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Show PARK RECORD SECTION D Page B6 Thursday, October 22, 1987 MBfflEILIKBIHnr TV 45 expands programming, offers local flavor When the FCC began giving out licenses for low-powered television stations, the intent was to create more accessibility for local television televi-sion production. For the most part, the result has been to flood the airwaves with "Adam's Family" re-runs and telemarketing tele-marketing scams. In Park City, however, TV 45 offers of-fers television produced for, by and about locals. Beginning Nov. 2, the station will begin publishing a regular schedule, making its programming pro-gramming more accessible. When Bill Coleman launched the station, which began broadcasting in the middle of October, 1986, his goal was to fill a gap he saw in local media. "T.V. has always fascinated me. I see a lot of things in town that weren't getting covered because there is no way of bringing these IF K 3ET . . T & St a? C3 Cass Montana listens as Lynn facing animal control officers. Arts Council sponsors meeting Carol Nixon, Executive Director of the Utah Arts Council. The UAC is an organization designed to help artists bring their work to the public. Park City Museum draws crowds, hopes to double '86 figures The Park City Museum has received receiv-ed over 56,000 visitors in the past nine months. At this rate of visitation, visita-tion, Mike Brubaker, director of the Historical Society, expects to double the number of guests from last year's total of 35,000. There are several reasons for the increased visitation rate in the Main Street Museum. Probably the greatest reason for the high rate is the museum's greater visibility. In the past nine months, the museum has created new signs to advertise the entrance to the building. In addition, the museum has expanded its public outreach programs in effort to make more people aware of the resources things to life on radio or paper," said Coleman. That's quite a goal bringing to life a community which is so small and so vital, on television. Couch potatoes may revolt, but TV 45 is producing some interesting local viewing. The station's masthead is the Park City Today show. Currently, Today is shown live at noon, and it is rebroadcast in the evening. After November 2, the program will be broadcast at 7 a.m. The switch is bound to bring some barbed complaints from regular co-host co-host Glenn Steigmeyer, whose banter with co-host Cass Montana provides witty, colloquial insights into the day's news. The program follows a newsmagazine news-magazine format, featuring interviews inter-views on topics of local or general in Slack, animal shelter employee, The Utah Arts Council has invited arts enthusiasts, arts educators, local officials, and state legislators from Summit, Wasatch, and Morgan counties to gather Oct. 27 for an Arts Town Meeting at the historic Summit Sum-mit County Courthouse in Coalville. The Coalville Arts Town Meeting is the fifth in a series of 13 statewide public hearings initiated last month to gather information oand ideas for the Utah Arts Council's future planning plann-ing as well as to inform the public about its many programs and services. ser-vices. The Arts Town Meeting in Coalville will begin at 7 p.m. in the upstairs courtroom of the old Summit Sum-mit County Courthouse and will conclude con-clude by 9 p.m. The council decided to hold the meeting in Coalville because it is centrally located for the three counties. During a planned break, atendees will have an opportunity to network with arts advocates from other areas or to talk one on one with council coun-cil staff about their individual needs. To date, about 130 arts supporters from Kane, Garfield, Washington, Iron, Cache, Box Elder, Daggett, Duchesne, Uinta, and Tooele counties coun-ties have met with Arts Council Chair Marcia Price and Executive Director Carol Nixon to tell them about the rewards and frustrations involved in creating arts events both in rural and metropolitan areas. Invitations to the Oct. 27 meeting were mailed to artists, arts educators, community arts ad available from the museum. The public outreach programs conducted by the museumstaff are considered successful in their efforts to attract more people to the museum. In recent months, the staff has deyeloped a museum tour for the local schools. Already, nearly 250 students from the fourth and second grades have traveled through the museum as part of the tour. The museum staff has also developed a slidelecture program on the history of Park City. This program is geared toward audiences au-diences composed primarily of visiting conventioneers. The museum has also instigated two new exhibits on Park City. First, the museum co-sponsored the spec terest interspersed with locally produced pro-duced features. Locals may have already spotted some of TV 45's corps of volunteers interviewing and filming around town. They're at most events, and sometimes they're just out talking to folks. A key word, of course, in that last paragraph is, "volunteers." Like so many Park City ventures, TV 45 has depended upon the volunteer spirit of the community, according to Coleman. Col-eman. The small station, which can't expect ex-pect to make money for a couple years, has only three paid employees. Mary Bailey, executive producer; Brian Louk, technical director, and Debbie Douglas, advertising director, constitute the station's payroll. TV 45's crew list is much longer. Frankie Haag and Jonathan 0 ' Ron Georg explains the problems vocates, state and local elected officials of-ficials and other interested people, inviting them to bring questions and concerns directly to the council. The council invites everyone concerned with the arts to attend, Nixon said. Several Park City organizations, including the Kimball Art Center, Park City Performances, Writers at Work, and KPCW radio are grantees of the Utah Arts Council, and some of the town's visual artists have exhibited ex-hibited in UAC shows. The director explained that the Arts Town Meetings are the first step in a long-range process. "We are going to the people to listen to their needs before we set our future agenda." The Utah Arts Council is an 88-year-old state agency that offers an array of services to help individual