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Show New street theater to return the stage to common people By KIM FOLTZ Chronicle Staff Rising out of the filth, love, hate and hope of America's harlems, Haight Streets, back streets and alleys are the questions, the demands, the outcries and pleas the voice of the people the street theater. like the Creek theater, it is the theater of and for the people. It is Broadway stripped of the trappings trap-pings money buys, devoid of the diletantes, the pretentious, the esoteric. The Salt Lake Acting Company is a street theater. It is a group of young kids who haven't a lot of money, a dowager empress or institution backing them, just energy, drive and a trickle of talent. With experience, professionalism will grow. The company is moving their production of Salvation, a hit off-Broadway off-Broadway rock opera, in the spirit of Hair and Superstar, from their small stage at a local church to the University. Salvation will run on Thursday and Friday at 8:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium, tickets $1. Salvation is but one of a wave of "rock" musicals encompassing in one two hour swoop, sexual mores, drugs, Cod and ultimately, life. It's a difficult undertaking and the grandiose nature of the subjects does not lend itself to a brief look. The ultimate goal of Salvation is to get people to start living again and the cast has the energy to pull it off. The play drags for the first half, but a solo performance by Alzie Piggee breathes life into it carrying to the end. The play has a "haven't I heard this somewhere before" effect, most likely overexposure of the subject, but the music is very fine Larry Hellstrom gave a tine performance as the vehicle preacher and Ernie Erstpalmer had an amazingly good voice. |