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Show N . V --7 " v- &sfr ' v ,x . fc Kiddies prefer movie land over candyland BY MIKE WHITNEY Entertainment Editor Remember the old days when you went to the Saturday matinee and grooved on Walt Disney movies? Actually, if you were any kind of normal little kid what you grooved on was not the movie, but eating snow cones, pop corn, Sugar Daddies and Red Hots, making whistles out of empty Guess Whats? boxes and generally being as obnoxious as possible. It must mean something when a kiddie audience actually grooves on the show, which is what they did at the opening performance of "Homer Price," at Pioneer Memorial Memo-rial Theatre. Of course there were those among the audience who had more fun looking over the balcony bal-cony (several took a trip upstairs J. Geoffrey Sorensen, as Gabby, and Randy Jilligan , as the Sheriff, in "Homer Price " I just to take in the view), throwing paper airplanes made out of the programs and zapping whoever was in range with Milk Duds (in l fact I eot zapped myself). "The Case of the Sensational Scent." In both segments the standout performer was J. Geoffrey Geof-frey Sorensen. In "The Doughnuts," Sorensen able but scroungy bum, and was equally beautiful as the lovable but phoney radio announcer (Sorensen did such a good job with the announcer nart ; r... But for the most part, the kids in the audience were actually engrossed en-grossed in the adventures of Homer Price. All those connected with the production deserve a lot of credit for that. "Homer Price," which was adapted for the stage from Robert McCloskey's Homer Price Stories by Vern Adix, was presented in two parts: "The Doughnuts" and played Gabby, a scroungy bum who worked as a sandwich man, (which he made clear was not a man who sells : sandwiches, but a man who walks around with a sandwich sign advertising whatever what-ever needs to be advertised). In "The Case of the Sensational Scent," he played a radio announcer. an-nouncer. Did a beautiful job as the love rs' i m ui.1, i that he could probably take the ! place of Bob Ewbank on the Newlywed Game and nobody would notice). Craig Pease, as Homer Price, and Sharon Wolfe as Aroma, (a skunk), were also excellent. Even though "Homer Price" is intended for children, old timers (University students and such), may find it entertaining too. |
