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Show "Blithe Spirit" presented at SUSC place in the late 1930s, early 1940s," Phillip said, "with the set decorated in art nouveau, a type of architecture ar-chitecture popular at that time," Mark Blackham, a junior theater arts major from St. George, is the stage manager for "Blithe Spirit." Another junior theater arts major, Dale Young, Hurricane, will be in charge of special effects. In addition to making books fall off shelves, pianos play and several other mysterious happenings, Young will play the role of Doctor Bradman for the SUSC spring quarter production. The role of Charles Con-domine Con-domine for the 1980 performance per-formance will be played by Wayne Goulding, a junior theater arts major from Henrieville. Ruth Con-domine Con-domine is played by Sherrie Lee Hunt, a sophomore theater arts major from Salt Lake City. Other major roles are played by Sally Hunter, a senior music major from Cedar City, as Elvira, and Linda S. Nelson, a senior theater arts major from Ogden, as the "breezy medium" Madame Arcati. "Blithe Spirit" will also include Debbie Foote, a freshman theater arts major from Nephi, as Edith, and Carolee Sanders, a freshman fresh-man from Sandy as Mrs. Bradman. "Blithe Spirit," a comedy popular with Southern Utah State College theater audiences nearly 20 years ago, is being brought back to the SUSC stage as part of the theater department's 20th anniversary celebration of campus-community theater. The Noel Coward comedy is being directed by Gary M. Mclntyre, assistant professor of theater arts, who played the role of Charles in the play when it was presented at SUSC in the early 1960s. SUSC's full-stage performance per-formance will run April 25-26, 25-26, May 1-3, beginning each evening at 8:15 p.m. in the SUSC auditorium. Tickets go on sale April 18, from 1-5 p.m. each weekday and from 1 p.m. until curtain-time each evening of performance, per-formance, at the college box office, 586-4411, extension 234. "Blithe " 'Blithe Spirit' is a very apropos choice for the 1979-80 theater season," R. Scott Phillips, theater promotions coordinator, , said. "It's in keeping with our something . old, something new theme for the department's celebration of 'Twenty Years of Great Theater'." "The long running Broadway and London stage hit is a very familiar one to members of the SUSC theater department," Phillips said. "Mclntyre performed it in aas a college undergraduate; Fred Adams played Charles in a SUSC student-faculty production; and the costumer for the play, Sandra Stiglinski, played Ruth in a production staged in Riverside, Calif." Sets and lights for the campus-community production are being designed by Timothy Paul Bryson, SUSC technical director. "The play will take |