in-dividual artists, arts organizations, and arts educators statewide. The council brings traveling visual arts exhibitions to com munities, sponsors a statewide performing per-forming arts tour, gives grants to nonprofit groups which sponsor arts events, has a design arts program, helps bring artists into the schools, and give technical training to people to help them create arts events unique uni-que to their locales. The council also sponsors statewide visual arts exhibitions, the prestigious Utah Original Writing Competition, as well as documenting and encouraging folk and ethnic traditional artists throughout the state. tacular Pop Jenks photo exhibit at the Kimball Art Center last month. The museum also features a new mining display, which is a copy of the inside of a mine. The mining display is more permanent than the Jenks exhibit it should be here three years. Future programs for the museum and its governing body, the Park City Ci-ty Historical Society, include the annual an-nual membership party. The celebration, scheduled for Oct. 30, includes an evening of dinner at the Yarrow Hotel, in Park City, and live theater at the Egyptian Theatre. For the $20 admission fee, renewal of membership to the Park City Historical Society is also included. i I I -rrrr. j? -rsp. , ' l H1 ' Mary Bailey, executive producer, offers Glenn Steigmeyer before going on air. Walther are standing by to co-host the show in place of Montana or Steigmeyer. Producing features, those little taped sections on Today, the station has Karri Hayes, Judy Zenger, and Tom Willett. Sue Badami lines up the interviews for the show. Technical assistance is provided by Ann Emde and Todd Matsuda, who are building on the work of a former employee, Bruce Bach. Aside from this core staff of volunteers, people from all over Park City have donated their time to TV 45, generating enough local programming pro-gramming to allow the station to expand ex-pand its format and provide consistent consis-tent scheduling. Park City City Planner Myles Rademan has already produced a number of shows in a series titled, "Future Focus." In it, Rademan in Standing, from left: Amy Mayne as Frenchy, Marsha Miller as Rizzo, and Sheri Lynn Winkel as Jan. Seated is Jolyn Spencer as Marty. Park City Performances presents: IS REGIES "Grease," Park City Performance's Perfor-mance's first offering of the season, and first performance since Ed Britt took over as general manager of the Egyptian Theatre, opens Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. Britt has been enthusiastic about the play from the start, since the auditions were flooded wit,h aspiring actors. He said there were around fifty people trying for the sixteen parts. The play basically has four leads, Danny, Sandy, Patty, and Rizzo. Accompanied Ac-companied by their respective cliques, cli-ques, the lead characters create a playful, amusing, musical look at the fifities. Playing Danny, the leader of the leather-clad, D.A.-haired "Burger Palace Boys," John Durrant will have a chance to strut about with greaser pride. He'll also have to show some teenage tenderness, however, since he's falling in love with Sandy, one of the other leads. Sandy, played by Ruth Ann Fitzgerald Fit-zgerald of Park City, is a new girl at Rydell High, where the play takes place. Over the summer, before she starts her first semester at Rydell, she engages in a romance with a boy t rr r ?a: ma ....... - . - Jfc- A. Ak- N " - L.-. AVf;VUfe - . terviews local people who are responsible for future growth in the area. The station will feature travel program, pro-gram, with Shirley Smith, a well-traveled well-traveled local, and a cooking program pro-gram featuring various residents with a gourmet flair. The station will also continue to cover city council meetings, and Park City football games in their entirety. en-tirety. The expansion of the station's scope coincides, of course, with the beginning of ski season. Coleman hopes to catch the early rising skier as well as residents waking wak-ing for work. Toward that end, the station will provide information for both, including in-cluding ski reports, school information, informa-tion, general weather (which always includes regional comments from S-J she never expects to see again, Danny. Dan-ny. Sandy is advised against the relationship rela-tionship by the ever-cynical Rizzo, played by Marsha Miller, who is the leader of the "Pink Ladies," a more feminine version of the "Burger Palace Boys." v. : -sr: m r: wjgj. v. m h i t. i . ..at- .Ar - j k - . . MS. .-T some last minute advice no"uu,M the co-hosts), and road information. At 8:30, every evening, the station again hopes to please both crowds by featuring ski flicks. The movies will range from Warren Miller to "Avalanche" some will be good, some will be ridiculous, but all should be entertaining. With its expansion, the station will constantly be looking for volunteers to help produce material. Some people peo-ple are interns from the University of Utah, and others are simply people peo-ple who consider video production a hobby. Coleman said he would be happy to look at home-produced footage as well, even half-inch, so long as it comes complete with written copy and soundtrack. A full schedule of TV 45's new lineup line-up will be published in next week's "Record." Competing for Danny's affection, with cheerleader coquettishness, is Patty, played by Lori Clark-Erickson Clark-Erickson of Park City. Backstage, director Rafael Colon Castanera will be keeping an eye on the action. An energetic actor himself, Castanera should be adept at maintaining the pace of the spirited play. Keeping up with set changes, props, and most everything else will be Faye Giordano as stage manager. To choreograph the show, Lori Mead-Metcalf has been brought up from Salt Lake. The lighting design is provided by Chika Kormura. Finally, as well as holding down a lead rule, Ruth Ann Fitzgerald is in charge of costume design. Tickets for this Park City version of the Broadway musical are available at the Adventure Center on Main Street, the Kimball Arts Center, Smith-Tix, or at the Egyptian Egyp-tian box office an hour prior to showtime. Tickets are $7 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, and $5 for children 12 and under. ssj" . k. r |
