96-04-12 OSUMB Goes to Hollywood

OHIO STATE BAND MEMBERS TO PERFORM IN HOLLYWOOD FILM

     COLUMBUS -- Seventeen Ohio State University Marching Band 
members, along with Director Jon Woods, will be traveling to Los 
Angeles on Monday, April 15, to film a scene for a Warner 
Brothers film titled "My Fellow Americans."  The movie stars 
Jack Lemmon, Dan Akroyd, James Garner, and Lauren Bacall and is 
about a presidential election.  The students, all squad leaders 
in the 1996 Marching Band, will be in a scene with Lemmon, who 
plays the candidate from Ohio.

     Ken McCoy, a graduate student and arranger for the Marching 
Band, has written a version of "Hot Time in the Old Town 
Tonight" to be performed in the film, and the group will also be 
prepared to play "Fight the Team Across the Field" and "Hang 
on Sloopy."  The amount of music used will be determined during 
the shooting.

     "This is an exciting opportunity for these students to be 
on the set of a major Hollywood film," said Woods.  The band 
members will fly to the west coast on Monday, shoot their scene 
Tuesday, and return to Columbus on Wednesday.  Ohio State's Los 
Angeles Alumni Club will host the group during its brief stay.

     Financial support for the trip is being provided by four 
prominent band boosters:  Ohio State University Board of Trustees 
Chair Ambassador Milton A. Wolf, Vice Chair Leslie H. Wexner, 
Past Chair John W. Kessler, and John J. Schiff Sr., a member of 
The Ohio State University Foundation Board.

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Contact: Lois Forman Wernet, College of the Arts, (614) 292-8835.

Members of The Ohio State University Marching Band participating 
in the movie are:

Kerry Brockman, Miamisburg
Jeff Brymer, Worthington
Chris Connelly, Centerville
Holly Creech, Bellevue
Jeff Fink, Cincinnati (45241)
Tad Ignatz, Cincinnati (45240)
John Florkey, Vandalia
Jim Grove, Tiffin
Wayne Henry, Grove City
Greg Miller and Bryan Wisecup, Gahanna
Jeff Overturf and Matt Wilson, Lancaster
Steve Poast, Covington
Jeff Smith, Springfield
Angela Sparks, Chillicothe
Aaron Stidham, Richwood


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:05:53 -0400]
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