Jim Amidon, April 25 — The curtain had fallen on the Wabash College Theater production of The Braggart Soldier on Friday night. The large crowd in Ball Theater, which had spent the better part of two hours laughing at the slapstick performances, clapped in appreciation as the cast emerged, one by one, for the curtain call.
Big applause for the lead players — guys like Matt McKay and Denis Farr and Dickie Winters — and then came Janathan Grandoit, a minor, but very funny character. Grandoit played a servant forced to dress as a woman… and took his curtain call wearing a bridal gown.
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With the crowd still cheering, Grandoit invited his longtime girlfriend, Delphia Flenar, a Butler University student, to join him on stage. And there, in a white wedding gown, he got down on his knee and asked her to marry him. The cast surrounded the couple, throwing confetti and the crowd roared with delight. Every recent bride in the house was crying, even some women married 20 years.
Grandoit will go to work this summer for AFLAC in Indianapolis, while his bride-to-be finishes up at Butler. They’ll be married after her graduation.
Imagine that a student with a only bit part — a servant no less — could steal the show at a Friday night performance. And do so at the curtain call when the play had ended. Congratulations to Janathan and Delphia.
Only at Wabash.
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