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Show Shakespeare Festival Mid-way of Most Successful Run The fifth annual Utah Shakespearean Shakes-pearean Festival, at the midway point at the conclusion of Wednesday Wed-nesday evening's performance, Is enjoying its most successful year in terms of attendance. Ticket sales have remained brisk through the first and one one-half weeks of the Festival plays and indications are that the final week and one-half will do equally as well as a number of groups are coming to Cedar City to witness the three productions. pro-ductions. Each of the three plays, "The Taming of the Shrew," "Julius Caesar", and "The Two Gentlemen Gentle-men of Verona", have been staged stag-ed three times with three remaining re-maining performances in the 19C6 schedule. Presented in nightly rotation on the enlarged Elizabethan Tiring Tir-ing House stage on the College of Southern Utah campus, the remaining scehdule as as follows: fol-lows: "The , Taming of the Shrew," Thursday, July 21, Monday, July 25, and Thursday, July 28. "Julius Caesar," Friday, July 22; Tuesday, July 26 and Friday, July 29. "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Saturday, July 23; Wednesday, July 27 and Saturday, July 30. An important part of the Festival Fes-tival are the musicians and dancers dan-cers who contribute to the pre-play pre-play activity as minstrels strolling stroll-ing through Cedar City's downtown down-town area prior to the play, and authentic dancing on the green to establish an Elizabethan atmosphere at-mosphere each evening. This year's cast, like the Festival Fes-tival itself, has more experience, adding to the quality of the Festival Fes-tival that has grown with the success at the box office. All In all those directing the Festival activities have indicated their wisdom in the establishment establish-ment of the Festival, but borrow-ing borrow-ing from the program itself the potential of the Festival is far from filled. ". . It is to the next five years that the Festival and those associated with it must turn. This year . . . the Festival has mounted its Tiring House on a new and enlarged platform . . Still this stage is temporary, and even though a vast improvement must serve as a reminder of the dream of the Utah Shakespearean Shakespear-ean Festival: a permanent outdoor out-door auditorium and stage.'" ". . . This then must be the goal of the Festival in the next five years," the program states. |