‘Duck Pond High’ comes alive in Theater Club performance

On Sept. 5, for one fleeting hour, Leisure World was host to a high school reunion in Clubhouse 2. The school, Duck Pond High, doesn’t actually exist, nor do the students—one would be shocked to see so many of their former classmates wearing costume wigs. The reunion was part of a performance of “The Class Reunion,” written and performed by LW Theater Club members.

“Remember all the people that bothered you in high school?” club president Taylor White asked the crowd. “Well, they’re all here.” In a preview of the play, White described the performance as a “rollicking comedy,” something that rang true as the clubhouse burst with laughter over the hijinks of class president- by-default Patty Wilcox and a cast of high school caricatures: the jock, the majorette, the washed-up popular girl with a criminal record, the drop-out turned famous comedian, and the reformed nun who’s taken to baking the church’s cookies with a “secret ingredient.”

“That was a crack up,” LW resident Karina Skoug said. “It was making me laugh so hard.”

The musical talents of the club’s participants, particularly Galit Shirah, Maxine Chavez, Carmen Edwards, Connie Farrand and Tosca Lies, were on full display.

The Theater Club meets in the Performing Arts Center on the fourth Friday of each month from 10-11 a.m.