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Daisy Wollangk - A Legendary Volunteer By: Roy Riedy |
The first of the thirty plays that Mrs. Daisy Wollangk was associated with was the first production of Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Sue Vos as the third show of HLT's Fifth Season in May, 1979, in which Daisy played Yente, the matchmaker.
Daisy was involved with all four plays of the Sixth Season. In November, Daisy played a Bali Ha'i Islander in Frank Oberhausen's first musical, South Pacific, and also worked as a member of his Wardrobe team. In March, 1980, she worked with a Wardrobe team again for David Eakin's presentation of Jack Sharkey's comedy Who's On First. In June, Janelou Buck directed the mystery, Laura, in which Daisy played Mrs. Dorgan, and in September, she worked in Wardrobe again for Teri Klix's comedy My Three Angels.
Janelou Buck and Carol Gose directed the musical Irene for the opening of the Seventh Season with Daisy Wollangk as its Wardrobe Mistress. In February, Frank Oberhausen directed the great musical My Fair Lady with Daisy playing Mrs. Higgins. Daisy was one of the Chefs of the Gourmet Division during Jim McCollum's melodrama No Mother to Guide Her in February, 1982, the second play of the Eighth Season. The following play was Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, directed by Janelou Buck with Daisy on her Costume team. Marian Dunham directed Teahouse of the August Moon, appropriately in August, as the first play to be put on in the new home of HLT, The Lakeside Playhouse. Daisy was seen as Miss Higa Jiga in that landmark musical.
Frank Oberhausen's lavish musical Camelot opened the Ninth Season with Mrs. Wollangk as his Wardrobe Mistress. Auntie Mame was directed in January by Peter Pollard with Daisy on the Gourmet Staff, working with the Salad Bar. Deathtrap was present in June, 1983, directed by Janelou Buck with Daisy again in Gourmet at the Salad Bar, a job she repeated in September, during Teri Klix's production of Heaven Can Wait.
Daisy was back on stage in November as Widow Corney, in Marian Dunham's musical Oliver!, and a Seamstress and Salad Bar person in February for Frank Oberhausen's musical Annie Get Your Gun. Janelou Buck directed the comedy Born Yesterday in March, 1984, and Daisy directed the Salad Bar. Carol Gose's Can-Can kicked up its heels in June while Daisy concerned herself again with Gourmet's Salad Bar. The final play of the Tenth Season was Peter Pollard's comedy The Owl and the Pussycat while Daisy ended her season in Gourmet at the Salad Bar.
During the entire Eleventh Season Daisy was concerned with her duties with the Salad Bar. In the Twelfth Season, Mrs. Wollangk appeared as Sophie, a Hooverite, in Frank Oberhausen's November, 1985, musical Annie, and also worked as a Seamstress behind the scenes. During the other two plays of that season, Mrs. Wollangk returned to Gourmet and worked at the Salad Bar. In the April program for Arsenic and Old Lace, Daisy and Mary Gordon were named co-chairpersons of the Salad Bar. At the end of the Twelfth Season the First Annual Zenon Awards Ceremony were held and Daisy was the recipient of the Best Costumes of the Season Zenon for her work on Frank Oberhausen's musical Annie.
Daisy's name appeared in the Thirteenth Season in the June,1987, playbill of The Fantasticks, directed by Richard Farnsworth and Karen Cardozo Rosa, as a member of the Wardrobe group. The last time her name appeared as a volunteer was in the Fourteenth Season's November program for Marian Dunham's Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. Daisy was listed as a member of the Costumers for that play.
A tribute to Mrs. Wollangk appeared in the Sixteenth Season's January program for Peter Pollard's On Golden Pond which announced Daisy's death and extolled her virtues as a long time volunteer, a talented actress and willing worker.
During her eleven seasons with Highlands Little Theatre, Mrs. Wollangk was mentioned in thirty-two play and two Zenon programs. She won a Zenon for her costume design at the First Zenon Awards Ceremony and her name was mentioned in eight HLT newsletters and thirty-nine news items for a total of eighty-one citations. She is a legend at the Lakeside Playhouse.
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