2009 Hall of Fame Night
Kickapoo Theatre Hall of Fame Members
KIM CROSBY
Kickapoo High School alumnus Kim Crosby was born July 11, 1960, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. While attending Kickapoo, she was named America’s Junior Miss and starred in the role of Laurie in Oklahoma on the KHS Stage. Ms. Crosby is well known for her Broadway performances in Follies, Jerry’s Girls, and Guys and Dolls. She originated the role of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods in 1987 and can be heard on the Grammy Award winning original cast album. Off-Broadway credits include Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard and Jane Seymore in Six Wives, and Marsius in Philamon, both productions at the York Theatre. Television credits include Jane Porter in Tarzan in Manhattan (CBS); The Cosby Murder Mysteries (NBC); The Guiding Light (CBS); All My Children (ABC); and a long list of commercials. A popular Pops performer, Crosby has performed with many orchestras in the U.S. and overseas. Ms. Crosby lives in Springfield, Missouri, with her husband and three children.
JO ALICE GILLIHAN
Mrs. Jo Alice Gillihan first led drama at Springfield's Central High School, where she taught students to fly in Peter Pan. After seeing the performance local elementary students tried "flying" from the steps of Central Auditorium's entrance. She encouraged greater student participation by recruiting unlikely stage hands from seventh period study hall. Moving to Kickapoo in 1974, Mrs. Gillihan directed productions such as South Pacific and Bye, Bye Birdie. Later she taught English and Humanities at KHS.
DR. SANDRA HOUSE
Dr. Sandra House taught drama in high school for 23 years, seven at Kickapoo. While at Kickapoo, she directed The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls (twice), Oklahoma, Annie, and Bye, Bye Birdie. She has directed more than 30 musicals and numerous plays in schools and churches, as well as acting in television and radio commercials. She received her doctorate from Tulsa University, has taught speech at MSU for 8 years, and received Missouri's Outstanding Teacher Award from the Speech Association of Missouri.
JANICE JOHNSON
Providing experience in all aspects of theatre was an important part of Janice Johnson's tenure at KHS. She directed musicals Oklahoma, Lil' Abner, Carousel, The Music Man, Oklahoma, Anything Goes, and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, as well as many plays. Under her guidance, the drama department staged 6 productions each year and even toured with children's shows her students wrote. Ms. Johnson has performed in a wide variety of television shows, films, commercials, and theater productions across the United States.
STERLING MACER
Sterling “Bobby” Macer, Jr., was born in Springfield, Missouri, November 28, 1963. As an active member of the Kickapoo Drama Department, Sterling starred as the lead in The Great All-American Musical Disaster, and as Snoopy in A Charlie Brown Christmas. “We made his ears out of white socks,” reminisced his former drama teacher, Janice Johnson. Since graduating from Kickapoo in 1982, Macer has appeared in a wide variety of television and film roles including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Harts of the West, Double Take, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NYPD Blue, 24, JAG, CSI: Miami, Veronica Mars, and Lincoln Heights. He received the Urbanworld Film Festival Audience Award for Park Day in 1998.
BRAD PITT
1982 Kickapoo graduate Brad Pitt was born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. At Kickapoo he was a member of the golf, tennis, and swimming teams, as well as the Key and Forensics clubs, and he participated in school government. He also performed in the school productions notably in Carousel and The Music Man. After graduation, Pitt studied at the University of Missouri before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Pitt’s first acting work came in television, appearing in episodes of Dallas, Another World, 21 Jump Street, Head of the Class, and Growing Pains. His film career began with the 1989 horror film Cutting Class, and he quickly became a house-hold name with such films as Thelma and Louise, A River Runs Through It, Interview With the Vampire, and Legends of the Fall. He has made more than 40 films, playing a wide variety of roles to critical acclaim. Pitt is also a celebrity activist and philanthropist, establishing foundations to aid humanitarian causes in the United States and around the world.
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