The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1986 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 80 TH& McCfCiphOHC February 14
Issue 19 Southwestern University 1986
Georgetown, Texas
SU Theater Student has shot at the Big Time
♦
a pretty selective group. I think it’s a
big honor,” Fincher said.
Her monologues, both two
minutes, were from the contem-
porary comedy “Bad Habits” and
the classical play “Learned Ladies”
by Moliere, the 18th Century satirist.
___She will perform the same selec-
tions in Chicago, and as in the
preliminaries, she will be critiqued on
her diction, gestures, stage presence,
and other criteria.
Fincher will not audition in
costume because “the judges need to
see who 1 am and what 1 can do with
my voice and body.” She performs
the monologues in different voices.
She credits SU instructor John
Hooker with much of her voice and
diction achievement, especially in her
classical selection.
No stranger to this type of
pressure, Fincher last month audi-
tioned in Fort Worth for members of
the Southwest Theatre Conference.
She received five offers to work in
summer programs.
“She’s an excellent student. We,
the faculty, are proud of her. She has
performed well in summer theater
and other areas,” Hossalla said.
After she graduates from SU next
fall, Fincher hopes to spend the spr-
ing semester involved in a theater in-
ternship program in New York.
Once she gets her Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree, she hopes to pursue ac-
ting in graduate school.
freshman from SHERMAN HIGH
SCHOOL, where she discovered
theater.
At SU, she has appeared as Lady
Capulet in “Romeo and Juliet,” as
Martha Dobie in Lillian Heilman’s
“The Children’s Hour11 and as the
female lead in Neil Simon’s
“Barefoot in the Park.”
Theatergoers saw her also in
“Cinderella” and “Snow' White,”
and she will appear as Mrs. Harcourt
in this month’s “Anything Goes,” a
tap-dancing musical by Cole Porter.
Fincher is active in Alpha Delta Pi-
social sorority, Cardinal Key, a na-
tional honorary sorority; Alpha Psi
Omega, the theater fraternity, and
SlJ’s Mask and Wig Players.
Late Night
with Doug
by Kenny Simon
What do students do when they get
the late night hungries when study-
ing? Well, they used to go to
7-Eleven, but not since the advent of
Chez Doug here on campus. The
man’s name is Doug Frobese and he
is the one-man operation that SAGA
has set up every Monday through
Thursday, from 9-12 midnight in the
Union Snack Bar. Since its opening
Doug has been busy cooking, serv-
ing, and consequently making a name
for himself.
Frobese is a Junior transfer student
from Arkansas College. He is an
English Major here at Southwestern
and hails from the
Houston/Pereland area of the state.
Doug got started because like most
other college students he needed a
job. Having amassed some ex-
perience in the snack bar field in
Arkansas, he found himslef talking
to Bob Stage. Stage had plans lor a
late night snack bar operation to give
students an alternative late night
food stop. With his experience,
Frobese was the perfect man for the
job and having arrived at a fortuitous
moment, he began immediately.
Although the facilities were much
smaller in Arkansas, Doug had never
experienced the one-man operation
before, especially in a casual late-
night setting. He has quickly asserted
his prowess and skill in the minds of
his customers, as students, many of
them regulars, come every night to
chat with Doug and take part in some
of his backwoods cuisine.
Doug Frobese is apparently very
popular with his customers, who
come to him with smiles on their
faces and a friendly word for the man
with the spatula. Rutger Helbing, a
frequenter of Chez Doug says that
Frobese really knows his customers
and that he (Helbing) “doesn’t even
have to ask vfor (his) coffee
anymore.”
Other names that people use to
refer to the Snack Bar, are Doug’s
Place and Doug’s Food Palace.
Doug says that it is just a job and
that it “beats washing dishes.” Doug
Michelle Fincher, Junior will be a finalist at the O.E.R.T.A. auditions this year for
college theatre students._ (
GEORGETOWN--A
Southwestern University student ma-
joring in theater will travel to
Chicago Feb. 19 to audition before
some 40 representatives of summer
theater programs, Shakespeare
festivals and graduate schools from
across the country.___
Michelle Fincher, 21, an SU junior
from SHERMAN, TEXAS, will
deliver two monologues to members
of the prestigious University/REsi-
dent Theatre Association, Inc. with
hopes she will be offered a summer
theater position and then be
remembered later when she considers
graduate school.
Fincher’s trip to the final audition
in Chicago began when Dr. Richard
Hossalla, chairman of SU’s Theatre
and Speech Communication Depart-
ment, and John Oertling, assistant
professor, nominated her to attend
the preliminary auditions in Austin
last month.
The three judges, one from the
Dallas Theatre Center, another from
the Utah Shakespeare Festival and
one from the University of Texas,
chose her as a finalist.
“I was surprised to be picked. It’s
Doug Frobese is the man behind the midnight snack bar; he makes the food...
also commented that as a transfer, it
has given him a chance to meet a lot
of people and make some friends
along the way. Between his studying
and his bagpipes and guitar, Doug
does not have much time for
anything else. When asked about his
growing popularity with the student
populace, Doug said “sure they like
me, they don’t want to offend the
Chef...I just cook the food and take
the money.” For a late night break, a
little bite to eat, and some fast and
furious service try Late Night with
Doug Frobese, serving until mid-
night.
...and takes the money.
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