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Show - r ' fl Ik Iff (kncfc6 t & $r IS . if viif Blithe Spirit" opens Friday at SUSC. Cast members in this ghostly but hilarious comedy are: Linda S. Nelson (on couch), Wayne Goulding, Sherrie Lee Hunt and Sally Hunter(back). SUSC presents "Blithe Spirit" "Blithe Spirit," a ghostley but hilarious tale of the woes one Charles Condomine encounters when he invites an eccentric, breezy medium into his home to teach him the language of the occult, begins Friday at Southern Utah State College. Directed by Gary M. Mclntyre, the spring quarter performance will be staged twice this weekend,' then May 1-3, with curtain-time each evening at 8:15 p.m. in the SUSC auditorium. The smash comedy hit of of blocking, he says, is the use of the piano in the campus-community production. "Generally, a piano is an unused prop. In this production it will be played; it has become an intrical part of the blocking," Mclntyre Mclntyre explains. "We invite everyone to join us for our celebration of great theater at SUSC and to welcome once again Coward's delightful comedy to the campus-community repertoire," Mclntyre says. London and Broadway stages was last seen at SUSC in 1962, with Mclntyre playing Charles in a performance per-formance directed by SUSC's Fred C. Adams. "When 'Blithe Spirit' was seen here in the early 1960's it was presented in arena theater," Mclntyre says. ''Now it is being presented as a fullstage production, with a set by Timothy Bryson decorated in art mouveau and deco, with hidden passages and other surprises which add to the ghostley events happening on stage, such as mysteriously flying vases, which are being designed by special effects director-cast member Dale Young." "The Noel Coward comedy is just that, a hilariously funny story about a man who, during a seance, unwittingly brings back his first wife-now 'passed over' for seven years--and the trouble that results," Mclntyre says. Increased interest in the oceult, the supernatural and life after death has once again brought the conedy back into college and professional programs. "It's being brought back to the SUSC stage as part or our celebration of 'Twenty Years of Great Theater,' and because we think southern Utah audiences will enjoy seeing it again," Mclntyre says. Tickets are.now on slae for the campus community production. They can be obtained by calling the SUSC Box Office, 586-4411, extension ex-tension 234, from 1-5 p.m. weekdays and from 1 p.m. until curtain-time on days of performance. Mclntyre has used im-provisational im-provisational blocking for the . 1980 production of "Blithe Spirit." "This means that the actors discover movements as they develop their characters, contributing to the production in much the same way as do costumers and set designers," he says. "In this type of production, the' director acts as chairman of the board, that is he takes each individuals ideas then brings them together into a single concept." An outgrowth of this type |