Ptah
Black Tie / Tennis Shoe Ball
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Saturday March 31, 2001
Holiday Inn Select
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Princess
Barbara Parham assists in setting up decorations
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Unknown
visitor of the Orient
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Master
Builder Ben Beer and Russ Gilpatrick contemplate
set design
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The
Bensteins plead with Chuck Stewart for an
autograph from his cousin Marty
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Table
center-pieces add color
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John
Jamieson patiently stands guard over golden Foo-Dogs
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Breaking
into Puccini's "Un Bel Di", Beth Almond attempts
to play Madame
Butterfly to Ron Schneider's Lieutenant Pinkerton
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"Who Loves Ya, Baby?"
- Chinese Version (King Lee Person)
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Princess
Barbara Parham, Queen Donna Gilpatrick, and the
"King's Lady", Susie Person
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Give
a man a Kung-Fu Do-Rag and he's king of the dance
floor (David Benstein, sweeping wife Barbara off
her feet)
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"Three
Geishas, a Guy, & Some Royals" . . . (Princess Mary
Markus, Tommy Pollard, Princess Barbara Parham,
King Lee Person, Queen Donna Gilpatrick, &
Princess Cindy Schneider)
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Miss
Susie-Q
with Fu-Manchu (Susie Person & Russ Gilpatrick)
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"Sure,
I probably CAN break your girlfriend's hairdo with a karate chop . . .
but I'd rather use a board" (King Lee
Person)
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"Are
they filming RISING SUN II?" - Sean
Connery look-alike King Lee Person
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"Walter
in Babe-Land" (with Queen Donna Gilpatrick)
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Evil
Bond villain "Dr.
No" meets Queen of the PTAHs (Russ & Donna
Gilpatrick)
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PTAH
members, looking like the cast of Miss Saigon
(Princesses Cindy Schneider, Mary Markus, & Barbara
Parham with Tommy "Legs" Pollard & at front, Queen Donna
Gilpatrick & King Lee Person
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Scenes from "The Full
Monty" equipped with HAIR (Ra-Met
& Ennead members) |
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Ennead
brings back the Hip-'60's with their performance of HAIR
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While
the men of Ra-Met strike back with "The Full
Monty" Bump & Grind
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Jim
Wilson singing lead for Ennead
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"Don't
worry, they've ASSURED us it's only "body-suits"
. . . but Marcy McConnell appears to have her doubts (assisted
by Rick Gano)
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"Gimme
HAIR down to THERE!" . . . . shouts the exuberant
cast of Ennead
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Making
a rare appearance in Memphis - the lovely & talented Marilu
Henner with Taxi friend, Jim (sorry, don't have
the CORRECT names yet - - these will have to do for now)
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"Between
Heaven & Earth" . . . stand Princess Mary
Markus, Tommy Pollard (substituting for the
injured Princess Jean Jamieson) with Queen Donna
Gilpatrick and Princesses Barbara Parham &
Cindy Schneider
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Susie
Person, Russ Gilpatrick & Princess Barbara
Parham practice their Little Lotus Blossom Dance
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King
Lee Person lectures on the joys of Ginseng
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The
two winning Krewes (Ra-Met & Ennead) take
the floor after the final run-off
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Susie
& King Lee Person with Princess Barbara
Parham
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Queen
Donna Gilpatrick & King Lee Person
visit PTAH's Samurai Delicatessen
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"You
Can Leave Your Hard-Hat On" Winning Members of Ra-Met's
"Full Monty Troupe"
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"Are
the naked people gone yet?" says Princess Mary
Markus. "Gee, we certainly HOPE
not", smiles Tommy Pollard as Princesses Barbara
Parham & Cindy Schneider look on
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