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Show 10 Signpost -Tuesday, May 7, 1985 Local boy dances to stardom by Gretchen Eldridgc Contributing Writer Ten-year-old Ryan Webb of Morgan, Utah, saw a great potential for having' some fun, if only he could convince his mom that he was too sick to go to school. "Mom, can I stay home from school today? I'm so sick. Anyway, Jodi doesn't have to go." Jodi is Ryan's seven-year-old sister, who on this particular day was in Orem, starring in a Lagoon comercial. Ryan had no idea of the adventure he was about to undergo. He was allowed to stay home from school. Being the only one home, the house seemed to grow larger and larger. At first, he wondered if anyone at school missed him, and then began wondering what he was missing at school. Ryan's mother was helping Jodi with the Lagoon commercial, and noticed that they were filming a-Taco Time commercial next door. "They were having a terrible time with the boy they had selected for the main part. He was supposed to walk in backwards. He couldn't get the part right," said Mrs. Webb. Mrs. Webb took this opportunity to speak up and mention that her son, Ryan, had just won a break-dancing contest. "The producer just looked at me strangely, and then told me anything was worth a try, and to get Ryan here within the next hour," said Mrs. Webb. Ryan was at home deciding that he really was sick when his father dashed into the house. Ryan's father told him to get into his break-dancing clothes as there was a chance he could be in a television commercial. Ryan arrived with his father right on time. He could feel the blood running through his veins as he fearlessly walked up on stage and started to break-dance for his baffled audience. All that could be heard was his squeaky tennis shoes sliding across the stage. The producer knew he was perfect for the part. Ryan was the new star of the Taco Time commercial, an immediate success.Ryan's commercial will soon be on the air. Utah Ballet presents concert Concluding a season that has seen Utah Ballet performances in Colorado, Arizona, California, and Utah, the company will present its annual spring concert May 17-18," 1985, at 8 p.m. in Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus. This concert, traditionaly the high point of the Utah Ballet's season, will year be dedicated to the late Lew Christensen, artistic director and co-founder of the company. In honor of Christensen, Utah Ballet has added his ballet JINX to its repertory. JINX is a ballet in one act with music by Benjamin Britten ("Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge"). Since its 1942 premiere in New York City, JINX has been performed by New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Set in the world of a small circus troupe, JINX is a ballet that weaves together, through superstition and misfortune, the lives of the circus performers; the clown, the ringmaster and the tattooed lady. Jackson's ballet ARENA is set to Claude Boiling's "Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jass Piano Trio." This abstract ballet shows the variety of today's dance vocabulary through different styles of ballet, jazz and modern dance. Also on the program will be Elizabeth Nesi's DA'IRAH or the circle, which was recently performed by Utah Ballet at the 1985 American College Dance Festival, held in Los Angeles at UCLA. Nesi's ballet is a motion study with an emphasis on the movement possibilities of hula hoops. For this concert, Utah Ballet Master, Li Chou Cheng, will restage SPRING WATERS a pas de deux from the repertory of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. This bravura display of classical ballet technique will feature Utah Ballet dancers Suzanne Metelko and Thomas Scott. Tickets are available by calling Kingsbury Hall at 581-7100 and are priced at $5 for adults and $3 for students, children and senior citizens. The Ogden L.D.S. Institute presents: Horizons In Thought Doris To.ggo.rt Businesswomen, lecturer, ' humorist j Friday, may lO, 1985 1 12:30 p.m. 1302 Edvalson Institute Chapel sum f i '', PK . V V Weber State Theatre has been hard at work to make Arms and the Man a success. ia'Min.s pliotobnc Uinsk'iiscn Remaining performances run from Thursday May 8 to Saturday May 11. Shepard's Fool for Love staged The Salt Lake Acting Company will present Fool for Love, by Sam Shepard, May 9 through June 1. It is their final play of the 1984-85 season. The play is about two lovers, Eddie and May. Eddie travels 2,480 miles to a motel room on the edge of the Mo-jave Desert to find May. He wants to move to Wyoming and raise chickens. May hates chickens. But Martin arrives, wanting to take May to the movies, and discovers some dark family secrets. Other characters in the plot include an old man who falls in love with Barbara Mandrell. Members of the cast include: Leah Robling as May, Michael Swain as Ed die, Michael McGlone as Martin and Gene Pack as the old man. Playwright Sam Shepard is one of the most important contemporary American playwrights today. He has written over 40 plays and won 10 Obie Awards, one Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for Buried Child, and an Oscar nomination- in 1984 for his part as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. The play will run May 9 through June 1, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for $8.50. For reservations, call the Salt Lake Acting Company box office at 363-0525, Monday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m. This Week Only ! We are overstocked on selected top quality books Save 50 Many titles to choose from. Weber State Bookstore BUIL DlflG ' BElOmE |