For the spring play the Jackson Prep Players will be performing M*A*S*H. 

M*A*S*H was a TV series from the seventies and eighties, and before that a much-lauded 1970 motion picture. Both were based on a book, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker.

The book, movie, and TV series followed doctors in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital or M.A.S.H. unit during the Korean War. The movie came out while the United States was still  involved in the Vietnam war, and often raised questions about the horrors of war. It TV series was popular and ran for 11 years, becoming a part of American pop culture.

The Prep cast went to the Hilton Hotel downtown on April 18th and met with an organization called Bonfire Builders working with wounded veterans. Several P.O.W.s (Prisoners of War) from WWII came as well as Loretta Swit, the actress who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Hoolihan in the television incarnation of M*A*S*H. The audience also watched a documentary on prisoners of war called “Never the Same.”

The play will be performed the 24th, 25th and 27th. Come out and buy tickets!

CAST:

Hawkeye………………………. Tyler Wann

Duke………………………………… Trey Box

Trapper……………………… Jack McBride

Blake……………………………. Seth Lenoir

Burns……………… Daniel Hayes Brister

Father Mulcahy……………. JP Gathings

Radar………………… John William Creel

Ugly………………………….Rhodes Skelton

Devine…………………. Lawson Marchetti

Ho-Jon……………………….. Charlie Davis

Lopez……………………..  Bradley Hydrick

Waldowski (Walt)…………..Gregor Patti

General Hammond…………. Matt Gross

Dean Mercy Lodge…….Macy Richardson

Janice……………………….. Claire Parrish

Margaret……………….. Jennifer Roberts

Nancy…………………… Hannah Plunkett

Louise…………………………… Olivia Flynt

Bridget……………………………… Brianne Powers

Congresswoman Goldfarb….. Madeleine Porter

Oliver Wendal Jones…………… Jordan Barclay

Mitzi…………………………………………. Emily Box

Fritzi…………………………… Michelle Daschbach

Agnes…………………………………………….. Claire Porter

Haskell………………………………………….. Leah Thomas

Randazzle……………………………………….. Anna Jordan

Liebowitz……………………………….. Lauren Henderson

Korean Woman #1…………………………… Alex Reichle

Korean Woman #2………………………….. Lily Garretson

GIs, Koreans and Medical Personnel    

       Olivia Wann, Shelby Pinnix, Sara Simmons, and

        Anna Kat Ireland

Set Crew

       Stage Manager: Madeleine Porter

        Emily Michael, Julia Payne, Tommie Jo Barnett,

        Xavier Keys, and Katie Flannigan