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Show SECTION SUNDAY, JUNE 1, EDITOR I... I 1 3 t tjii I f.i .V 344-255- 3 i '4 , ' eandrusheraldextra.com f ; vi .... LACOMBE BRIQITTE BoneauBryan-Brown- Elyssa Andrus 2008 V 0 Inc. Peter Gallagher in a scene from, "The Country Girl." Ever since New York City banned smoking in enclosed public spaces, theater V directors have been walking a thin line between artistic freedom and legal necessity. Butt out? Not on Broadway Photos by MARIO RUIZDaily Sean O'Driscoll THE ASSOCIATED , PRESS In the first NEW YORK scene of "The Country Girl" at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, actor Peter Gallagher stabs a cigarette in the air to make a point or two. Lucas Caleb Rooney, who plays a theater manager, puffs nervously on a cigarette and listens. Chip Zien, who portrays a calculating theater producer, draws slowly on a cigar as he watches Gallagh- er's impassioned speech. Soon they are joined by Remy ceneChaxi ge New home awaits community theater in Springville long-live- d writ- Auberjonois' earnest, young er, who trails his own cigarette across stage. Within minutes, g they collectively send a pillow of smoke wafting into the audience at the revival of the Clifford Odets 1950s classic actor trying about a washed-ufor a comeback. The show's star, Morgan Freeman, said from the first rehearsal that he didn't want to smoke, "That's OK," said stage manager Barclay Stiff. "His part doesn't specifically call for smoking. There's plenty of smoke to go around as it is." Cody Clark daily herald .:7T;y sweet-smellin- "The Country' Girl" is not sweet-smellin- Lon-gac- re -- d Tony-nominat- "South Pacific." "You will hear people coughing their lungs out on purpose as soon as an actor lights a single . cigarette." In a "South Pacific" production that has insisted on historic accu1940s racy, having a smoking-fre- e seemed ludicrous. "There's no ; See SMOKING, C5 Art City Playhouse. year ago, the future p alone in setting the mood with cigarettes this season: It's light-u- p time on and Ever since 2003 when New York City banned smoking in enclosed public spaces, theater directors have been walking a thin line between artistic freedom and legal necessity. Under a special exemption for the arts, theaters are allowed to use tobacco-fre- e g usually cigarettes herbal cigarettes. On stage at "South Pacific" in Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, GIs slap each other on the back as they light up at wilL at the In "Boeing-Boeing- " Theatre, Christine Baranski sensuously ignites a cigarette that can be whiffed in the balcony's back rows. In "Good Boys and True'" at off Broadway's Second Stage Theatre, Kellie Overbey brings back the 1980s with the pull of a cigarette. In "The Four of at Manhattan Us," Theatre Club, two guys puff heavily as they discuss their lives. smoke How does second-hanin theaters affect audience members? Some aren't bothered at all. Vincent Cali, a Texan who recently saw "The Country Girl," is forgiving, noting that the smell cleared quickly after the initial blast. "It goes with the '50s," he said with the shrug. But while herbal smoke generally doesn't linger on the audience as much as the tobacco equivalent, theater staff admit that some audience members see it as an intrusion from a less socially aware time. "In a small theater, or where the audience surrounds the stage, the audience is always out of control as soon as a cigarette is pulled out," says Stiff . "Some people really do get worked up," reports Bartlett Sher, the director of the Herald "Hello, Dolly!" director Robinne Booth front and cast pose for a photo while singing a musical number from the play at the Springville Playhouse on Thursday. "Hello, Dolly!" opens June 6 with shows Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. untilJune 28. Springville bought the property, built in 1927 as the Rivoli of Spring- .ville Playhouse was up in the air as Springville city planners contemplated new physical locations for the public library and the city offices long-nmnin- Theater, from local theatrical producers Gavin and Sharilyn Grooms in January. Following Nyle Smith plays Horace Vandergelder and Jennifer Pusey plays Irene Molloy during rehearsals ' for "Hello, Dolly!'' at the Springville Playhouse on Thursday com- g munity theater has performed in a basement auditorium at the library for decades. Now Springville is moving forward with" its building projects, but there won't be any need for a "Save Our Playhouse" campaign. Springville Playhouse will live on in the historic building at 254 S. Main St. that most recently housed the If you go I What: "Hello, Dolly!" at Springville Playhouse I When: Performances Friday-Jun- e 28 on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays at 7:30 p.m. . I Where: Springville Playhouse, Springville Public Library, 50 S. Main St., Springville I Tickets: $8 general admission, $7 children and seniors, $35 families (6 or fewer) I Info: or www. springvilleplayhouse.org 427-931- 8 Springville Playhouse will become a key tenant, possibly as soon as in 2009. "It will be a really good move f or us and an opporunity to expand and have more exposure," said actress and director Robinne Booth, a long-tim- e Springville Playhouse mover and shaker who's also the office manager at the Hale Center Theater Orem. See THEATER, C2 New York's Original Kazoo Co. stays true to name tion as the business changed hands over the years, it didn't last. ' "It really would kind of spoil the The name of the . fun of coming here if you couldn't see EDENj N. Y. place says it all: The Original Kazoo things as they were," Karen Smith Co. And, boy, do its owners mean said as she scanned the factory floor, now more working museum than original. The same belt and pulley machines manufacturing facility. "It's wonderful for our country to know that long that stamped and shaped the world's first metal kazoos circa 1900 still ago, they invented this way of manuDAVID DUPREYAssociated Press stamp and shape kazoos today. The facturing and it still works today." machines are still in the same building, The Original Kazoo Co. operates on Karen Smith plays a kazoo at the Original Kazoo Co., in Eden, N.Y., on sound Main Street in a farm town southwest May 14. The plant itself opened in 1907 as a sheet metal worfeshop began making the same as they perforate, fold and shape. of Buffalo known as much for its making kazoos in 1916. The finished product hasn't yearly conn festival as kazoos. submaThe plant opened in 1907 as a sheet changed, either. The palm-sizerine-shaped musical instrument still metal workshop, producing stove and wooden instrument that had been zoo: "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" makes a tinny vibration when somefurnace parts and peanut vending and "I've Been Working on the Railaround since the 1840s. one hums into it. road." Inside her gift shop, Smith demonmachines. It began making kazoos in If there was ever a temptation to 1916 after its owner was approached strates the songs heard most often modernize the g about creating a metal version of the when adult visitors get hold of a ka See KAZOO, C2 opera Carolyn Thompson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . k kazoo-makin- "WWW.HERALbEXTRA.COM'CALL"57S-5l0- T6 SUBSCRIBE'" |