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Show Theatre 138: actus Flower i "Cactus Flower", through all 15 scene changes, was a refreshing refresh-ing lift from the mucky 101' Saturday Sat-urday weather of Salt Lake City, (not to mention the luke warm humidity of the Democratic Convention.) Con-vention.) For this, Director Joseph Lam-bie Lam-bie should be commemmorated. As one viewer put it "I've never seen a bad play in Theatre 138. I've liked all that I have seen, but "Cactus Flower ds by far the best . . . ." BY JO ANN JACOBSEN Entertainment Writer If the luminous lights of t h e Academy Awards were scheduled to replace the faded flags of the Days of '47 at the end of the week, it would be Elaine Vetterli and Michael Sharp who would walk away with bronzed Oscars for their supporting, however minor, mi-nor, roles in Theatre 138's production produc-tion of "Cactus Flower." They stole the show. Vetterli, as the loud mouth-money woman, who realizes the importance of having supremely coiffured hair ' before "good teeth," and Sharp, as Senor Arturo Sanchez, the Latin Lat-in lover known in his own country coun-try as "El Bravo" and in the dentist dent-ist chair as "El Chicken," can take due credit for the almost capacity house. It was one of the largest opening night audiences of the season for Theatre 138. Bonnie Hencley, in all of h e r wide-eyed d a z z 1 e in portraying Toni just couldn't capture the spotlight ... Her downfall: Goldie Hahn, who originally made the role famous in the movies. Bonnie Bon-nie just didn't match the act of the micro-mini-skirted, dizzy, dingy, dumb-blonded, "Laugh-in"' Tegular, and the audience was waiting for her to do just that. Abe Burrows' comedy was more American than the tarnished Seagull Sea-gull Gate at the end of State Street. The sex revolution tramped tramp-ed underground all the way from Toni's bedroom where Dr. Julian Winston courted her, straight to the corner of the darkened bar where the voluptuous Boticelli's Springtime made mad passes at Harvey Greenfield. |