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Show Bennett will perform one-man Dickens show i - i iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiinimiilniiiiiiiiiiflnli Dickens is coming! Dickens is ' coming! This cry, heard often throughout the British Isles from 1858 to 1870, was the signal that Charles Dickens, that incomparable novelist and teller-of-tales, was coming to a local theater to read to the public. Dickens, an author without peer, was also an accomplished actor who made more money reading than writing. "Dickens is com ng!" meant that tonight there would be - stending-room-only so you'd better get there quickly or you wouldn't gft in. f 'A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens will be performed as a one-man-show by Michael Jesse Bennett Ben-nett on Wednesday, Dec. 20 through Saturday, Dec. 23 at the Uadies Literary Club, 850 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, at 8 p.m. A professional actor, Mr. Bennett has appeared in over 50 films including in-cluding the recent ABC Sunday Night Movie, "Blind Witness" with Victoria Principal; "A More Perfect Union" which had its world premier this November; and two (as yet unreleased) films, "It Almost Wasn't Christmas," scheduled for TV this ... holiday season, and "DMZ," to be released next spring. As part of the Bountiful Bicentennial celebration of the Constitution, Mr. Bennett appeared with Gordon Jump (of WKRP in Cincinnati fame) in an original play (later done in video) entitled "Two Good and Noble Men," featuring Mr. Jump as Ben Franklin and Mr. Bennett as Patrick Henry. Michael Jesse Bennett, who has often performed for local audiences, will recreate those memorable oc-' casions which set the standard for public entertainment in Victorian , times. Bennett's rapid changes in .vocal and facial expressions lead the imagination on a merry romp through Dickens' London, as more than a dozen characters interplay pon the stage of the mind. This is Bennett's 20th Anniversary Anniver-sary of reading Dickens, which is longer than Dickens read Dickens, and solidifies this performance tradition tra-dition as the second longest running Christmas theatrical entertainment in the intermountain area second only to Ballet West's "Nutcracker." For more information call 581-9787. MICHAEL JESSE BENNETT |