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Semi Finals Night 5 - A Prairie Bitch & a Wildcat
Photo by Peter Greyy
(L-R Dylan Mandlsohn, Jeff Dye, Natalie Gray, Allison Arngrim, Paul Myrehaug's Herve Villechaise impression, Kermet Apio, Tyler Boe)
OK, OK, don't get up in arms about the header. Here's the explanation: At many of the venues we visit, we offer the hosts the opportunity to select the judges. This was the case at Central Washington University. Their choices: The Vice-President of the student government; a professor of Health Sciences; and - here's where it gets interesting - school mascot Wellington Wildcat in full costume; and actress/comedian Allison Arngrim. Yes, Nellie Olson from "Little House on the Prairie." She was in town, having performed her one-woman show "Memoirs of a Prairie Bitch" the night before, and not only consented to judge but even got up and did the "stall set" at the end of the show while we tabulated the scores.
Wellington didn't offer.
Interestingly, only Geoff Brousseau even acknowledged his existence, tossing out the borscht-belt-ish "nice of you to dress up for the show, sir" as a throwaway non-sequitur early in his set.
Everybody else treated Wellington's presence as an everyday occurence. Which, I suppose, it is at CWU.
Glad we weren't at the University of South Carolina (sports fans, write your own joke here).
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