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Show -~---------~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ T f f l ~ o.~ Leach returns to the Utah Shakespearean Festival For actor William Leach, this season's return to the Utah Shakespearean Festival will shows a week thro~gh the season, deman.d lng a little more time than In the past. "There be like coming home to the people and places he grew to love a few seasons back. For Is more work to do, but there arc different demands with the different parts. The time many staff members and theatre goers, it will be like welcoming home a member of the evens out from part to part and gets divided out fairly." family. Once the most hectic part of the season ls behind him and the schedule becomes somewhat routine, Leach and his wife plan on visiting the nearby mountains and Leach, who Is best remembered for his performance as Willy Loman In the Festival's 1991 production of Death ofa Salesman, is returning this seasonfor three very national parks they grew to love. "I'm coming to work and tovacatlon when I can, but different parts. Susan's coming just for the vacation. When there Is some breathing time, we Intend to use It," His biggest assignment is the role of Crestwell the butler In Noel Coward's Relative Values . He will also play the he said. As Leach plans for the coming season, he parts of Lafeu in All's Well that Ends Well and Cardinal continues to reminisce about his past experiences at the Pandulph in Kingfolm. Festival. "One of the most exciting parts of the work In Cedar City Is the personal engagement we had with the It's been five years since Leach has been at the Festival, audiences. The seminars and Elderhostel groups gave us and he says the return is a welcome one. "It's been awhile and I'm sure I will notice many changes. But coming back opportunities to meet with the people. It gave a great to Cedar City Is like coming home. I still know many of sense of self.worth and a chance to more personally give the people and I'm looking forward to reacquainting something back to them. It was a very Important time for myself with them. I am looking forward to many me," he said. · reunions, " he said. In his three years with the Festival, he became Leach's first experience at the Festival was in 1991 acquainted with many of the patrons and continued to • correspond with them, even after returning to his home In when he shared the stage with his wife, Susan Sweeney in Death of a Salesman . The couple returned a ycar1atcr, Delaware. " I would not hesitate to say, after this length of when Leach played Shylock in The Mercha1ll of Ven fee time, 1 did realize how much I missed spending my summers with the Festival. It's a real treat for me.to come and Gloucester in King Leai·, and Sweeney had parts In back,· he said. "I have found that working In Cedar City Is three productions. In 1993 they were back, with Leach as the director of Our Town and as Herbert Dean In The not just walking In and doing the play, then leaving. The Royal Family. Sweeney played In Our Town and Tartuffe Patricia Fraser (left),jeannie Naughton, and Conan experience Is much longer lasting." that year. · McCarthy in 'Relative Values., Leach says his fond memories of the Utah Shakespearean "That first year, we were hired primarily for Death of a Festival and his excitement to return arc a trlburc to the Salesman . It was an Interesting thing. At the first of the organization and Its audiences. "They set a high priority to season, the audience kind of shied away from It, but through the summer, the audience hire hard working, creative people who continue to make a quality production that grew because of the kind of production it was. and it turned out to be a blockbuster," people want to experience," he said. Leach said. " It was very awe-inspiring to be involved in that kind of a play and also to be In the five years Leach has spent away from the Festival, he has directed and acted In in the center of such beautiful scenery. Add to that the wonderful audiences we found a number of plays at venues from the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre to the Indiana at the Festival and the outpouring of love we got from them, and that first year was very Repertory Thcatr~, to the Delaware Theatre Company. In 1994; he worked with special for us. When we came back the next two years, our expectations were raised another Festival alum; director John Neville Andrews In a production of A Winter's even higher and our love continued to grow for the Festival and for Cedar City, " he Tale. Most recently, he appeared In a pair of one-man productions of A Christmas Ca,.ol said. and Shylock. Now he's just counting the days to the opening of this year's season In This year, playing the part In Relative Values makes his return even sweeter. " I am Cedar City. "I can honestly say life Is good; I'm healthy and happy, and I can hardly wait to come back to the Festival. I'm looking forward to renewing old friendships and very much looking forward to doing the Coward play. It's the perfect part for me, and I hopefully making a lot of new ones." Tickets arc available by calling 586-7878. think I'll enjoy it very much." With his other two parts, I.each will appear In eight &Company Tl1a11l{ You Cedar City f01.. 1Vlal{i11g l Ts #1 ! Full Service Salon Including: Hair• Nails • Waxing • Permanent Makeup • Electrolysis r----------:----, $5 OFF I Deluxe manicures and pedicures• Fiberglass• UV gel• Ear piercing• Makeovers Pink and white acrylics • Choose from 1500 colors FULL SET: . $2 OFF : FILL ! 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