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Show 'You Can't Take It with You' Theater tickets on sale Layton, a sophomore theater major from Bountiful, is the stage manager. She recently appeared in "The Promised Valley" at the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City. "We've got a well-balanced well-balanced cast for the show, one with some of our experienced upper division students and some very talented freshmen," fresh-men," Mclntyre said. Penelope or "Penny" in the campus-community campus-community production is being played by junior Valeen Ogzewalla. Ogzewalla was named ' ,Best Actress of the Year for her performance as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard," and has appeared ap-peared as Aunt Em in "The Wiz" and as Berthe in "Pippin." She is from Centerville. Joan Myrberg is Alice. The SUSC senior is a College of Eastern Utah graduate, and has appeared ap-peared in "Gaslight" and "The New Moon." From West Valley City, Myrberg Myr-berg toured with "The Guardsman," the Pioneer State Memorial Theater traveling production which later became the matinee for the Utah Shakespearean Festival. David McMurtrie, a junior from Salt Lake City, is Tony in the campus-community production. He has worked as a technician and special effects designer for several SUSC plays, also apearing in "The Wiz" and "Pippin." Parry B. Stewart, as "Grandpa," is a junior theater arts major from Payson. He recently appeared in summer theater at Grand Lake, Colo., in "Fiddler on the Roof," "My Fair Lady" and "Count Dracula." Stewart has appeared in "The Cherry Orchard" and as the Emperor Charlemagne in "Pippin," "Pip-pin," a role netting him Best Supporting Actor for ' " 1980-81 at SUSC. Another veteran actor, Marc Deaton, Elko, is Kolenkov in the fall quarter play. Last seen at SUSC as. the Wiz in "The Wiz," Deaton his appeared in several major productions . in- eluding "Shenandoah,"' "An Evening ... with Samuel Beckett,". ','As You Like It," "The Cherry Orchard," and in the operas "Carmen" and "Gianni Schicchi." Other cast members include Todd S. Bryant, Las Vegas, as Paul; Van Cannon, Roy, as an FBI agent; Gregory D. Child, Bountiful, as Mr. Henderson. CEDAR CITY -Tickets went on sale ' Wednesday for "You Can't Take It with You," the first production in Southern Utah State College's 22nd season of campus-community theater. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the comedy classic is being directed by Gary M. Mclntyre, chairman of the SUSC Theater Department. Show-time is at 8 p.m. Oct. 28-31 and Nov. 11-14 in the studio theater. Tickets are available by calling the SUSC Box Office, 586-7876, from 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 1 p.m. until curtain-time curtain-time on days of performances. per-formances. Season tickets for the 1981-82 theater season will be on sale through Nov. 14 and include admission to the first performance. '"You Can't Take It with You' is a very funny play," Director Mclntyre said. "The play is about a man who becomes a nonconformist long before the Hippie movement and raises a family of nonconformists. The story unfolds when this 'crazy' family, the Sycamores, and a seemingly 'normal' family, the Kirbys, come together when their children fall in love." The Hart-Kaufman show has been staged twice before at SUSC, once as a faculty play and once as a community play. "If you have seen this crazy comedy, you'll want to see it again," Mclntyre said. "If you haven't, you won't want to miss it." Staged in the early 1950s, costumes are being designed by Sandra Stiglinski, SUSC costumer, with scenery and light design by Michael Sicotte, new technical director at the college. Connie Ann |