Parents of drama students answer to another curtain.(Entertainment)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | April 14, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard

What a difference a year makes.

Last year about this time, Mary Huls, director of the youth-oriented Spotlight Theatre in Pleasant Hill, practically was dragging some of her students' parents onto the stage to do a play.

This year, she can't hold them back.

"They're having way too much fun," Huls says with a laugh.

Sparking the merriment is "Drop Dead," Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore's 1985 screwball who-done-it farce, which Spotlight Theatre will open Thursday.

"Drop Dead" is ...

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