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Show .! - " " .-. : ..." I' ., ! -- . " " . i, i '. ' .. . J- '4 , -' ' " t i ; ; . . ; " ? ; i V, - -s ' v ( ' f , y4 , . T7rw-:wr , ' v ' t " : !.- ' .'..- - m ' ' "'-,.. , i i ; , -- .w . '- The fair Bertha (Beth Heggeness) is threatened by the evil Egbert Van Horn (Ron Dickerson) as heroic Jack Dalton (Curt Stewart) prepares to assault the vulian ana defend her honor. The melodrama will be presented again this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Star Hall. Melodrama opened summer season with Friday-Saturday Friday-Saturday performances By Bill Davis Summer melodramas have come to brighten Moab's scene, courtesy of the Moab Community Theatre and Chamber of Commerce. The season's first offering is "Curse You, Jack Dalton." The one-act play will be presented pre-sented again this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Action in the play centers cen-ters around a blossoming love affair (chaste, of course) between the stalwart, stal-wart, idealized boy scout-type scout-type hero Jack Dalton and the Dalton family maid, the incandescently pure Bertha Blair. The two main characters are played play-ed by Curt Stewart and Beth Heggeness. Stewart makes an admirable, if slightly macho, Jack Dalton, Dal-ton, occasionally stooping to actual physical violence (mercy!) to thwart the forces of evil determined to torpedo his marriage to Bertha. In spite of this, his bravery is unquestioned, and the audience could not cheer for a more worthy hero. Ms. Heggeness is excellent ex-cellent as the maid in distress (sorry, bad joke), who seems to attract disaster dis-aster by virtue of her virtue, which is pristine enough to blind us mere mortals. Of course, all this goodness good-ness would be boring without villains. The baddies bad-dies are well represented by Ron Dickerson as the unspeakably nasty Egbert Van Horn and Jean Roberts, Rob-erts, who turns in an excellent performance as the sinister Anna Alvara-do. Alvara-do. As might be expected, Van Horn is looking out for number one, and manages man-ages to hatch ever more despicable plans with every ev-ery twist of the plot, punctuating punc-tuating each with the most evil laugh this side of Flushing, New York. Anna An-na has plans to eliminate the fair Bertha to gain the hand of Jack Dalton. Van Horn has plans to eliminate elimi-nate everyone, if it will turn a profit. His primary goal, however, is to wed Jack's giggly, gangly sister sis-ter Eloise (played superbly superb-ly by Anne McClure) and gain the Dalton fortune. The cast is rounded out by Patti Murphy as Jack's mother, and Bill Higham playing Jackson, Anna's butler. Ms. Murphy will be replaced this weekend by director Dannelle Stevens. Stev-ens. Co-director is Robert Kratz. Accentuating the action by piano is accompanist ac-companist Paul Avery, who also makes a grand entrance. An award of some sort should go to Kratz and Ms. Stevens for fantastic casting and to the entire cast for excellent . The hero is f acV villains are vile S i "g" it all floatsO eyed Bertha, new meaning totj jv, Wholesome " This is the first i i be presented by tSl mun.tyTheatreVo0; Chamber of r!L p1 this summer. the quality of Jack Dalton," Moa& zens will be k. Bering and Lfc wg into the Fall . Ifully missing shows should bet thePj left there to die of Y.atlon. waiting for. |