’s per
formers captured the top
individual awards, with Se
nior Mikkelle Peters (Adult
Ruby) taking Best Actress
and Roman Edwards win
ning Best Actor.
Peters, who is in her
3rd year of the VHS One
Act, said that she was hon
ored by the award. “This is
my third year doing One
Act and I have never gotten
any type of award, so to get
this feels incredible.”
Peters, who said she
was “shy” when she first
tried out, had some words
of advice for those who
think they “may not have
what it takes” to perform.
“Just go for it, “said Peters.
“I never thought I could
get up and cry in front of
a group of people, but Ms.
Poumelle will help you and
others will also help. So
you just have to find those
people to help you and
then go for it and try it!”
Two VHS performers
also garnered All-Star Cast
Awards, including Sopho
mores Dottie McDaniel
(Frieda) and Alan Johnson
(Sid).
Margaret Pournelle,
who is in her 17th year as
Director/Coach, says that
she is “very grateful to get
another Region Title, their
10th in the last 17 years.
“I am very grateful, super
excited, and also relieved.
This group has been work
ing super hard and deserves
the recognition.”
Pournelle said that
this year was gratifying be
cause of the challenges that
“Ruby’s Story” presented.
“It is very hard. There are
a lot of levels to unpack, a
lot of emotions and things
that characters are showing
to each other and a lot of
things they are hiding from
each other at the same
time. So, you have to keep
that in mind when you are
portraying it. Because all of
that has to be talked about.”
Of course, the ultimate
goal for the VHS team is a
State Championship, and
they will get their oppor
tunity in a little over three
weeks when they perform
in Forsyth. And Pournelle
said there is still some work
to do. “We really need to
break down the scenes
again and take the judges’
feedback and find mo
ments they pointed out to
make them better.”
The community will
have three chances to
watch “Ruby’s Story” be
ginning Sunday, Novem
ber 14, at 2:00 p.m., with
an “understudy” perfor
mance. “These students are
at every rehearsal and put
in long hours and deserve
a chance to take the stage
during a performance,”
Pournelle said.
The other two perfor
mances will be Monday,
November 15, and Tues
day, November 16, at 7:00
p.m. All performances will
take place in the Vidalia
High School Auditorium,
and tickets will be available
at the door for $5.00.
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5. President of Syria al-
10. Partner to flows
14. “Snow” in Welsh
15. Famed Mexican painter
16. Song
17. ticks outward from the crown
18. Doddering
19. Resist authority (slang)
20. Antsy
22. Wrath
23. Spills the beans
24. Past
27. The woman
30. One has 24 hours
31. Talk
32. It can sting
35. Astronomy unit
37. Halfway
38. Chinese dynasty
39. Australian river
40. Software to transfer audio
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CLUES DOWN
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2. Italian monetary unit
3. Warship prison
4. Tropical American tree
5. Alias
6. Normal or sound powers of mind
7. English county
8. Not compatible with
9. Female deer
10. Not late
11. La Tar Pits, Hollywood
12. “Jupiter’s Legacy” actress Leslie
13. Impudence
21. Advises
23. Founder of Babism
25. A baglike structure in a plant
or animal
26. Male parent
27. A type of plug
28. Capital of Vietnam
29. Fungal disease
32. Shelter
41. Fabric
42. Crucifix
43. Defunct European economic
group
44. “Hotel California” rockers
45. Michael Knight’s car
46. Actress Ryan
47. A digital tape recording of sound
48. Insecticide
49. Scientific instrument
52. Golden- com
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56. Sword
60. Ottoman military title
61. Aromatic plants
63. Cold wind
64. Large, semiaquatic reptile (slang)
65. Political unit
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67. Comfort food dish
68. Actress Zellweger
69. Romanian city
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34. Excrete
36. Unhappy
37. Partner to cheese
38. Coffee receptacle
40. Spend time dully
41. Makes full
43. Snakelike fish
44. Take in solid food
46. student, leams healing
47. A way to take away
49. Impart a lesson to
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51. Spiritual leader
52. Every one of two or more things
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54. 17th stars
57. Weapon
58. Amounts of time
59. Isodor , American Nobel physicist
61. Soviet Socialist Republic
62. Witness
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